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Hi,

I've been experimenting with fine B&W JPEG processing in LR to see if those could be used in some instances directly from camera, instead of DNG. I've observed that in the shadow areas there many pure white spots, which don't appear on DNG file, only visible in the JPEG. Is this normal or expected? What does it mean? Here are some examples attached

 

Thanks a lot!

Sergio

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The weird thing is that when I tried to use the iPhone marker in the photo app they seem to go away mostly. I had to do a screenshot manually of the photo outside Edit mode and here is what I see... little white points everywhere... 

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6 minutes ago, sergiomarried said:

Thanks for answering Peter, but I don’t get why dust spots would show in the JPEG and not in the RAW file... it doesn’t make sense to me

The jpeg is a further processed image and some areas may have been lightened a little in the process in the image engine.

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7 hours ago, jdlaing said:

The jpeg is a further processed image and some areas may have been lightened a little in the process in the image engine.

Doesn’t the same processing take place when the raw is displayed on the screen?

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4 hours ago, Exodies said:

Doesn’t the same processing take place when the raw is displayed on the screen?

No. The screen display is only a thumbnail sidecar file and not quite the full jpeg. 

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10 minutes ago, jdlaing said:

No. The screen display is only a thumbnail sidecar file and not quite the full jpeg. 

Not the camera screen, in Lightroom or whatever, when you show the picture in the whole window.

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It looks like JPG artefacts to me, enhanced by postprocessing.

Dust spots don't show up as white, as they block the light falling on the sensor.

Noise can be pushed into white speckles, but those would be sprinkled all over the image..

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On 6/25/2019 at 3:54 AM, Exodies said:

Not the camera screen, in Lightroom or whatever, when you show the picture in the whole window.

Lightroom processes RAW images with Adobe Camera Raw.   The resulting image is again further processed when exported as a jpeg.   The combination of those processes is not the same as the process the camera uses to create a jpeg.

That said I am confused somewhat by the initial post.  

 - fine B&W JPEG processing in LR

The image in lightroom is not JPEG until exported so I'm not quite sure what B&W JPEG processing is supposed to be.  What you see on your monitor while editing in Lightroom is NOT a jpeg.

I've observed that in the shadow areas there many pure white spots, which don't appear on DNG file, only visible in the JPEG

The JPEG produced by the camera or the JPEG produced by Lightroom for export?   If you mean the JPEG produced by the camera play with the camera JPEG settings of Sharpness, Saturation, and Contrast.

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