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Re: [OM] Who in the world writes this junk? - Raw software rant.

Subject: Re: [OM] Who in the world writes this junk? - Raw software rant.
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:48:00 -0500
It's funny, with raw shooter (which we still use) the "sharpness" slider 
makes a noticeable difference in the preview pic, with "raw therapee" it 
seems to do very little.  We still like RS very much but will probably 
have to abandon it if we get a more recent camera.
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Ken Norton wrote:
> What rips me is that Adobe bought up and killed the best RAW converter out
> there. RawShooter was simply amazing. Fast?  I've encountered nothing
> faster.  The only way to make Lightroom usable is with a flamethrower
> computer with gobs of ram. It is an absolute pig otherwise.
> 
> I have some hopes that RawTherapee will improve in performance. I really
> hope so because the program actually is quite decent, but needs another
> generation or two of cleanup.
> 
> Capture One gives amazingly good results with Olympus files. One thing ACR
> (and every Adobe variant) suffers with is the ability to get decent colors
> from Olympus files when the photograph was taken in mixed light. Both
> Capture One and the Olympus Studio/Master converters are able to get mixed
> light colors correct. This is absolutely a critical issue with the E-3, but
> is a problem with other bodies as well. The E-3 and Lightroom are NOT a good
> match at all for portraiture/wedding photography.  Profiles only get you
> close most of the time, but when it fails it fails big time.  Capture One,
> in particular tends to do something really nice in that it warms the
> backgrounds while maintaining proper skintones. To get the same backgrounds
> in Lightroom the skintones turn horrid. Might as well try and do portraiture
> with expired Fujichrome Velvia.
> 
> Olympus Studio2 is actually very decent. It's a slug in the speed department
> and I'd prefer to have the thumbnails reflect the temporary edits like
> Lightroom does, but the program has been unfairly lampooned. The one thing
> I'd like it to do that it doesn't is live directly updating like Photo
> Mechanic does. There really isn't much that Studio2 doesn't do except
> support non-Olympus RAW files.
> 
> Digital Asset Management is still a horribly weak spot. I'd say that we're
> still two years away from having a decent DAM system available, but
> honestly, we've been saying that for at least 20 years when we were
> hotrodding DBASE and Paradox before Borland bought them and ruined the
> software.
> 
> AG
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