What's "neutral" for detail level?

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FatBird19

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I'd like to avoid the video look but it still looks to soft. What's the neutral level for detail so I'm not taking anything away from the image resolution? 0? -2?
 
Are you asking at which point is all artificial edge sharpening disabled? It's way down, maybe -7 is actually "off", but -7 looks to me to be actively blurry. -5 starts to show a little bit of noticeable edge enhancement. But you'll probably find that -5 looks quite soft.
 
Barry_Green said:
Are you asking at which point is all artificial edge sharpening disabled? It's way down, maybe -7 is actually "off", but -7 looks to me to be actively blurry. -5 starts to show a little bit of noticeable edge enhancement. But you'll probably find that -5 looks quite soft.
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so -7 is what's actually recorded by the CCD? wow!

What do you guys think amkes the best filmic look?
 
Nancy Schreiber chose -7 for "November". I was a little surprised. Marcus at DVFilm also recommends somewhere around -5.

When we were shooting with the HD100, I was shocked at how much softer the image got when we turned detail "off". The difference between "minimum" and "off" was like night and day.
 
I've been using -7 for a while now, and now that you mention it I think maybe it's a little too soft, I need to run some comparison tests, but I basically blindly adopted Nancy's settings for my f5 preset.
 
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