RAW decoding comparison
Ok, so last night I tried to go capture Comet Lulin, and frankly I chickened out from the cold and lack of a tall tripod. However, I did manage to catch it in a few shots and I thought it looked good on the lcd, but upon getting them into Aperture, they looked like utter crap. Noise galore. So I remembered reading about some pro who decided to give the native (it was either Nikon or Canon) software a whirl that comes with the camera and lo an behold, he got less noise on RAW images.
So, time to find those CDs and install. Not much later and I couldn’t believe the difference. Here we have the untouched RAW files merely being interpreted by each program with Aperture on the left and Canon’s RAW Image Task on the right.
I think I found my new software to convert RAW. I think I’ll just dump them out into Aperture after adjusting any details available on a RAW shot as a TIFF for further editing from now on.
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Eric on 01 Mar 2009 at 11:24 pm #
Yeah that’s pretty much why I invested in Nikon’s software, 3rd party software works pretty well but my understanding is it’s all reverse engineering since both Canon and Nikon have closed source RAW formats. So it makes sense that the vendor software is going to work the best.