(please also check out part 2 soon for details & sharpness comparison and for the final conclusion)įrom a highlights & shadows recovery point of view the benefit of not needing to use external RAW converters seems to be an achievable target, Adobe´s ACR is doing an excellent job here ! OK I´d not push it that far for a fine art print to preserve the visual impression of the original situation, but good to know there is room for manoeuvring ! Interim Conclusion: Adobe´s ACR wins the dynamic range battle ! Sorry, did´t have no more access to Capture One & never used Raw Therapee so those two are not covered here. To do this I basically first maxed out the highlights recovery and then pushed the shadows by slightly increasing exposure until just before the highlights started blowing out again (thereby keeping an eye on not losing too much contrast). So I was interested how much detail I could pull back into the image during post processing: Although aesthetically the SOOC JPEG quite faithfully rendered what I´d originally visualised at time of capture the highlights & shadows are like totally blown out.
Let´s start with Highlights & Shadows Performance. Highlights & Shadows Performance (this post), and 2. I´ve been using Photo Mechanic for culling / key-wording & Lightroom for (mobile) image management / processing since way back, so obviously a built in RAW converter would have major advantages for my workflow compared to an external one (no more needing to export & copy back in, nor splitting image processing over 2 bits of software, etc.) yawn -) compare Adobe´s Camera RAW (included in Lightroom & Photoshop CC) with the best external RAW converters out there (Iridient & Photo Ninja) - ya just gotta keep on your toes here -) please read on if interested ! ? -) Hey, could it be that Adobe´s now finally gotten their Fuji X-Trans rendering act together ? Intrigued by this performance I decided to (again.
But when opening the RAW´s with ACR - what the.