[glypticmax]

Thanks for posting that comparison Mihai.
It gets curiouser and curiouser.
I think Miles got it right when he said its also very dependent on the image content.
Atleast I know what to start testing now.
Day before yesterday, I had no clue about any of this stuff.
Thank you to everyone for all this fine information.
But I must admit both my brain cells are getting taxed.

[Mihai]

300%

It does great on the edges, compared to PS. It seems also it's better if most of the image is in focus, more sharp edges then. So for architecture stuff it looks good.

[glypticmax]

Well, *that's* interesting.......
I'd be doing jewelry renders and as I'm clueless for the most part about DOF, being in focus would be a plus. Keeping the sharpness of a faceted gem would be necessary.
Slides and large-ish prints for POP displays would be the goal. So if I could render at something under 2000xwhatever and blow them up to 4096x2732 for slides and get something clean, that could save a lot of render time.
I just did a silver cuff link to SL 13 at 4096x2732 and it took 19 hours+.
Cutting the render time down would be nice.

[Miles]

Useful exposition here:

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutori ... gement.htm

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutori ... lation.htm