Nikon D200 sharpening

What is your favorite sharpen settings for Nikon D200 NEF files? If I used default settings, the pictures looks little bit soft for me.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Ahoj Radke,
If you are shooting RAW then you can ignore the image optimizations, sharpness, saturation, contrast, and WHITE BALANCE at the time of shooting. They have no effect on RAW files--you determine all those parameters when you develop the RAW. That's one of the best things about a RAW file--you can't mess it up (except exposre and focus) at the time of shooting.
That said, there are two places that you might be sharpening your image. The RAW Fine Tuning and the Sharpening control panel. Right now I would sugest make an album of about 6 images that have a variety of detail from fine detail to coarse detail. In the Real World Photoshop books this is called high-frequency or low-frequency images. Set the sharpining in the RAW Fine Tuning to a place that looks OK for all the images.
If you over sharpen here the fine detail will be wiped out, if you under sharpen the coarse detail will look soft. Save this as a new camera default setting. This will be applied to all images you import from a D200 camera.
The Sharpening adjustment panel (control + S) is where you can boost the sharpening on an image by image basis. Since the coarse-detail/low-frequency images probably look pretty good with just the sharpening from RAW Fine Tuning then this will probably be used mostly for fine-detail/high-frequency images to boost the sharpening a bit more.
This is how I am running my setup now for my D200 and D2x. Aperture is still so new that I may change this a bit as I learn better how the different tools interact.
Thomas

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