roguewave Posted January 19, 2012 Share #1 Posted January 19, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I just downloaded the Free Trial of this Image Processing software. So far, I Love it. Has anyone else had experience with it? I'd love hear what your thoughts are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hermanp Posted January 19, 2012 Share #2 Posted January 19, 2012 I have been using DxO Optics Professional for many years, starting at version 3. In my experience it is a very nice program, once you have your presets worked out it is extremely easy to produce consistent high quality output. When you get exposure and white balance nailed in-camera further post processing is usually not needed. It is a pity they don't support Leica DNG files though. If they would I would ditch LightRoom immediately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblitz Posted January 19, 2012 Share #3 Posted January 19, 2012 from the ad it looks they do .... but taking your word for it, what is the work flow from m9 -- c1 to dxo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanp Posted January 19, 2012 Share #4 Posted January 19, 2012 DxO Optics Pro does not take DNG as input, but it can produce DNG output files. Currently DxO Optics Pro is not part of my workflow anymore. It was when I used Canon DSLR, but last year I sold my Canon gear and switched to a Leica M9. That also meant a major change in my workflow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share #5 Posted January 20, 2012 DxO Optics Pro does not take DNG as input, but it can produce DNG output files.Currently DxO Optics Pro is not part of my workflow anymore. It was when I used Canon DSLR, but last year I sold my Canon gear and switched to a Leica M9. That also meant a major change in my workflow. I wanted try this software because I have been searching for better results than what LR gives with Raw files where the ISO is 6400. Since these are NEF files from my Nikon D3, I thought I'd give it a whirl. I have only used it for one day, but the reluts do look promising. Adobe has a new version of LR that just might even better than DxO Optics Pro. I guess we will see in the next month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamiji Posted January 21, 2012 Share #6 Posted January 21, 2012 If you go to their site and select Leica, you find all the RAW/DNG features disabled, including DNG/TIFF 16 output. Quite disappointing. DxO Optics Pro - For your equipment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winmore Posted February 1, 2012 Share #7 Posted February 1, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hermanp is absolutely correct in "DxO Optics Pro does not take DNG as input, but it can produce DNG output files". It would seem to be not too difficult for DXO to be updated to take DNG as input - after all DNG was established to be a standard file. Maybe those of us who are still interested in DXO could submit requests to DXO to include the M9 as a supported camera. It would seem to be a wise business decision for DXO to reach out to the Leica community. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted February 1, 2012 Share #8 Posted February 1, 2012 Hermanp is absolutely correct in "DxO Optics Pro does not take DNG as input, but it can produce DNG output files". It would seem to be not too difficult for DXO to be updated to take DNG as input - after all DNG was established to be a standard file. Maybe those of us who are still interested in DXO could submit requests to DXO to include the M9 as a supported camera. It would seem to be a wise business decision for DXO to reach out to the Leica community. I think it would be a good idea for DXO to support Leica files. But it is not as simple as changing it to accept DNG as an input unless you only want to apply adjustments manually. Which would be a lot better than no support at all. However, the concept behind DXO is that it has "modules" that are specifically tailored to each camera and lens in order to use the EXIF information to apply correction automatically. DXO does let you save all of the manual settings to "presets" which can be applied to images to somewhat automate your custom tweaks... whether there is a specific module or not. I suggested to them that they also give the ability to allow a custom preset to be applied automatically to a specific lens/body combo. That would further automate the process. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winmore Posted February 2, 2012 Share #9 Posted February 2, 2012 I am not well informed about DXO process details. Given that the M9 already corrects for a broad range of lenses, I would be happy with just an M9 preset. That is, no specific reference to lens used. Manual correction would generally be minimal I would think. It seems that almost all other raw processors can handle dng files, why not DXO. Cheers. Ron Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanp Posted February 2, 2012 Share #10 Posted February 2, 2012 I am not well informed about DXO process details. Given that the M9 already corrects for a broad range of lenses, I would be happy with just an M9 preset. That is, no specific reference to lens used. Manual correction would generally be minimal I would think. It seems that almost all other raw processors can handle dng files, why not DXO. Cheers. Ron One of the DxO staff members explained on the DxO forum that there is no such thing as a "standard DNG". So they have to "profile" each camera model in order to decode / demosaic / denoise the raw information. They may decide to do so for the M9 if the effort is profitable. The Leica rangefinder market is peanuts compared to the DSLR and prosumer markets, so chances are very low that they will ever do this. Unless of course DxO management can be convinced there is a serious demand and they will sell enough packages to reach the break-even point. As every M9 comes with a license for a top-notch raw converter my gut feeling is that this is not very likely to take off. Moreover, I doubt if lens profiles for Leica lenses would do much good. They would remove the typical Leica rendering which is appreciated highly by many Leica afficionados. This would make the market even smaller.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted February 2, 2012 Share #11 Posted February 2, 2012 Moreover, I doubt if lens profiles for Leica lenses would do much good. They would remove the typical Leica rendering which is appreciated highly by many Leica afficionados. This would make the market even smaller.... Well all lenses have some distortion especially extreme wide angles. There have been some examples posted here of irregular distortion that would require a specific DXO type of correction module to eliminate it "perfectly." DXO corrects my 24-105 Canon zoom to have no detectible distortion so I can use it for architecture. Even with a correction module, something like vignetting compensation can be backed off or set to zero. I like to have a little vignetting sometimes. I don't know if the color shift with w/a lenses on an M9 is consistent enough but if so a correction module for the M9 could be extremely useful. The entire concept of DNG file format went out the door once each camera using it needed special support. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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