Now I've give you the disclaimer, I want to say that I am really quite impressed with the new demosaic in Lightroom. I posted one example before where you could see the subtle effect that made the LR 3 images look more natural and allow for larger prints. Here is another example where instead of using the same sharpening settings, I tried to optimize both the LR 2 and the LR 3 version. It is not possible to get the LR 2 version to show anywhere near as much detail as the LR 3 version. The LR 3 version also looks far more natural and less fake. Surprisingly, you can even see the effect a little bit in the scaled down version that I use below as a placeholder. Full-res version in the link where you can really see the difference.
Of course, the left is LR 2 and the right LR 3
Edit: David Naylor comes to very similar conclusions on his blog.
Edit 2: This is the lower right corner of a frame shot using the ultracheap Nikon 18-55 mm kit lens. Parameters: Nikon D300, 18-55mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 200, f8, 1/60 s, handheld. It always amazes me how sharp this cheapo lens can be.
I'm uncertain if this does yeild more detail in the green needles (spruce?) or simply some better sharpening at about 0.3 pixel radius
ReplyDeleteThe sharpening on both images had the same radius of 0.8. The difference is really coming from the demosaic.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting! The new engine really is much better! Now if I only had bigger walls at home ... :)
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