Hello Dario, I ordered my copy about a week or so ago. I have been using Capture One for quite a long time. For the K10D, lack of any kind of support for either PEF or DNG made me look elsewhere.
I tried using Lightroom and somewhat liked it. The biggest issues for me were speed (SLOW, SLOW, SLOW) and the fact that it really wants to be your main tool. I have other tools that I want/need to use and just wanted the converter to be just that. After working with Silkypix for a little while, I got reasonably used to the interface. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, January 7, 2007, 1:53:42 PM, you wrote: DB> At the end of some testing, my new RAW converter of choice for the K10D is DB> Silkypix. DB> This is because: DB> Adobe Bridge/Photoshop CS2/ACR (call it at your leisure) is not up to my DB> expectations for a good conversion. Too much grain effect at any speed, DB> especially on a smooth sky, and too much artifacts and unnatural look in DB> dark areas. DB> Good user interface, very easy to get accustomed to and very handy auto DB> defaults setting. Unfortunately, not enough for balancing its poor DB> performance (for my taste). DB> Adobe Lightroom also shows some degree of above image look problems (not as DB> badly as CS2 does, but visible). Furthermore, it is slow to preview image DB> adjustments and forces your to work the way its designers think it is good. DB> Not my workflow. In short: better image quality and far worse DB> user-friendliness (to me). DB> Pentax Photo Lab 3.1. Pros: excellent image quality. Cons: alien user DB> interface needing two big screens to display and work. And it is sloooow to DB> show you the effects of image adjustments. Oh, have I told you how slow it DB> is? It is sloooow. DB> Silky pix: Excellent image quality, rather good interface, more than DB> acceptable speed, batch conversion... The closest thing to Rawshooter DB> Premium I've seen so far. After some quick testing, I'm hooked and I've just DB> ordered it. DB> Now I finally feel comfortable with the K10D. DB> Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
