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What's the justification for copying Sharpening settings from the original raw to the denoised DNG?
The default sharpening amounts chosen by manufacturers, Adobe, and users were chosen based on original raw files. But Raw Details changes the image considerably -- it "produces crisp detail, improved color rendering, more accurate renditions of edges, and fewer artifacts."
It's not at all obvious why a setting based on a raw file would be appropriate for the output of Raw Details.
Here's an ISO 14,000 Nikon Z 9 image with:
left: camera default sharpening of 32 applied to the original raw
center: sharpening of 0 applied to the Denoise DNG
right: sharpening of 32 applied to the Denoise DNG
My preference is for denoise sharpening of 0, producing a pleasing balance of detail and noise reduction. Preferences vary, of course, but my question remains: What justifies copying the sharpening setting from the raw to the output of Raw Details/Denoise?
@johnrellis Nothing. It's probably an oversight. They did set any manual noise reduction settings to zero, and forgot/did not realise that sharpening also has an effect that is not the same. That is why I suggest to create a 'zero all' preset and use that. 'Reset' does not zero out everything, but sets it to the camera defaults.
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