Understood, but bokeh will exhibit itself similarly. Granted, looking at the difference between the f/16 and f/22 shots in the second post there is a significant lightening of the background, but there's nothing stated in the thread that states that these are straight out of camera edits, so it's possible that there was a subtle difference in what was applied in post (i.e. a little more boosting of shadows). Granted, this renders the comparisons a little less useful, so I would hope this isn't the case, but I would have expected to see a bigger difference between F/8 and f/16 if it was.
Same set of operations were applied to the whole set -
. Picture control : Vivid
. Contrast (under picture control : 2
. Noise reduction : Faster
. Exposure compensation : None
. Active D Lighting : Default
So all the six images are same as far as PP is concerned. For those interested, here is the XML file generated by Capture NX-D for each RAW file. It has all operations performed on the RAW file, and every time the software is opened it applies them.
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