Since there is the contrast threshold adjuster for sharpening, I use much more aggressive settings
But the threshold only works by masking away things that are soft. What if one could also mask away things that already are sharp enough? Would that be possible? Does it even make sense to do so?
Great idea about the x-trans 2-pass. The other day I was thinking that with this new compound demosaicing method, 3-pass sharpening for x-trans could be less useful (or at least, less often needed).
Info, maybe the 1-pass and 3-pass choices can be renamed to something like “1-pass (Markesteijn)” and “3-pass (Markesteijn)”. And 2-pass could be renamed “fast + 1-pass”, and 4-pass “fast + 3-pass”.
It could make sense if you are trying to even out the sharpness across the entire image. Usually the corners and edges are less sharp than the center. And most lenses are not radially symmetrical in sharpness either.
The other case for protecting edges that are already very sharp is to avoid the development of sharpening halos and/or clipping of the pixels along the edge.
Hy, im new here, im spanish and my english is poor, so ill try to explain as much as i can.
I´ve used RT since years, and i want to expose wich things are wrong and good to me as a all arround amateur photographer and if anyone who make rcd code could fix those things
For example, i ussually shot with my Pentax k50 and, while it has a directional OLPF, at high frequency lines or nyquist i see some horizontal bandings artifacts, even more visible when those bands are perpendicular with another one. I´ll try to upload images, from the test charts of imagingresource to compare both demosaicing methods