Most of my pics are family events, vacation shots, landscape, and sports (cycling).


I've modified thepicture style I use on my 50D to boost the sharpness from the default value of 3 to a 5 (in-camera setting maxs out at 7) and take most of my pics at at sRAW1 + JPEG. I also like the results I get from maxing out the sharpness to 10 in DPP during post-processing. Why isn't this the default? When I'm reviewing my pics, the first thing I look at is sharpness (I guess to ensure focus was good enough to make them keepers). I know I shouldn't confuse sharpness with focus, butexcept for portraits, why not max out sharpness all of the time? Do you find yourself boosting sharpness more often than not?