Ab S
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I used DxO PureRAW for optical corrections and their excellent noise reduction DeepPrime combined with an older version of Capture One Pro (vs 12.3): The output DNG file served as input for C1 where I did my editing. Resulted in very sharp images from my Sony RX10. So when PL6 arrived I decided to purchase the Elite version (including DeepPrime XD)
But...whatever I tried in PL6 I could not find (reproduce) the 'sharpness' and colors to my satisfaction: I liked Capture One more, both in colors and in detailed sharpness.
see https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66744861
So I kept on using PL6 only for optical corrections and noise reduction and exported the dng to C1.
A few weeks ago I purchased the RX10iv, and to my surprise 'sharpness' was on par with C1! Results look great! Apparently PL6 does a better job on the RX10iv than on the RX10i.
My personal default preset in PL6 Elite are:
But there are still many things to improve in DxO PL, mostly on the user interface, just to name a few:
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But...whatever I tried in PL6 I could not find (reproduce) the 'sharpness' and colors to my satisfaction: I liked Capture One more, both in colors and in detailed sharpness.
see https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66744861
So I kept on using PL6 only for optical corrections and noise reduction and exported the dng to C1.
A few weeks ago I purchased the RX10iv, and to my surprise 'sharpness' was on par with C1! Results look great! Apparently PL6 does a better job on the RX10iv than on the RX10i.
My personal default preset in PL6 Elite are:
- Sharpness: default (global 1.0, details and bokeh 50)
- DeepPrime NR
- SmartLight: default (25)
- ClearView: +10
- Micro-contrast: +25
- Color vibrancy: +20
But there are still many things to improve in DxO PL, mostly on the user interface, just to name a few:
- The tonal sliders (brights, mid tones, shadows, darks) are overlapping too much and the sliders are too coarse: in particular the dark has way too much influence on the other tones
- The sliders of the equalizers (local adjustments) are difficult to adjust, just too tiny and too coarse
- Auto masking - although in general works quite well - could be much improved, e.g. by automatic object recognition in the way Topaz Photo AI (or formerly Sharpen AI) does
- The DeepPrime (XD) window is much too small; there should be an option to see the result full or half-screen: processing a DP image costs less than 5 sec with my RTX 2060 GPU
- On my 32" 4k screen I get full sharpness displayed only after zoomed in to 85% or more (as is also mentioned in the PL6 manual). In C1 the full image is displayed in full sharpness
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