Export with Preset DNG blurry

[tmalinski]

Lightroom Classic ver 15
Helicon Focus ver 8.3.8
Adobe DNG ver 18.0.0.2398

In Lightroom I select my Raw images, Then file Export with preset DNG. Helicon launches ok, I select Option B and render. The preview of the output file looks perfect. But when I save as DNG the image is Blurry / Out of Focus. When I save the exact same output as TIF it is sharp and works fine. I don't know which of the three software's may be causing this, I upgraded all three to the versions as show above and then I noticed this issue. Attached is a snapshot of my TIF and DNG showing the problem. The actual TIF and DNG files are too large to attach

[Catherine]

Hello,

It can't be Helicon Focus doing it. Inspect your saved .dng result with some other software (not Lightroom).
Maybe you have edits applied to this stack in Lightroom, then the imported file gets the same edits.