Hi Cotty, on 27 Feb 04 you wrote in pentax.list:
>On 27/2/04, DOCTOR HEIKO disgorged: LOL >>Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens >>less than Canon's normal or even low setting. >Interesting. Do you have any references to substantiate this? Hm, I don't have a D60 to compare ;-) but I remember to have read something like taht in the web. At least Phil Askey writes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Image softness One niggle however must be the soft appearance of images from the camera, this I put down to two distinct areas. Firstly the lack of pin- sharp crispness (even when deliberately stopping down the lens) reminds me of the results we got from Nikon's D100 (which uses the same sensor). Secondly it does look to me as though Pentax has chosen to take a hands- off approach when it comes to sharpening, choosing to avoid sharpening artifacts and enhanced noise by keeping the in-camera sharpening algorithms to a lower level than we are perhaps used to seeing. I would have preferred Pentax to offer more latitude of adjustment of the in- camera sharpening. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxistd/page15.asp) Michael Reichmann says: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sharpening Issue In late October as this is being written, and during the few weeks that the *ist D has been on the market, there has been discussion on some Net discussion forums about the camera's images being "soft". Nonsense. Pentax has wisely avoided oversharpening images in the camera. When properly sharpened they leave nothing to be desired. Once again beginners and the uninformed are confusing resolution with sharpening. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax-istd.shtml) Steve writes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The in-camera image sharpening is very low on the "normal" setting and only just a little bit sharper when the "hard" setting is used. For my tastes I ended up using a good amount of Photoshop's USM (unsharp mask) to my final images to get the look I was used to from my Nikon D100. I imagine that Pentax has kept the in-camera sharpening low to help reduce the apparent image noise, especially in the lower contrast shadow areas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/istd_pg7.html) But again - this is no direct comparison. I think it would be the best, if yousent me your D60 and I will make some comparisons ;-) Cheers, Heiko
