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I use to have this problem with Lightroom V2. Before I used to lose sharpness in all my pictures, but now that I exported it while constraining the image size to around 1000x1000 pixels, the sharpness has improved. Any thoughts on why this would happen? I'm fairly new to digital photography...

My workflow: small RAW -> direct transfer to Lightroom 2 -> adjustments -> Export as .jpeg, or .tiff (w/o the constrictions on pixel dimensions, even the .tiff file was losing sharpness (.tiff is lossless right?))

Thoughts on one of my first pictures with my canon 50D?
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>> Anonymous
no idea, but nice picture
>> Anonymous
neat picture, but the girl is almost distracting, I keep wanting to see her face, I actually kinda like that, draws you in
>> Anonymous
Two Small Raw Formats - who cares?

You'd have to be a real idiot to care about smaller pixel size raw files. These give you lower resolution with larger file sizes than JPG!

Canon calls these dopey things "sRAW," and in the 50D, sRAW1 and sRAW2.

sRAW1 is 7.1 megapixels with a file size that is still at least 75% the size of a bloated regular raw image.

In sRAW2, resolution is piddly 3.8 megapixels, but still half the file size of a huge raw image.

Sadly, Canon lets idiots be idiots and use these settings even in the Basic Zone dummy settings. Back in the good old days, Canon set basic settings so people couldn't screw them up this way.

To keep my hate mail files manageable, I will add that these sRAW formats exist not for photographers, but for computer nerds who prefer jacking around on their computers to getting outdoors and actually photographing. sRAW files are fatter than JPGs, but have even lower resolution.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>283849
RAW has like 2x the dynamic range of jpeg.
>> Anonymous
>>283735
have you tried taking a full sized raw, scaling it down, and comparing it vs a 'smaller' raw?

what do you mean when you say 'contrain' to 1000x1000 pixels? did you resize or did you crop?

without know what canon's methodology is behind producing shrunken raws, all people can do is throw around speculation. if canon turns off select photosensors over the entire ccd (one method) then that may 'hypothetically' decrease noise.

Sacrificing image quality (producing noise) for megapixels has been a major argument canon veterans have been making over the past few years. if these smaller raws are a result of those claims, then it's possible for your pictures to appear clearer with smaller produced raws.
>> Anonymous
>>283863
We are talking about sRAW here.
>> Anonymous
export with export sharpening for screen set to highest
>> Geoff !HHZjY4djcE
>>283849
are you Ken Rockwell?
>> Anonymous
>>283849

hahahah your a retard