Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Why sharpen?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:38:40 +0200
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I have always found sharpening necessary, whether working with scanned  
film or images from Canon, Olympus and various P&S cameras that my  
wife has had over the years. Only since buying the M8 in December have  
I been able to do without.

Nathan

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On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> Sincerely asked.....
>
> Why sharpen a digital shot?  What do you gain over the basic "  
> negative" (
> which could be RAW, Jpeg, TIFF or something else....) ?????
>
> I understand correcting some color qualities, and overall "blend" of  
> colors,
> and exposure.....
>
> But the idea of taking an image that was captured digitally and  
> putting it
> through a sharpening filter ( all the time) , somehow escapes  
> me.......
>
> Frank Filippone, digital-less.
> red735i at earthlink.net
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