In camera sharpening or more USM?

[eos-rob-uk]

Just wondered what other people think about in camera sharpening?

i have had good results with sharpening set to full in camera and USM at:
100, 0.3 ,0 and also no extra in camera sharpening and USM of
up to 300, 0.3, 0.
I am leaning towards full in camera and less usm in photoshop

is it better to let Photoshop do all the work or is Canons in camera sharpening worth the bother? is it lens dependent.

i am not using "L" series lenes.

Canon 350D

rob B

[nitsch]

I don't think there is a 'right' way of doing these things, its all down to personal preference and how much post processing you are willing to do.

I prefer to have no sharpening in camera and do it all in Photoshop, that way I have complete control and can apply the appropriate degree of sharpening depending on the subject matter and the look I'm after.

[eos-rob-uk]

Good point, maybe i was just being lazy today, will go back and use no extra next time and see. i do find each image needs individual attention

thanks

[PacAce]

Personally, if I'm going to be doing USM during post processing, I'd rather do all my USM then instead of some in-camera and some post. The reason for this is that I noticed with some shots, especially of dark colored birds against a light or blue sky, there is a noticable halo around the subject when I use in-camera sharpening. So, now, I just leave the camera sharpening to 0 and then apply whatever USM is needed for the final image. I'll even use masking to prevent halos from forming around the subjects. On the other hand, if the halos are already there coming into post processing, it's hard to get rid of.

[Hellashot]

The way for best quality is to shoot raw. Apply no sharpening in the conversion. and if you save in a TIFF, save in an unsharpened format so you can sharpen it to suit your needs, i.e. crop or no crop which may require more or less sharpening. RAW is essentially a negative, much easier to work with than basically starting with a printed photo which is what a JPG is.

[Simon Spiers]

Sharpening on a 20D seems to make no differece at all to the end result:confused: