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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 293500" data-attributes="member: 8705">It sounds like we use a similar technique in setting aperture and shutter and letting the ISO sort the rest. I will probably stick with 6400 as my top default unless I'm in a particular situation that warrants higher.Yes, when I say remove the sharpening I mean set the slider to zero. If you import a jpg it doesn't apply sharpening by default (Makes sense), but applies 25 for raw (Perhaps also makes sense). I should probably change the preset as I always end up reducing it to zero before processing. My logic is that I don't want to remove noise or sharpen an image that has already been sharpened.The other thing I've started doing is reducing the image size in Photoshop using that smart object technique that I mentioned previously. Apart from the speed and file size benefits it makes the images look better. If you start pixel peeping on a D800 image at full resolution it needs to be pretty good not to show any flaws. If I reduce the long edge to 3000 pixels for printing or 1600 for web it looks much sharper and less noisy. You can only do this in Lightroom by exporting and I like to view and sort from there.Jake, you have made my day anyway. It's lovely and sunny here in Manchester UK and it's not often we have the advantage there. Manchester is one of the wettest places in the UK!!</blockquote>