Hmm… Not quite. ‘Unsharp Mask’ or ‘USM’ in Photoshop is actually a kind of sharpening. Because of how they actually record images all standard digital cameras inherently produce soft images so there’s no need to ‘unsharpen’ the images, they’re unsharp when they’re created and processing sorts that out.

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actualy what unsharp does is unsharpen but the effect is to sharpen

as pixels are square it actualy rounds the corners off in effect making them closer to the round

in effect it is done by filling in diagonals between pixels with the colours and values from adjoining pixels

thus when you come to sharpening it gives smoother sharpening

therefore every image from every digital camera bennefits from unsharpening then sharpening

http://bythom.com/sharpening.htm

It’s a crap lens offered as the entry level all rounder. Probably made in China under licence hence the cheapness of the build.
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wrong nikons entry level isn’t as expensive as china it’s thrown together in thailand !!

we all know processing tricks a little known one is to unsharpen before sharpening in photoshop

i have had experience of many lenses from mamiya medium format , old film slrs , and digital compacts/bridge and dslr

and can recognise an underperforming lens !!

the only ones that will probably use the facilities afterwards will probably be criminals

making it harder for our fat police officers to catch them !!

well those that are still in a job anyway !!

fuji s3000 3mp

fuji s8000 8mp you can go even further into this image and see all the squashed flies on the screens

nikon 18 55 kit lens

you will notice it is a softer image and it is consistent ( so much so i eventualy gave up all hope and it rarely goes on the camera!!)

as opposed to the tamron 70 300 macro

but for my personal bucks here the fuji bridge wins on all points over the nikon dslr !!

a reason why i will pick up the fuji just as much as the nikon dslr!

PMN
And, I would add that the lenses on a Bridge are sometimes significantly better than the stock kit sold with a DSLR. The stock Canon lens on my 450D is rubbish. Rubbish build and rubbish results. However it’s good enough for the family shots.

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not often i agree with you but you are right !!

the main point is in the right area !!

one of the best heli shots i took for detail colour and clarity came from my fuji s8000 bridge camera

the lens used at a mid focal leangth pi**ed all over my nikon kit lens in all areas

and even though i have shot many hundreds at my local heli pad on my dslr there are none that come close to that one

to the point if i can avoid it the nikon kit lens stays in my bag and i use a tamron lens

the oly fault i can give fuji bridge camera lenses is at extreeme end of telephoto you start to get blue fringeing

but an intresting foot note

i have won and been placed in many photo comps and boy does it pi*s off the mega bucks dslr boys when you reveal the shot was taken on fujis worst 3mp bridge camera baught for 30 quid !!:)

is zion the same word in iranian ??

i’d boycot it because the logo looked like it was designed by an eppileptic dyslexic !

wonder if mexico are comming after top gear ??

i think it is an easy cop out rather than saying they don’t like us !!

so is it actualy inverted racism ??

april 19th and june 28th 2011 will be last planned shuttle launches

Another point to ponder whilst on the subject of Willis, havn’t we just launched the space shuttle for the last time, so even that could not be considered now.

Lincoln .7

i think there are two more , wasn’t it the last launch of discovery ??