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Originally Posted by Jamie Roberts
It's not heresy at all--lots of people use and swear by Raw Developer. Lots of people use C1.
Personally, I prefer the softness of the sharpening in C1. I have my own output-specific sharpening workflow that doesn't hold up as well with output from other converters.
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I didn't realize RawDev was Mac only - sorry about that oversight.
In fact, I had no idea people were using it much at all - which is why I thought I'd write about it here, as I see so many questions and problems posted by people who seem to have trouble with C1, for various reasons.
I'd certainly say that C1 has a far greater wealth of tools and settings, and is itself vastly superior in its renditions of M8 files to LR and even Aperture, but I have to say that seeing all my captures in RawDev over the last day has given me an enormous boost of enthusiasm for the camera - and I thought it was worth sharing.
Incidentally, as you know RD has a comprehensive choice of sharpening algorithms (including 'none', of course). My defaults were something called 'R-L Deconvolution' which (to quote a small part of the description of this technique in the manual):
"...uses Richardson-Lucy deconvolution and is more an image restoration/reconstruction or "refocusing" technique compared to the other 3 options which are more traditional edge contrast enhancing filters... Almost all digital cameras use an anti-aliasing filter which has the effect of slightly blurring the image. Richardson-Lucy in theory is well suited to undoing the effects of such a filter."
The best part about digital is that no-one is forced to use their 'local' developer anymore - so we can all go out and find the one that suits us best!
Mani