When using ACR one must apply luminance smoothing for higher ISO shots. ACR does not do this automatically for you.
For eg IMG 0087 is shot at ISO 1600 but luminance smoothing is 0, this is a bit like \"buying a new car and driving it with 0 air pressure in the tyres\".
The ACR sharpness also is set at the default 25 which is probably too high for an ISO 1600 image.
For ISO 1600 suggest you set LS at about 50 and sharpness at 10 see how the noise looks.
If you want to use default (easy conversions) your probably best off with the in camera JPG\'s. ACR gives a lot of power to fine tune and optimise RAW files of many many camera models but the defaults are just not that good.
Could you possibly share one of those RAW files and allow me a shot at processing it? I can receive email upto 10MB on mohammed at slt dot lk
BTW those shots of what looks to be a Jazz session look great! Jus gotta love that low DOF with the 85/1.2
Oct 11, 2008 at 02:53 AM
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