On Jun 26, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > One thing I noticed about the Pentax Photo Lab software is that it > took care of hot pixels in a 3200 ISO image in a way that none of > the other programs I tried out did, without using a noise filter. > Does the camera "know" where its weakest pixels are and somehow > convey that information to the software? > > I'm embarking upon a project that will consist of very low light > images. An upgrade to CS2 is out of my budget for this project. > What do you folks recommend for RAW conversion for OS X? > > Can dodging and burning be done at the conversion stage? Are some > converters better at upscaling than others?
Camera Raw v3.4 does an excellent job with hot pixels. I never noticed any difference between Camera Raw's hot pixel removal and Pentax Lab when I tested. Here's a comparison between Vuescan and Camera Raw: http://homepage.mac.com/godders/straight-NR-comp.jpg Regards a RAW conversion application that is not Adobe Camera Raw, I'm fairly impressed with "RAW Developer" by Iridiant Digital <http:// www.iridientdigital.com/products/rawdeveloper.html>. In general, dodging and burning is done after conversion. Can't say about whether some converters are better at scaling than others. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
