Sharpness Feature With Nikon (Page 2): Manual foccusing is sharper then auto.

Delray

Manual foccusing is sharper then auto.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

camerapapi wrote:

I am not so sure that sharpening in camera is applied to RAW files. I do know that the RAW editor apply sharpness to the file. Many times I do not apply sharpness in post to my RAW file because the file is already sharp enough for my taste.
I seldom saturate my images except in rare cases, flowers tend to be one of those cases.

As the thread goes into detail about, the setting is not applied to the raw image. Your raw editor is applying a bank of settings, sharpening is probably one of them. This may or may not have anything to do with camera settings, but either way it can be undone.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

Delray wrote:

Manual foccusing is sharper then auto.

Not if the camera is calibrated correctly, which frankly, 99.9% are. Try manual focus on a fast moving subject 😊

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Delray wrote:

Manual foccusing is sharper then auto.

Not the subject of this post.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

ToBoldlyGo wrote:

Not if the camera is calibrated correctly, which frankly, 99.9% are. Try manual focus on a fast moving subject 😊

There are no more split image focusing screens in the viewfinder anymore. In my Nikon just a white dot appears when in focus. hard to watch the scene during sports and that white dot. Back during film you knew focus was there when the split image was aligned and you saw that while chasing a moving target.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

ToBoldlyGo wrote:

The problem with this setting is that when you change lenses, you can find your photos are over sharpened. It's fine if you're shooting in raw too, but once sharpened too much, a jpeg can be ruined. I tend to have my sharpening set low, so that jpegs aren't ruined when I need them, and I can edit raw as I like anyway.

My D7200 has setting for each lens in camera for adding a bit of extra focus. The D7200 knows which lens I have put on it and uses the settings I put into the camera. Since I shoot 2 Nikon D7200's Both cameras are set the same . It takes a bit of time to do it but worth it in the long run. As far as I know these setting are applied to the lens and motor drive not to the final file. It is a fine tune for lens focus and it affect the speed of the lens focusing. Too high a setting slows down the focus process and you may not be in focus when you trip the shutter because the motor has not caught up yet because you did not notice the white dot in the view finder when you hit the shutter button.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

drklrd wrote:

My D7200 has setting for each lens in camera for a... (show quote)

Do you know off hand the name of this setting? I've recently sold my D7200 after getting a D500 at a steal. No idea that this setting exists, unless you're talking about calibration.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

drklrd wrote:

There are no more split image focusing screens in the viewfinder anymore. In my Nikon just a white dot appears when in focus. hard to watch the scene during sports and that white dot. Back during film you knew focus was there when the split image was aligned and you saw that while chasing a moving target.

Hence manual focussing isn't always easy.

Petesfixit Loc: Houston Texas

I have installed a split image/microprism screen in my D7000. I can easily use manual lenses now despite severe nearsightedness. It does not affect AF or metering in any way. I highly recomend it. Perhaps a viewfinder magnifier is next.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

ToBoldlyGo wrote:

Do you know off hand the name of this setting? I've recently sold my D7200 after getting a D500 at a steal. No idea that this setting exists, unless you're talking about calibration.

Hard to find in the field manual book. But on camera do the following:
go to menu, setup menu, scroll to AF fine tune (second page scrolled downward), click right side circular switch surrounding the ok button to open AF fine tune, scroll down to listed values.

What This menu says on my D7200 is below

AF fine tune On/Off
Saved Value (mine says+1)
Default 0
Listed Saved Values 7/12 (meaning I have 7 lenses out of 12 possible listings)

Sometime hard to find on camera too especially if you did not know it existed. My D5200 I do not believe has this function. As for the D500 I have no idea if it exists there either.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

Petesfixit wrote:

I have installed a split image/microprism screen in my D7000. I can easily use manual lenses now despite severe nearsightedness. It does not affect AF or metering in any way. I highly recomend it. Perhaps a viewfinder magnifier is next.

Where did you find one? I imagine if the D7100 has one the D7200 should have one.All I have right now is the eye adjust normally available on camera.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

drklrd wrote:

Hard to find in the field manual book. But on came... (show quote)

I see. You're not adding extra focus, you're fine tuning the focus. It shouldn't affect the speed of your focussing though. Thanks for clarifying.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

ToBoldlyGo wrote:

I see. You're not adding extra focus, you're fine tuning the focus. It shouldn't affect the speed of your focussing though. Thanks for clarifying.

I have seen it affect the speed of the motor during sport shots. If the value goes more than a +2 the motor slows down during continuos focus.