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RAW Developer revisited
- Thread starter irakly
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djg
LOL, Irakly! You definitely have my vote too, Greg
. I'm just shooting raw now. Problem is, I went from 2.8MB to 9.3MB per frame so I had to go and buy a couple of 1GB flash cards - those 512MB cards weren't cutting it. I guess the industry owes you some thanks, too
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Well, those dolts at Digital Photography Review posted an announcement for the new Raw Developer, but omitted the ND support from the news. Figures.
Contax ND, the camera people love to hate, unless you own one for a while ...
Contax ND, the camera people love to hate, unless you own one for a while ...
This may be old news, but...the new version of Adobe Raw Developer for CS2 is a huge leap forward from RAW Developer 2.n. Noise is banished almost completely...and long time exposures seem on the cards. I haven't checked it out in detail yet, but first impressions are superb.
albert4321
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humm, it is good to know. I have two CS2 books that I am trying to digest. I will check out the Noise comment by Robert when times permits.
The "real world camera raw with CS2" is a great book from the same authur of "real world color mgmt". It stated that with a 12bit camera capture encoding, it produces 4096 levels of tone. since the senors is linear capture (the level correspond exactly to the number of photons captured,) the half of the 4096 levels are devoted to the bright stop, half of the remainder (1024) are devoted to the next stop, half of the remainder (512) are devoted to the next stop, and so on.
So if you under expose 1 stop, like most of the dSLRs tend to do, you lost half the levels. The old saying of under expose a little for digital capture is dead wrong. I am sure we all knew that already. But I was shock to read about losing 2046 levels (half of the total range) for the brightest stop.
The "real world camera raw with CS2" is a great book from the same authur of "real world color mgmt". It stated that with a 12bit camera capture encoding, it produces 4096 levels of tone. since the senors is linear capture (the level correspond exactly to the number of photons captured,) the half of the 4096 levels are devoted to the bright stop, half of the remainder (1024) are devoted to the next stop, half of the remainder (512) are devoted to the next stop, and so on.
So if you under expose 1 stop, like most of the dSLRs tend to do, you lost half the levels. The old saying of under expose a little for digital capture is dead wrong. I am sure we all knew that already. But I was shock to read about losing 2046 levels (half of the total range) for the brightest stop.
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djg
Some of the great new things in ACR 3.x include multiple images being handled by a filmstrip-style selector with a configurable synchronization function, a curve setting function, and the ability to save straight from ACR. You can also invoke ACR directly from the Bridge app. Thomas Knoll has raised ACR to a whole new level.