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Subject: Re: [OM] Full list of cameras supported by the current version of ACR ( 8.3)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:28:42 -0500
I'll just add that Capture One was my first raw converter.  I gave it up 
many years ago in favor of ACR.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/14/2014 11:46 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> /clip/
>
> Moose brings up a whole bunch of points about raw conversion. If you
> haven't already done so, you should mosey over to Luminous-landscape
> and read the articles on the new Phase One CMOS back. The sausage
> making is coming to light.
>
> Part of what is revealed is just why so many Canon cameras "see
> differently" than other cameras, and by extension, why the lowly E-1
> sees differently than everything else. And also why Capture One is the
> best portrait raw converter there is.
>
> Within the wedding and portrait photographer community, the standard
> configuration you seem to run across more often than not is Capture
> one for raw conversion, results imported into Lightroom with a side
> processing of Photoshop thrown in. Lightroom is certainly not the best
> raw converter for skin tones from many cameras. Capture One is
> superior, and not by a small margin.
>
> Remember that the human eye doesn't actually directly see red. it sees
> orange. Red is a derived color by by absence of green. That's right,
> the human visual system determines that the color is red by
> subtracting out the green. Many Canon CMOS sensors are somewhat the
> same--the green detectors see up into the red spectrum. To prevent
> muddying everything up, a proper raw converter won't just add/average
> everything together, but must actually subtract before averaging.
>
> This is something that just screwing around with white-balance or
> curves won't fix after the conversion happens. This subtraction must
> occur PRIOR to the pixel averaging stage.
>
> As I've said so many times through the years: "Raw ain't Raw". The
> Green sensels see more than JUST green. Red sensels see more than JUST
> red and Blue sensels see more than JUSt blue. How we get to the point
> where the "cross-talk" between the colors isn't apparent is where a
> whole lot of magic happens. BTW, just in case you were wondering, the
> E-1 sensels have very little overlap.
>
>
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