![]() ![]() I have the Sony version so I can't do anything with the Coolpix A file except to convert it to tif. Settings: it's crucial to set the NR method to Better Quality 2013 and zero the sliders for low ISO the Moire reduction was set to low but it doesn't do anything so you can ignore this Lateral CA on USM RGB 10/3/0 Picture Control: Recorded value (i.e. Not surprisingly, it looks very similar to your OOC jpeg. NX (the free Nikon Capture NX-D 1.3.0).CA correction was left disabled because its results had a negative impact on moire. ![]() Crucial setting: Demosaicing strength set to Moderate. Mind you: this is a screenshot, so don't evaluate the sharpness of the file. It looks like it also uses something like the AMAZE demosaicing (it's very similar to your Darktable Amaze version. Note: like LR, the Camera WB is interpreted with some magenta bias (as compared with the more neutral NX and CO WB). My settings: crop Demosaicing: amaze with 1 false colour suppression step CA auto-correction on custom flat-field file for f/4 aperture Adobe Standard dcp colour profile with TC and Look table on Sharpening: RL Deconvolution at defaults except for the radius (0.65) Defringe: custom equlizer setting for magenta and green (that helped a lot!). Then I opened them in PSE and saved as quality 10 jpegs (so as to avoid jpeg compression discrepancies between the converters). I cropped inside each converter and developed the file to 8-bit, uncompressed, sRGB tiff (no output sharpening added). Since the defaults are vastly different for each of them I've decided to apply a different methodology - getting the most out of each of them with respect to detail and optical corrections (subjective, I know). It's open source, and gives me all the sliders and dials I need.So, I've downloaded your raw file and converted it in 7 converters on the Windows 8.1. The Squirrel Mafia has created camera profiles for many of the mainstream Pentax cameras here. Never used LightZone, but any group which requires me to register to download their program annoys me.The registration seems to have been a result of a hacking incident at their website, but hey, I can see it being annoying. I still remember when the program cost $200, so registration is a low-cost relative to that. I am not a huge fan of LightZone, but I like that its workflow is unique. When I am struggling with an image, it can be a nice change. RAWTherapee is of a similar design to the typical RAW software, so it rarely helps me out. It may be best, however, if you aren't paying for anything. If I quit the programs I've paid for, I'd probably use LightZone and RawTherapee, both. ![]() I'd also probably switch over to Linux so I could use Darktable and try it out. It's open source, and gives me all the sliders and dials I need.I kind of like both RT as well as Darktable but the abundance of sliders and dials is exactly what I tend to stay away from. ![]() I bought into the basic Linux program philosophy: an executable should do one thing only, but do it exceptionally well. This is also the background to what Udi Fuchs, the developer of Ufraw wrote on his website. I really need a raw converter to be just thàt: a tool to convert raw sensor data into an editable image file with only the bare minimum of manipulations: demosaicing, white balance setting, a color curve - I possibly forget one or two little bitty things but that's the gist of it. Editing of that image file is then best left to one of the other rather specialized tools in my kit: digiKam and Gimp (both 16-bit) or even something entirely different such as ImageMagick or GMIC for some really interesting manipulations and mathematical functions designed to either improve an image or apply some sort of effect to it. It definitely IS a matter of taste though, not saying an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach is wrong, far from it! Just never been one of my favorite ways of working. RT is a solid piece of work which came a long, long way since Gabor Horvath opened the sourcecode, after having understood it was the only way to attract an international development team who would take the code to new places.
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