DXO PURE SOFTWARE

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DXO PURE SOFTWARE

– My best guess is, when some in-camera applications ‘fool’ Pure RAW, the results look ‘overdone’.DxO just released the new PureRaw 3 software (Click here to see all features and try it out). Personally, I’m using PL 4 and dont’t need Pure RAW. While the JPGs are affected (including the embedded one), only colour temperatures / white balance settings, colour space (AdobeRGB/sRGB) and Active D-Lighting are ‘registered’ with raw-files – the latter one without beeing reported in the Exif data (switched off ADL by now!). Raw editing options include image quality, White Balance, Sharpness, Contrast, and Saturation.įrom my Nikon D750 I know, that it can be set anyhow. This feature is typically found in the camera’s “Edit” menu. Some newer Olympus cameras support editing certain aspects of RAW files right in the camera.

Now, I checked Ask Olympus: What is RAW file format?

Be it FastRawViewer/PL4/RawTherapee/Olympus Workspace.”

“I experimented and found any RAW image changes I make in-camera, for example contrast/sharpness/saturation, is carried into whichever RAW developer the image is opened in.

Knowing and implementing this information has drastically changed the quality of my images.” For example: If I change my camera’s contrast, saturation, sharpness, shooting mode (Natural/Portrait/Muted) etc.

“Shooting RAW as I do not RAW+JPEG: Any adjustment I make in my camera is recorded in the RAW file.

I think I will just process each image both ways and see which one gives the most usable results in any particular case.Ī couple of days ago I got to know from an Olympus camera user: Lens correction is obviously lens/camera specific, but apparently the sharpening is too, and sometimes it overcompensates.īy turning off the module, you give up lens correction as well as sharpening, but most good photo editors also have lens correction, so you still have both lens corrections and sharpening, but you have control over them, which you don’t with PureRaw. The program still performs the excellent DeepPrime noise reduction and reduction of demosaicing artifacts, but it does not do sharpening or lens correction. I discovered you can click the “Modules” button and disable the use of the module during processing. I haven’t figured out what determines this, but it seems like an image that’s low-contrast tends to get sharpened less than images that are high contrast, but I’m sure that’s probably not the whole story. It turns out that some of the Nikon raw images also get over-sharpened in PureRaw.

Please, DXO, add the ability to disable sharpening in this tool! I understand that DXO are trying to make this a 100% “push the button” tool, and it works great for the objective things, but there absolutely needs to be an option to disable sharpening!Īs a work-around, I have found that I can use the “contrast by detail level” tool (essentially contrast by wavelet level) in the RAW tool that I use to mostly undo the over-sharpening, but it’s not 100% perfect, and most importantly, I shouldn’t need to add this extra step after using a tool that is supposed to make the workflow easier. For most people, this much sharpening (or any sharpening for that matter) should not occur this early in the workflow. Sharpening is subjective and will vary among photographers and from subject to subject. PureRaw is extremely good for the objective things that it does, like remove demosaic artifacts, noise reduction, and lens corrections, but it over-sharpens and with too large of an effective radius. I even filed a support request about it, but haven’t received any reply yet other than it will be sent to the appropriate people.

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