Re: Fun with the A7/7R
I have done whatever tests I can to see if IDC gives fewer jaggies, and I'm afraid I can't reach a conclusion: sharpening at 0 in IDC is not zero, it is quite aggressive and is nasty, much sharper than my LR setting of 60/0.7/70/20 in LR and much blunter. Sharpening at -100 is way softer than LR with all sharpening off. Given the different parameters within any sharpening choice, it is simply not possible AFAIK to start with a matched base level of sharpening in order to compare jaggies across the two converters. IDC seems to have fewer jaggies it's true, but the NR is so nasty that it is just robbing the file of detail.
I have developed files in IDC a load of different ways and exported them as 16 bit TIFF to LR in order to try and get an unsharpened file to compare and I can't make it happen!
Whether IDC is calming the jaggies by throwing away the data, or whether it does de-mosaic the files better remains to be seen but is to me academic. I don't like what it does and I don't use it...