40d Sharpness Setting?

40ds owners do you leave "sharpness" at factory setting or prefer to adjust that setting up or down?

leave it alone and adjust sharpness in PS.

glowie wrote in post #4172835
leave it alone and adjust sharpness in PS.

Why not let the camera help reduce the post processing time?

For landscape i use about 4-5 for portraits about 3-4.

I've created a custom picture style, based on the "Neutral" picture style, but with sharpness setting at 3, as I generally find I'm setting the sharpening to at least 3 in DPP for Raw images before conversion to JPEG in PS.

Southswede wrote in post #4172867
Why not let the camera help reduce the post processing time?

One reason is that if you shoot RAW, you have to do it in PP anyway.
Another is that you have much greater control, including converting to Lab and only sharpening the luminance channel. That is said to avoid (or at least reduce the impact of) some colour artefacts. Works for me.

I shoot in the raw so i leave all jpeg settings to factory defaults.

xarqi wrote in post #4175634
One reason is that if you shoot RAW, you have to do it in PP anyway.
Another is that you have much greater control, including converting to Lab and only sharpening the luminance channel. That is said to avoid (or at least reduce the impact of) some colour artefacts. Works for me.

What if the OP isn't shooting RAW? And what if they don't want to shoot RAW? Then what should they adjust the settings to?

If you are not shooting RAW and you are trying to do little PP, then sharpness of +3 can be helpful. Kinda a personal preference though. Try out different settings and see what you like best.

I shoot RAW and I have in-camera sharpening set to maximum to better evaluate achieved focus from the JPG picture displayed on the LCD screen.

This is on 30D.

xarqi wrote in post #4175634
One reason is that if you shoot RAW, you have to do it in PP anyway.
Another is that you have much greater control, including converting to Lab and only sharpening the luminance channel. That is said to avoid (or at least reduce the impact of) some colour artefacts. Works for me.

Just alone the sharpening in lab mode (lightness channel) is worth the trouble.

agedbriar wrote in post #4182086
I shoot RAW and I have in-camera sharpening set to maximum to better evaluate achieved focus from the JPG picture displayed on the LCD screen.

This is on 30D.

Excellent tip! I do the same...

agedbriar wrote in post #4182086
I shoot RAW and I have in-camera sharpening set to maximum to better evaluate achieved focus from the JPG picture displayed on the LCD screen.

This is on 30D.

Good idea - I'll give that a go too.

agedbriar wrote in post #4182086
I shoot RAW and I have in-camera sharpening set to maximum to better evaluate achieved focus from the JPG picture displayed on the LCD screen.

This is on 30D.

Now there's a great idea I'm going to adopt.

Where would one change this option in the 40D?