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Enabling Sharpening
DCS 620, 620x, and 660 cameras are equipped with an antialiasing filter, an optical filter
that is mounted inside the camera in front of the electronic imager. This filter eliminates
unwanted color artifacts, and improves overall image quality at the expense of a small loss
of sharpness. Depending on your subject, you may or may not want to allow sharpening
when the image is processed. For example, you might want to sharpen an image of a piece
of equipment, and might not want to sharpen a portrait or an image of clothing items.
☛ The DCS 660M and some DCS 620 cameras (base camera kit) use IR filters instead
of antialiasing filters.
Sharpening can be applied in one of two places:
✔ In the DCS Host software during image processing.
✔ On the camera when you process an image. Refer to “Changing Processing
Settings” on page 6-5.
This section describes your camera’s Sharpening property which determines whether
sharpening is applied by the DCS Host software’s “At Capture” setting in the Sharpen
Image preference. (If you set the Sharpen Images preference to “On” (or “Off”), images
are sharpened (or not), regardless of the camera property setting. Refer to the DCS Host
Software User’s manual.
☛ The Sharpening property has no impact on whether sharpening is applied during
processing in the camera.
The default Sharpening property setting is Yes for DCS 660 cameras and No for DCS 620
and 620x cameras. (The property is not available for on DCS 660M cameras.) If you
remove the antialiasing filter, you need to set the Sharpening property to “Off”. Refer to
“Anti-aliasing Filter and IR Filter” on page 16-3.
1 Select the Menu icon, then
choose Properties from the
dropdown menu. Refer to
“Navigation Techniques” on
page 2-14.
2 Select Sharpening from the
Properties menu.
The Sharpening screen appears.
3 Choose No or Yes.