JF> I tried dcraw - I even went as far as to download the source and take JF> a look at it. At least part of my playing around with my own conversion JF> code is based on my dissatisfaction with dcraw; quite aprt from the fact JF> that the conversion process loses all the EXIF information, I found the JF> colour balance to be terrible (and I'm not all that keen on the algorithm JF> it uses for the Bayer interpolation).
I see. So it was you who did the quick raw converter utility for pentax raw files :) ? JF> Many of the programs that now offer Pentax raw file conversion are based JF> on the dcraw code, and so they will have all the undesirable artifacts JF> of the conversion. The one big exception, from what I hear, is Photoshop JF> CS; although it too is based on dcraw, Adobe have done a lot to enhance JF> the implementation with code to use some of the other information in the JF> file (other than just the raw pixel sensor values). That won't help with JF> the Bayer artifacts, but it will help with white balance, sharpening, etc. Interesting. Anybody knows if the CameraRaw function of Photoshop (which was I think first a plugin for PS7) is available for some tryout? Best regards, Frantisek Vlcek
