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But Howard that is not going to work as some of the users are not going to post an unsharp, I doubt that you will be able to get Ann, Fred or Peter to post a truly unsharpened version version of their images. They do not consider their default sharpening settings as sharpening.

Well maybe Peter will but Fred won't. He once posted some portraits he did and stated there was absolutely no sharpening and after questioning there had been considerable sharpening but he did not consider that any but normal processing.

If you look at his work and Ann's you will see they always sharpen but as Ann indicates this is just processing to her and there really is no sharpening.

I sent her a portrait I did with the predecessor of the 105mm Micro and she sent it make showing how well it sharpened up she was impressed with the lenses sharp focus.

I thought she did way too much and it was not at all necessary, but to her it was just normal processing.

So I do not think it will be possible to get everyone to agree to show a completely unsharpened version of the file.

There was a posting of some images or macro work which I thought a bit vulgar and one of the reasons besides the overly saturated color was that they had all used sharpening software to make them look kind of plastic. A bit unreal.

I do not think you can get the results you would want from such a test, it would be nice but you never see this anywhere and probably this is one of the reasons.

My lens is adequate if not perfect and I guess Ann's lens is adequate if not perfect as well.