On 1/6/2017 12:45 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
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I totally agree with you, it's the best deal for the computer side of
photography in the industry right now. While the actual raw converter
itself is a bit pedestrian, nothing else about it is.
I'm a bit mysterified here. Isn't LR still mostly an alternate GUI for ACR? I know they've added some localization
ability, Dehaze and ???
Or are you talking about the conversion alone, sans any sliders, etc.?
I do try others, but so far always end up back at ACR for day to day Raw conversion. It had better color than Canon's
DPP, when I shot Canon. It has as good, if slightly different, color as Oly Viewer 3, IMO, and better than DxO and
SilkyPix, distortion and CA correction that most don't. Best highlight recovery I've seen, that ranges from infinitely
better than V3 and SPix to somewhat better than DxO.
Given any random images from cameras it supports, I'd bet it's overall the best conversion about 98% of the time. Yup,
DxO distortion correction is both better and smarter for WA, but it only matters on some shots. If I were an
architectural photographer, I'd have a different opinion. :-)
I've not tried Phase One for quite a while, so may be out of date there. No, I can't recall Topaz, and my ON1 doesn't
actually work yet. RawTherapee is decent in many ways, but doesn't do distortion and CA, doesn't do plug-ins for them
and doesn't recover highlights. I haven't used PWP since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, but it has at least two of RT's
problems.
But really, for day to day µ4/3, the only sensible options are ACR, DxO, V3 and SPix, two of which are crippled and one
does color funny. Is Sony SPix, too? ACR does a fine job with the A7 files.
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