The Best Raw Converter for D2

[kamilsukun]

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What is the best RAW converter for D2? SilverFast or Capture 1? Or, is Adobe Raw Converter enough?

 

I wonder if anyone found a chance to compare.

 

Regards,

Kamil Sukun

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[robert_parker]

Kamil

 

Try

 

http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/8775-capture-1-sharpening.html

 

http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/8777-d-lux-3-software-bundle.html

 

for starters - there's a lot of information about on the forum

[cboudier]

C1 does not recognise D2

 

Lightroom and Raw Shooter (Premium or Essential) do a very good job with the D2.

Silkypix and Lightzone are also working fine.

Of course, Photoshop (CS or Elements) works fine too.

 

Best solution for you is to try and choose according to your taste, because the results and the ergonomics are different.

[cbretteville]

Rawshooter premium, no contest IMHO. I'm really hoping that enough of RSP carries over to Lightroom that it makes a difference over what you get out of D2 files with ACR.

 

- Carl

[spylaw4]

Depends on whether you are on PC or Mac, AFAIK Rawshooter is PC only. A number of the allegedly better converters are not usable on Mac. Personally I have no problem with Lightroom, at least until C1 is able to handle D2 or even D3!

I have also tried RAW developer but there are some difficulties in ease of use IMO.

[Guest stnami]

Raw Developer does justice to the D2 colour rendition especially the warm tones. If you have time and don't mind listening to good music and viewing a screen its great. If you are impatient buy another camera

[petermcwerner]

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Raw Developer does justice to the D2 colour rendition especially the warm tones. If you have time and don't mind listening to good music and viewing a screen its great. If you are impatient buy another camera

Silkypix does a very good job - IMHO much better than Photoshop - and is quite fast

[Guest stnami]

The advantage of Raw Developer (mac only) over photoshop and the others is the curves are available in LAB colour space, thus we can separate luminousity from colour with ease

[spylaw4]

Raw Developer does justice to the D2 colour rendition especially the warm tones. If you have time and don't mind listening to good music and viewing a screen its great. If you are impatient buy another camera

 

It's not that slow - but it annoys me that it won't provide a set of thumbnails from the shoot. You have to make them from the jpegs and then it will give you an index of thumbs to work from.

[Guest stnami]

... yes it is when I use it.... .....then I am in no hurry and enjoy and drift with the images as they entice me into their visual game

 

ps great for colour conversions to B&W

[gennfiks]

Hi, just my 5 cents worth of oppinion. I was using Raw Shooter Professional until I descovered SilkyPix and I find it much more superior (subjective oppinion) to the former and much more natural-like as far as the results are concerned. I detected in RSP even when "No Sharpening" was applied a strong edge definition which made images much more 3D-like, but more artificial-looking. That's when I discoverd Silkypix. The only thing that is desirable for this SW package is a good English manual. In some forums people are talking about the existance, and I checked it was true, in Amazon.jp of one book (in japanese) about the use of Silkypix. Unfortunately noone translated it yet.

 

Cheers

[kamilsukun]

Robert, Christophe, Carl, Brian, Stanami, Peter, Gennady,

 

Thank you all for very useful information. It is most kind of you.

 

Regards,

Kamil Sukun