Focal Blade vs Focus Magic
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:14 am
I have been a user of Focal Blade for about 6 months now, and I have always extolled its virtues.
But recently I installed a demo version of Focus Magic, and tried it on a few sample image, just for sharpening. I was surprised,(and disapointed) to find that, on many images Focus Magic actually did a better job of sharpening than did Focal Blade.
I use a Canon 10D, and I find that for most images, a simple 2 pixel adjustment does as good a job as any tweaking I can come up with using Focal Blade. I should say that this is with low to moderate ISO images that don't require to much fuss with noise.
I don't know why I'm really posting this here except to let you know that I hope focal Blade can intoduce similar technology as Focus Magic.
But recently I installed a demo version of Focus Magic, and tried it on a few sample image, just for sharpening. I was surprised,(and disapointed) to find that, on many images Focus Magic actually did a better job of sharpening than did Focal Blade.
I use a Canon 10D, and I find that for most images, a simple 2 pixel adjustment does as good a job as any tweaking I can come up with using Focal Blade. I should say that this is with low to moderate ISO images that don't require to much fuss with noise.
I don't know why I'm really posting this here except to let you know that I hope focal Blade can intoduce similar technology as Focus Magic.