For landscape images the goal (most of the time) is to have the image be as sharp as possible without creating artifacts or appearing to be over-sharpened. I spent several hours with a friend who is an outstanding landscape photographer and expert printer trying to determine optimal settings for particular cameras.
So far here are the recommended settings:
Fuji GFX 100 and 100S - Force Details 90 and Sharpening 150
Sony A7rV - Force Details 50 and Sharpening 125
For the GFX cameras, tested with a couple of different lenses (almost all of the lenses for this camera are outstanding) with ISO 100-400. For the Sony camera, tested with Sony 24-70mm GM II on an image taken at ISO 4000. I mention this to emphasize that these are not settings to try to rescue an image taken with a marginal lens.
I still have images taken with Canon 5DSr so I may test for that in the future. Comments and suggestions welcome. As always YMMV.
We tested a Canon 5DSr raw file using an image taken on a tripod with Canon 100-400 L IS II at 112 mm, ISO 400 (probably forgot to change ISO) and f/11. I chose this file because it was taken on a tripod whereas many of the other images I had were handheld.
Canon 5DSr - Force Details 75 and Sharpening 125
Note: some may want to decrease Force Details to 50 and Sharpening to 100 or 112 but I was happy with this setting
PS I did not expect the optimal Force Details setting to be over 50. Wondering if that was higher than expected due to diffraction at f/11. The image used for Sony A7rV was taken at f/8.
I tested another image taken with Sony A7RV and 24-70mm GM. In that image, the same settings were way too harsh. The defaults of Force Details 0 and Sharpening Standard (100) were much better. I think this is due to the fact that some of the near portions of the image were not in sharp focus and they suffered from the higher settings.
My conclusions:
The recommendations for these cameras are for images with a lot of high frequency detail and all of the image is in sharp focus. Thus I would consider these settings maximums that will work with some images but will be too high for other images. You have to adjust on a per image basis to get optimal detail and sharpness.
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(Canon, PL7+FP7+VP3 on Win 10 + GTX 1050ti)
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Umm, isn’t that how you have to approach the processing of any image?
I believe John is making reference to the fact that Pure Raw 5 has more than the very minimal drop down adjustments for these parameters in Pure Raw 4. Therefore, his comment is well said, and well taken. For me, the take away is that I can create presets per camera sensor, based on high frequency, and low frequency image types, and then “tune” from there.