The 14mp and 16mp seem to put a strain on resources used by DCU 5, the
6mp files from cameras like the *ist D series are handled much better,
for them it's almost snappy. However there are a number of UI issues
with what I would call the new Candified interface over the PDCU 4,
which much prefer. The UI is very customizable, but none of those
changes appear to be saved on exit. Version four let you save to a
custom directory, v 5 forgets, and saves to the default unless you
specifically tell it to. Version 4 remembers the directory being used
in the previous session, V 5 forgets...
I don't use Lightroom, I don't really like the way it decides that it
know that it's best for me to want everything in a database that it
controls. I'm still a bit pissed off that Adobe killed Raw Shooter
Essentials/Professional, which I really liked a lot. DXO Optics Pro,
which I use for K20D and K-5II files, doesn't seem to recognize Pentax
cameras prior to the K10D so I use PDCU 4 when I need more subtle
manipulation of *ist-D/Ds files than the RAW converter that comes with
Photoshop can handle, and yes I'm using an ancient version of Photoshop.
On 12/9/2015 5:23 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Dear Darren I have made quite a few attempts at using DCU5 version 5.4.1
Each time I have given up and go back to Lightroom, Photoshop or Cyber
Link Photo Director.
I have all of them on my 4K Laptop and use the last three
interchangeably for specific PP work.
The PDCU5 interface is not easy to use except for Laboratory Custom
Image first top level screen
which stimulates the camera Menu.
The response time to each change is not instant and the degree of
change is not as large or precise
as in say lightroom.
I just find Lightroom faster and easier to operate as all the
adjustments are in one page as you move
down. And the Clarity slider + color correction with three channels
are simply amazing. Plus it has
many more easy to use innovations like I no longer carry GND Filters
as Lightroom has it.
I also had the original Japanese Silky Pix Software at one time, which
I did not like as it was not
intuitive enough.
Regards.
Bipin.
Landscape photography is an expression of joy and God’s bounty
--
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
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