G3 Custom Settings...

[siriuspfl]

Do many of the G3 users on this group find the need to custom set:

1) Contrast
2) Sharpness
3) Saturation

I had to do this initially on another camera I had and it was the consensus this other camera needed it... how bout the G3?

Thank you...

Paul

[hypokondriak]

i've been recently using the unsharpen mask settings of 10-20%, 60, 0 in photoshop on a lot of my photos to clear that lens "haze"

unsharpen mask of 150%, 0.3-1.0, 3 also can do some nice sharpening if you don't like the "softer" look of the g3 pics.

also, i typically toy with the levels, contrast, or color in certain situations.

that's about it for the most part... but yeah, you can make the g3's already great pics better. i think all photographers should do post processing to some extent... regardless of camera.

[siriuspfl]

Thanks... I was aware of these in PS but I am wondering who changes things in camera first a lot?

[gcogger]

I either reduce contrast/saturation to -1, or shoot on the 'Neutral' setting. If not, I find the images to be oversaturated and unrealistic - although no more (and perhaps less) than on other cameras. While I accept that this is what many people like to see, I believe that you should start with the most accurate photo possible and post-process if you want more 'punch'.

[marcel wouters]

If you shoot raw and use post processing it would be better to keep all these parameter low!

You could always sharpen, but remove a sharpen artefact (or noise) is much more difficult or not possible!

Low contrast and saturation helps to prevent burning (lost) highlights.

Low contrast prevent lost of shadows details.

[Basiltoo]

Plenty of good advice above...

IMHO G3 pictures are oversaturated at the normal setting (especially greens) and to my eye the lower saturation setting seems about right.

*IF* you are shooting jpegs and do not intend to do any post processing then increase the sharpness setting in the camera. In this situation I have found that the quality of the in-camera sharpening cannot be matched in software (someone, please prove me wrong on this as I find it most frustrating!). Paradoxically sharpening destroys detail so only sharpen in-camera if you do not intend to edit the picture later.

By shooting in RAW you get the best of all worlds but you do have more work ;)

[siriuspfl]

Good advice!

[marcel wouters]

Baz,
You're right saying that in jpeg the "in camera sharpen"
is a good practice. it's much more difficult to sharpen a jpeg pic than a raw pic without generating artefacts.
The in camera sharpen acts as a blur remover for the "in camera low pass filter" and let's you the place to do a final output sharpen.
In raw mode it's always better to keep the camera sharpening to the lowest mode as the post process sharpening is always better (should be) but at an extra work cost.

[PFlor]

basiltoo wrote:
*IF* you are shooting jpegs and do not intend to do any post processing then increase the sharpness setting in the camera. In this situation I have found that the quality of the in-camera sharpening cannot be matched in software (someone, please prove me wrong on this as I find it most frustrating!). Paradoxically sharpening destroys detail so only sharpen in-camera if you do not intend to edit the picture later.
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So are you saying keep the sharpness setting at +1 or at 0? I usually keep mine at -1 but I shoot in RAW mode most of the time and sharpen in Photoshop later. I have to play around with this setting with jpegs.