What Raw Conversion do you use? II

DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
edited February 25, 2008 in Digital Darkroom
Let us try this again with a longer list. Hopefully much more complete!

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What Raw Converters are being Used by Members? 83 votes

Aperture
4% 4 votes
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
30% 25 votes
Capture One
2% 2 votes
DPP
15% 13 votes
ACR & PSCS,
19% 16 votes
Bibble Lite/Pro
2% 2 votes
Silkypix
0% 0 votes
DxO
2% 2 votes
LightZone
1% 1 vote
Nikon Capture/EX
4% 4 votes
dcraw
1% 1 vote
UFRaw
1% 1 vote
rawtherapee
4% 4 votes
GraphicConverter
2% 2 votes
Pixmantic RawShooter (still)
1% 1 vote
Other
6% 5 votes

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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2008
    again my list is short....Adobe Lightroom, ACR in PSCS...and I do have the ability to use the Konica Minolta software that came with my cameras..........
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  • SavedByZeroSavedByZero Registered Users Posts: 226 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    I'd just like to know do you ya'll keep your RAW image files or just the resized JPG or do you keep them at TIFF? I'm just trying to figure out if I need a bigger HD. I've got a 160gig with an older 30gig slaved in.

  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    SavedByZero wrote:
    I'd just like to know do you ya'll keep your RAW image files or just the resized JPG or do you keep them at TIFF? I'm just trying to figure out if I need a bigger HD. I've got a 160gig with an older 30gig slaved in.
    HD's are so cheap these days. Most useres I come across keep their RAWs somewhere as ultimate back-ups, if nothing else. As Raw converters improve nice to be able to go back and possibly revisit what one might do with an image.

    :D

    Don
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  • xrisxris Registered Users Posts: 546 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    I also use UF Raw at times (with GIMP) and Irfranview too. And for RAW viewing, I use pretty much any Vista compatible viewer using Canon's RAW driver for Vista.

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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    xris wrote:
    I also use UF Raw at times (with GIMP) and Irfranview too. And for RAW viewing, I use pretty much any Vista compatible viewer using Canon's RAW driver for Vista.

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    I'm interested in how you get Irfanview to convert RAW. I'm only able to get it to access the embedded jpeg. (Image size 1936x1288 from a Canon 40d where it should be 3888x2592.)
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    BigAl wrote:
    I'm interested in how you get Irfanview to convert RAW. I'm only able to get it to access the embedded jpeg. (Image size 1936x1288 from a Canon 40d where it should be 3888x2592.)
    BigAl might actually get an answer to this with it's own properly titled thread eslewhere in the sub forum.

    In this under read thread you're less likely to get a answer to an OT question like that.
    :D

    Don
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  • LA LandscapesLA Landscapes Registered Users Posts: 62 Big grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    I used to use ACR, then switched the Nikon Capture NX. I like the way it handles colors.

    Lightroom is a pain in my arse. I use it for organizing, etc., but I don't like the auto-adjustments it makes (and haven't found a way to completely turn that off).
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    LA Landscapes wrote:
    I used to use ACR, then switched the Nikon Capture NX. I like the way it handles colors.

    Lightroom is a pain in my arse. I use it for organizing, etc., but I don't like the auto-adjustments it makes (and haven't found a way to completely turn that off).
    you should be able to do your own default preset with zero applied or what ever works for an initial setting for you, if you are using Version 1.3.1.

    Don
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  • xrisxris Registered Users Posts: 546 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    BigAl wrote:
    I'm interested in how you get Irfanview to convert RAW. I'm only able to get it to access the embedded jpeg. (Image size 1936x1288 from a Canon 40d where it should be 3888x2592.)
    Sorry LRmvcDonR. It's an aside.

    There's a plug-in available from the Irfanview site. If it's not in the 'format.exe' collection, it's available as a separate CRW/CR2 plug-in.

    From: http://www.irfanview.com/

    "CRW - (version 4.10): allows IrfanView to read Canon CRW/CR2 files (high resolution image version) Note: this PlugIn requires additional Canon DLLs. You can download these DLLs with the Canon ZoomBrowser program:
    http://www.canon.com/
    or try here:
    http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/plugins/canon_crw.zip
    (check "Readme.txt" for instructions and install!)"

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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    xris wrote:
    Sorry LRmvcDonR. It's an aside.

    There's a plug-in available from the Irfanview site. If it's not in the 'format.exe' collection, it's available as a separate CRW/CR2 plug-in.

    From: http://www.irfanview.com/

    "CRW - (version 4.10): allows IrfanView to read Canon CRW/CR2 files (high resolution image version) Note: this PlugIn requires additional Canon DLLs. You can download these DLLs with the Canon ZoomBrowser program:
    http://www.canon.com/
    or try here:
    http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/plugins/canon_crw.zip
    (check "Readme.txt" for instructions and install!)"

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    Well, someone's lucky day, then! :Dthumb.gif

    Don
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    xris wrote:
    Sorry LRmvcDonR. It's an aside.

    There's a plug-in available from the Irfanview site. If it's not in the 'format.exe' collection, it's available as a separate CRW/CR2 plug-in.

    From: http://www.irfanview.com/

    "CRW - (version 4.10): allows IrfanView to read Canon CRW/CR2 files (high resolution image version) Note: this PlugIn requires additional Canon DLLs. You can download these DLLs with the Canon ZoomBrowser program:
    http://www.canon.com/
    or try here:
    http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/plugins/canon_crw.zip
    (check "Readme.txt" for instructions and install!)"

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    Thanks for info, but I've been down that road (see post 7) and it still displays 1926x1288 images. (FWIW, those plugin files are pretty old.)
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  • xrisxris Registered Users Posts: 546 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2008
    BigAl wrote:
    Thanks for info, but I've been down that road (see post 7) and it still displays 1926x1288 images. (FWIW, those plugin files are pretty old.)
    Version 4.10 appears to be Nov 15, 2007. That's only three months?
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,129 moderator
    edited February 25, 2008
    Sorry, I answered the wrong thread first.

    I use:

    ACR/PS CS2
    DPP
    Colour-Science Image Editor (i2e) ver 2.4.3
    Raw Shooter Essentials 2005/2006
    IrfanView, internal and using Canon DLLs
    Picasa2
    Raw Therapee
    RawDrop w DCRaw
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