SX10 IS Adjust In-Camera Sharpening?

[exwintech]

> I'm not sure if it's just the old-age "dodderies" - but I can't find, in the Camera's Menus, or in the Manual, where to adjust Sharpening...

> Some Reviews mention "can adjust in-camera sharpening". My Fuji S2000HD, a camera rather inferior overall to the SX10, has Std, Hard, and Soft, Sharpen settings.

> I'd be surprised if the SX10 doesn't have a "sharpen / soften" adjustment. There again it doesn't have a couple of other things the S2000HD has - the ability to take a Flash and a Non-Flash shot in 1-click, and a Rapid-Burst Mode - 33 frames in 7-seconds at 5-Mpix.

> The Fuji S2k also "covers" the SX10's lack of the SX20's 1280 x 720 HD-Low video - it does 1280 x 720 in ISO-compliant MPEG4 / *.mp4 extension - vastly better than the SX20's huge lumpy files trapped in Apple's *.mov container.

> While the SX10 can do quite good 640 x 480 video - every file has to be converted from the clumsy oversized *.mov container, so it's far easier just to take the Fuji along instead.

> If that's "whinging" about the SX10 - so be it... It's an expensive P&S here in Sydney - AUD$600.00 - USD$510.00. (The SX20 IS is AUD$630.00 - USD$535.00.)

Regards, Dave.

[Immaculens]

Hmm... I don't see it either - I only see contrast adjustment.
Maybe the Canon Hack program for the SX10 allows it.

[Silverfox1]

> I'm not sure if it's just the old-age "dodderies" - but I can't find, in the Camera's Menus, or in the Manual, where to adjust Sharpening...

> Some Reviews mention "can adjust in-camera sharpening". My Fuji S2000HD, a camera rather inferior overall to the SX10, has Std, Hard, and Soft, Sharpen settings.

> I'd be surprised if the SX10 doesn't have a "sharpen / soften" adjustment. There again it doesn't have a couple of other things the S2000HD has - the ability to take a Flash and a Non-Flash shot in 1-click, and a Rapid-Burst Mode - 33 frames in 7-seconds at 5-Mpix.

> The Fuji S2k also "covers" the SX10's lack of the SX20's 1280 x 720 HD-Low video - it does 1280 x 720 in ISO-compliant MPEG4 / *.mp4 extension - vastly better than the SX20's huge lumpy files trapped in Apple's *.mov container.

> While the SX10 can do quite good 640 x 480 video - every file has to be converted from the clumsy oversized *.mov container, so it's far easier just to take the Fuji along instead.

> If that's "whinging" about the SX10 - so be it... It's an expensive P&S here in Sydney - AUD$600.00 - USD$510.00. (The SX20 IS is AUD$630.00 - USD$535.00.)

Regards, Dave.


Dave,

1.Turn your camera ON

2.While viewing the rear LCD click the "FUNC. SET" button in the center of the wheel.

3.The 2nd setting right below "AWB" is where you will click over with the right side of the wheel to the "C" for custom.

4. Now click on the "DISP." button and you will see the locations where you can increase or decrease the "Contrast", then click the bottom of the wheel and you will see "Sharpness" then click down and you will see "Saturation"

I have found that setting these to -1 Contrast, +2 Sharpening, 0 Saturation to work best for me.

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[Immaculens]

Silverfox1 Saves The Day! [thanks!]

[exwintech]

Silverfox1 - You're a genius! Many thanks indeed for that!

> It could hardly be in a more obscure place - under Colours > Custom.... But a device with as many adjustments as the SX10 had to have Sharpen - somewhere!

> Makes one wonder just what else it has hidden-away....

> As for the *.mov nonsense - yes, I use Convert MOV2AVI in Linux - runs just fine in Wine - including its cute "My Linux Desktop"!

> For User-level Cameras, the *.mov is a poor choice - it's in the midrange ones, too, not just SX10 / SX1 - and now the poor SX20 - could there be a worse setup than the H264 (good indeed by itself) - video trapped inside the crippling Apple *.mov container? This blows out the file-sizes on cards - and to download via Reader - to absurd sizes.

> That is, 15-minutes of SX10 640 x 480 *.mov - is larger than my Fuji's 15-minutes of Compliant MPEG4 1280 x 720 *.mp4. But remove the *.mov container with MOV2AVI (or WinFF - there's a Linux version - also have it in XP) - and it's a quarter of the size.

> There's no apparent good reason that Canon couldn't have just used the H264 *.avi format - it's a subset of the MPEG4 standards. Or Xvid4 - the best of the MPEG4 subsets.

> With the Fuji's 1280 x 720 *.mp4 - that converts easily with Avidemux to *mpeg(2) - which is editable, then just convert that to the VOBs, *.ifos, etc, to write to DVD - K3b in Linux, Roxio or Ashampoo in XP. Or convert to Xvid4 - using the Filters-etc in Avidemux - and it runs well fullscreen on PC or Player (Players marked as playing Divx will play Xvid.)

> The Canon Software CD does have a "MOV Decoder" on it - but (in XP) - doesn't seem to install with the Programs. A "tweak" needed, perhaps?

> Thanks again - that "Sharpen" thing had me worried...!

Regards, Dave.