Kodak DCS600 manual Preparing for Sharpening in the DCS Host software

Sharpening

Your DCS 620, 620x, or 660 camera is equipped with an antialiasing filter, an optical filter that is mounted inside the camera in front of the electronic imager. This filter improves overall image quality at the expense of a small loss of sharpness in the image. In general, sharpen the image when the antialiasing filter is installed. There may be special situations where you will not want to sharpen, or where you want to remove the antialiasing filter.

When you use the DCS Host software with your camera, you can specify whether you want the image sharpened. To use the Sharpening feature, you may need to change settings on both your camera and in the DCS Host software.

☛The Sharpening feature does not work with the 660M cameras.

The antialiasing filter uses optical design to reduce or eliminate the high-frequency image patterning problems associated with single-shot digital capture and interpolation. The optical effect causes a small change in how lenses perform compared to cameras without the filter installed. The auto-focus capability adapts to the presence of the antialiasing filter and will compensate for any variations under normal use.

If you choose Manual focus, be advised that zoom lenses experiences a shift in the focus point as the focal length of the zoom is changed. If you zoom into your subject matter for close focus, and then zoom out to compose your image, the focus point will change. This is easily remedied by only focusing at the zoom setting that you will capture the image with, or reverting to auto-focus and allowing the focusing computer to accommodate the antialiasing filter’s optical effect.

Preparing for Sharpening in the DCS Host software

You can set a camera property that tells the DCS Host software whether sharpening should be applied. Refer to “Enabling Sharpening” on page 4-4.

For information on the Sharpening function, refer to the KODAK PROFESSIONAL DCS Host Software User’s Manual on the DCS Host Software CD included with your camera.

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