chrism Posted November 27, 2006 Share #21 Posted November 27, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Brian, I am a new user of Raw Developer, and would like to thank you for your quick response with the curves for lightening some of the customised profiles. Has anyone sent you any files yet for the M8 with an IR cut (486) filter being used? Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 27, 2006 Posted November 27, 2006 Hi chrism, Take a look here Capture One LE vs. RAW Developer. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Guest guy_mancuso Posted November 27, 2006 Share #22 Posted November 27, 2006 I would send Brian a test target shot but i don't have the right test card i believe for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcolm Posted November 28, 2006 Share #23 Posted November 28, 2006 I am using a Mac, version 3.7.6. The Preferences box does not includes a caché preview options. Ruben, This may be a problem unique to Mac. I'm using [PC] Windows XP and Capture 1 LE bundled with the M8, updated to v. 3.7.6 from Phase One's web site. After opening C1 LE, and clicking on "File", then "Preferences", the "Preview Cache" dialog box is available. You can then toggle on/off your preferred preview cache preference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted November 28, 2006 Share #24 Posted November 28, 2006 I've been shooting tethered to Capture One Pro and also have been using it for editing and conversions for more than 3 years. This is not to take anything away from the other proram which I have not tried. Some of the features I like about C1 Pro may not be available in LE. (I haven't researched what is left out in LE other than tethered shooting and lack of the ability to click on the preview and instantly see a section of it at 100%) What some of you are missing is the benefit of the preview files. By generating screen res preview files, Capture One lets you quickly browse many images and rapidly see the effects of color and other adjustments. If you have Capture One Pro, you can click on part of the picture to judge sharpness almost instantly. Other programs may have to go back to the large raw file and do some processing. That would be much slower than using the C1 preview method. (Remember that some of the Phase One backs shoot at 39 M/pixels so the raw files are pretty big.) Additionally, once you adjust a bunch of images in Capture One, you don't have to actually run the regular conversion process in order to make screen res jpegs to send to clients for selection. Instead there is a "Quick Proof" feature that generates the smaller files very rapidly from the preview files. (Just a couple of seconds each.) And the files generated by Quick Proof will reflect whatever adjustments you made to the raw files. Capture One Pro also allows you to shoot tethered and and the previews are generated simultaneosly. Thus you can see a large image of each photo immediately after shooting it. And you can quickly flip through a lot of images checking expression, etc. There is a lot to Capture One and it proably took me several months of heavy use before I appreciated a lot of its design and features. (The ability to set up a "Move to" folder that allows you to quickly edit your photos and physically move the best to a special folder as you go.) That being said, I recently started doing most of my conversions with DxO. It automatically optimizes the lenses and the picture in ways I haven't seen in other software. For instance it can automatically hold shadow detail and it can also boost brightness and contrast in shadows wihtout them looking muddy. This seems to be able to get the complete dynamic range out of my photos. So I now use Capture One to shoot and edit my photos and make proof images. But I use DxO when I want to produce the best finished file. Maybe DxO will support the M8 before long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Griffith Posted November 28, 2006 Share #25 Posted November 28, 2006 Brian,I am a new user of Raw Developer, and would like to thank you for your quick response with the curves for lightening some of the customised profiles. Has anyone sent you any files yet for the M8 with an IR cut (486) filter being used? Chris No, I still haven't received any M8 color target files shot with an IR cut filter. To really generate a good ICC profile the color chart ideally should be something like a ColorCheckerSG, ColorCheckerDC, HCT (HutchColorTarget) or IT8, basically a well defined reference chart with more color patches than the basic 24 patch ColorChecker. The lighting should be full spectrum and absolutely as even as possible across the color target with no reflections present against a neutral background. If you have or are able to acquire such an image in DNG format let me know. Brian Griffith Iridient Digital Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrogers Posted November 28, 2006 Share #26 Posted November 28, 2006 Thanks much for the tone curves, Brian, they work very well (and you saved me the time to develop curves myself). And thanks for putting in extra effort to support the M8. I think Raw Developer gives you more than your money's worth just as a program---the great support makes it an even better deal. --clyde Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbtn Posted November 29, 2006 Share #27 Posted November 29, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Having tried many RAW developers (Lightroom, Aperture, Canons own), nothing comes close to the qualiy coming out of C1 Pro. The handling of colour noise in the higher ISO range is nothing short of astounding. Though I bounce the images into CS2 Photoshop after the conversion, I have never had to spend so little time and effort in there as the images come out as more than acceptable with very little effort. In my view, the only reason to stear clear of the bells and whistles of Aperture and Lightroom is the compromise in the most important area... image quality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcmrc Posted November 29, 2006 Share #28 Posted November 29, 2006 Just a quick note: at the moment C1 do not support (read) D-Lux 3 files, RAW Developer yes. I'm also impressed with the great support from Iridient Digital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drjon Posted November 29, 2006 Share #29 Posted November 29, 2006 I have used Brian's curves and Jamie's profiles in Raw Developer running on a Mac Pro and they work well; I am very pleased with the results so far - but I'm an amateur - in picture taking at least. I particularly like the very convenient user interface with RD, aqnd the ease with which you can switch between profiles - compared with C1 LE. With RD, I find you don't need to go into PS2 as much - as cropping, re-sizing and processing is also very easy to handle. The sharpening tools in RD are very smart. It also has some nice B&W conversion options Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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