Enabling Sharpening
Some DCS 520 and 560 cameras are equipped with an antialiasing filter, an optical filter that is mounted inside the camera in front of the electronic imager. This filter eliminates unwanted color artifacts, and improves overall image quality at the expense of a small loss of sharpness. Depending on your subject, you may or may not want to allow sharpening when the image is processed. For example, you might want to sharpen an image of a piece of equipment, and might not want to sharpen a portrait or an image of clothing items.
☛Some DCS 520 cameras (base camera kits) use IR filters instead of antialiasing filters.
Sharpening can be applied in one of two places:
✔In the DCS Host Software during image processing.
✔On the camera when you process an image. Refer to “Processing Images” on page
This section describes the camera’s Sharpening property which determines whether sharpening is applied by the DCS Host Software’s “At Capture” setting in the Sharpen Image preference. If you set the Sharpen Images preference to “On” (or “Off”), images are sharpened (or not), regardless of the camera property setting. Refer to the DCS Host Software User’s manual.
☛The Sharpening property has no impact on whether sharpening is applied during processing in the camera.
The default Sharpening property setting is Yes for DCS 560 cameras and No for DCS 520 cameras. If you remove the antialiasing filter, set the Sharpening property to “Off”. Refer to “Removing, Cleaning, and
1 Select the Menu icon, then choose Properties from the dropdown menu. Refer to “Navigation Techniques” on page
2 Select Sharpening from the Properties menu.
The Sharpening screen appears.
3 Choose No or Yes.
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