![]() Being able to apply contrast with no colour shift using the luminance curve is very nice. Iridient has one other ace up it’s sleeve, the Lab mode curves. ![]() Abobe Camera Raw gave pretty much identical results to Capture One. At the same time I briefly tried comparing with Adobe Camera Raw (Photoshop CS6) and Aperture 3. ![]() And I have tried very hard to fine tune it, I really wanted to be able live with it. I cannot for the life of me imagine why people say Capture One has good noise reduction. Leaving camera default noise reduction on is a real disaster. On the Capture One side, I have used default settings, but with Pre-sharpening 2, and noise reduction disabled. So it’s hardly a technical masterpiece, or indeed an artistic one.įor the Iridient images, I have used default settings, including the Iridient Reveal sharpening mode and default noise reduction. The following nondescript postcard shot from Norway provides a good example - shot with an Olympus E-P5 and 17mm f1.8 lens (actually quite a good lens) at f8.0 (which, yes, is a slightly suboptimal aperture if you’re a pixel peeper), handheld. But then I started down the rocky road of comparing Raw developers. First I thought it was just a limitation of the small sensor in the Olympus camera I mainly use, or maybe the less than top-level lenses. I was seeing a disturbing “plastic” look in low frequency areas, and lack of definition in high frequency detail like foliage. I’m no pixel peeper, but even so, once I’ve noticed something at 100% magnification I find it hard to ignore. But I guess I can live with that with some help from the saturation sliders.īut more and more I started getting a feeling that things didn’t look quite right when taking a closer look. I am a lot less impressed by the total lack of luminosity, or indeed luminance curves/levels. I managed to convince myself I (still) quite liked the default “Film curve”, and I was and am impressed by the exposure controls and the layer adjustments, in particular to apply local white balance. And I diligently set about getting back up to speed with C1, helped by the ample, free tutorial material on Phase One’s website. It didn’t do too bad a job - better than Lightroom anyway - and I was more or less able to recreate my Aperture projects within the approximation of MediaPro which has been bludgeoned into CaptureOne. I painstakingly exported my Aperture library and watched CaptureOne painfully, sluggishly import it. In recent months I unhappily emigrated from Aperture, and eventually settled on returning to CaptureOne as the best compromise. Now over 9 years later, I’m repeating the same loop. The results are clear: RAW Developer is extracting more detail and more neutral colour than CaptureOne Back in June 2006, several geological eras ago in Internet years, I wrote a blog post which started out like this:įollowing earlier posts about this, today I managed to find time to evaluate Iridient RAW Developer 1.5.1 against CaptureOne Pro 3.7.4, for Olympus E-1 RAWs.
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