I'm bringing this thread back as, yesterday, I expressed my concerns about my Olympus 12-40 F2.8 on the MicroFourThirds section of GetDPI. I felt it was soft.
I'd done a session using two 1.2 primes on Sunday afternoon and an earlier one in the morning with the zoom. I won't bore you with the different circumstances but I did feel the zoom files should have been sharper as they were taken in bright sunny weather. I then looked at a zoom shoot I did a month ago in similar weather and again I felt it was a bit soft.
Something made me wonder whether the softness was coming in from the Qimage RAW processing. On quite a few of the shots the ASA was set at 200 but the RAW refine was 'pushing' me to 410 and over. My default is to have ANR ticked and my threshold for Noise Reduction is 400 - so some reduction was being applied.
I went back to several of the files and re-converted the RAW files with the ANR box unticked. Yes, they are sharper before I apply any DFS sharpening.
I am not sure what to do now. Certainly the 12-40 is probably OK at least so that worry has gone for the moment. With regard to using QU maybe I start working with the ANR box unticked. I'm using the Olympus e-m5 mk 2. Maybe the noise reduction default is coming in too soon, but I am not sure how I change that.
For the GETdpi troops I have loaded a few RAWs as they wanted to have a fiddle with them. They are here if anyone wants to see the ones that were worrying me.
https://we.tl/t-G64BmpciQPAs always any advice and/or ideas are welcome.
Tony