7D and Lightroom 4 settings starting point question?

Hi All

I recently got the 7D and have a learning curve to handle the RAWs compared the old 40D.

Now with the 40D the Capture Sharpening defaults seemed fine and the Noise equally so but the 7D is a different kettle of fish

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I know only a day gone by but thought surely there were other 7D users using LR4 who would have covered this aspect and could share

Here is a bump for you because i am curious as well. I found some threads a long time ago that dealt with this a little bit but cant seem to dig them up.

For what its worth I have a 7d and right now my sharpening default amount is set to 45.

This is where I start.

http://www.phototestce​nter.com …non_7d__raw_set​tings.html

I have my sharpening set to 55 typically. NR I set manually and will never never ever go above 30 for NR and thats pushing it alot. Even with my 60D and ISO 6400 I leave it around 25-30 and ISO 1600 I'm usually around 15.

I just hate the detail that gets washed out with the NR and once you resize your image most of it goes away anyway.

DDL wrote in post #14615555
This is where I start.

http://www.phototestce​nter.com …non_7d__raw_set​tings.html

Kinda hard to relate seriously to someone who makes recommendations for LR sharpening and ignores two out of the four sliders. Or are they supposed to be zeroed, which will mean losing the two features that makes LR sharpening special, deconvolution (Smart) / USM blending and edge masking.

tzalman wrote in post #14615680
Kinda hard to relate seriously to someone who makes recommendations for LR sharpening and ignores two out of the four sliders. Or are they supposed to be zeroed, which will mean losing the two features that makes LR sharpening special, deconvolution (Smart) / USM blending and edge masking.

He mentions those settings in the text above the table; not sure what they should be for LR4.

Can't remember the exact numbers offhand, but I basically used to use the defaults on my old 450D in terms of capture sharpening (maybe 25-ish?), but with the 7D I push up the capture sharpening to maybe 50-ish, and apply that preset on ingest automatically.

I also have a bunch of NR presets for different ISO that I eyeballed.

The reference is to the Detail sliders in NR, not Sharpening.

Sharpening

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=KXtTeixz92A

Hi guys

Many thanks for insight, feedback and links/pointers. All will aid my understanding to get the best out of my 7D RAWs