![]() It's very good and very smooth, closest to the C1 result. I just happened to be shooting RAW + jpeg that day (makes for faster rating in FastRawViewer, ironically using the jpeg instead of the RAW as the default). You can see that all of these programs except for Affinity Photo did a good job, considering the chroma and luminance noise in the ISO 12800 original. Iridient Developer is struggling with my high ISO Canon sport files (hence my interest in experimenting with these other RAW converters). It's best to become truly expert in one or two RAW programs (that's been Aperture, Lightroom, Iridient Developer for me). I'll try DxO Photolab on the Sony files though and if it does a good job, drop C1 altogether (at least until Phase One make C1 single file friendly). So far for my Sony APS-C (NEX 5 and A6300), C1 has made the best looking conversions. Which will I use going forward? DPP or DxO Photolab for my Canon files, Iridient Developer for my Fuji X or old Panasonic files. It would be better if the defaults were more streamlined. But you have to go through all that pain for every install of Capture One. Of course, when you have Capture One set up just right, it's not so bad. Plus Capture One just has way too many screens to click through per image. In terms of interface workflow, I like Iridient, DxO Photolab, Affinity Photo, DPP and Capture One in that order (as I said, it's almost impossible to develop individual images in C1). Affinity Photo (failed to finish, even at sufficiently high quality level)Īll of these could be better done by a real expert in any individual program (Iridient Developer would be the only one I'd qualify as expert) or with a lot more time put in, but the results are quite representative of what is easily coaxed out of these programs with about five minutes per image.Photolab and DPP are about equal in terms of output and it was easier getting a good result from DPP. If DPP had a slightly better looking interface, it would be one of the most compelling RAW development programs for Canon image. The DPP rating system is very fast, browsing through full size images at full speed (even faster than FastRawViewer, with better looking previews). I'm really impressed, particularly as this is only about the third RAW I've developed in DPP: I do have the lens profiles loaded though. I had to add Sharpness 2 to get the detail back (initially I had sharpening turned off): Sharpness worked much better for this image than Unsharp Mask. I'd expect more detail out of full frame.Ī really great conversion, balancing detail, noise, colour, texture. But not much colour in general (and I did add quite a bit of saturation). No artifacts or discolouring around lips of player with ball. Local adjustments to fix the ref's forehead was very easy and quick. Plus their upgrade pricing and schedule is very customer unfriendly. My issue with C1 is that I don't want to use its DAM capabilities and its very clunky to try to use on a single or a small group of images. Certainly a very viable RAW converter, particularly for people who like their images smooth and noise free. Slightly digital look though, absence of detail through smoothing. Was not difficult to get rid of the chroma noise. If you care about image quality, do not use Affinity Photo as your RAW converter. As mentioned above, I'd have had to save the TIFF/PSD to be able to reopen this and redo the local conversions. Local adjustments made - didn't turn up here for some reason - but there's almost nothing to like about this conversion as a starting point to create a finished work. I was surprised by both lack of detail after adding noise reduction with the amount of noise left. There's no local adjustment so there's no way to add a quick spot fixes without reopening the file in Affinity Developer. Somehow nasty colour bugs manage to slip through the conversion at high ISO (check the mouth of the player with the ball or the referee's face). I'll also upload the RAW so anyone who wants to have a go with other software including ACR can make his or her own high ISO Canon comparison with DxO Photolab. I'm somewhat expert at Iridient Developer, novice with Affinity Photo, some experience with C1 (mostly with Sony files). Just for fun, I've made versions with some more RAW converters.
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