Comparing RAW converters

jthomas

Since I got the D70 one month ago, I've been using Rawshooter Essentials (RSE) for making minor corrections and converting to jpeg. I have not been totally satisfied with the final result, so yesterday I downloaded Nikon Capture 4.2 (NC4) for comparison. I display below the same RAW file converted using both programs. All I did was increase exposure +0.35eV with both, and minimal sharpening.

First, RSE:



Now NC4:



Comments ? On my monitor, the hue is slightly different, but RSE looks slightly sharper. The color temperature was set to the same value on both converters.

digismile

Can't tell if one's sharper or not, but the NC4 looks more saturated on the monitor I'm currently viewing on.

jthomas

digismile wrote:

Can't tell if one's sharper or not, but the NC4 looks more saturated on the monitor I'm currently viewing on.

I was just looking at the Pixmantec Forum (developers of RSE). There are several posts about color problems with RSE, all from Canon folks. There may be a problem with Nikons, too, but no one else has posted about it.

Maybe color is a problem with RSE.

Steve Cavigliano

Major difference in red saturation. The greens look similar, but the reds in the Nikon conversion example look to be like a +15-20 sat difference.

FWIW, I think the detail sharpness is a bit better on the RSE example.

I've been fooling with RSE for a week or so, and I definitely haven't seen the color differences shown by your examples Although, come to think of it, I don't believe I've converted any images with this much red in them

Strange.........

Steve