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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stmv" data-source="post: 794980" data-attributes="member: 10038">(Looks like you have to keep adding posts, versus adding comments)Equipment is improving each generation, so, when I started in digital about 10 years ago, I found myself applying sharpening on just about every photo using the unmask filter (such a strange name), and learned methods to avoid the effects, and of course, there is the chasing the tail effect, sharpen, add noise, remove noise, loose sharpness, try to put back in some additional sharpness. etc. What has been happening is that the sensors are picking up more and more details, so that with each generation of cameras, the need for sharpening is being reduced. As the cameras reach the 16-40 Meg regions, for so many shots, the sharpness is already fine for web viewing, Only the lightest of sharpening should be required (and that is just to counter the Alias filter on top of the sensor). If the sharpening is down in the Raw editor, that should be all that is required.  It all comes down to establishing your focal plane when taking the shot. When I have time, I like using the center point focus and moving it around with the control to the exact spot in the viewer that I want to plane to orginate, and than determine the DOF for foreground and background range. If in a hurry, I switch back to full array, but look at where the camera is placing the boxes, and sometimes by just shifting the camera a hair, the boxes will jump to the spot I want the focal plane to be, which is faster than the single point focus. we do get used to autofocus, I was out yesterday with a couple of manual primes (20, 28) and forgot to focus the first 2 shots!</blockquote>

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