Some good news from Adobe - in a previous post, I reported that the new Adobe "V4" camera profiles broke the Adobe profile editor, a tool a lot of photographers depend on to get accurate color. Well, Eric Chan, who is on Adobe's Camera Raw team, has gone on record that the profile editor will be updated. See here.
2

Adobe Lightroom 3.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 6.6 final is now out, with new fourth generation "V4" camera profiles. Unfortunately, it turns out that the V4 profiles break dcpTool. Here's the story:

For a while now, the Adobe folks, notably Eric Chan, have been working away at building better camera profiles. Theses profiles are intended to address a problem with some cameras, when used with earlier generation profiles, that could result in highlight banding.

Luminous Landscape have been testing the Sony NEX-7, and found that when using the NEX-7 with non-Sony lenses, it's "CornerFix To The Rescue" .

Looks like the "mainstream" photographic sites are finally starting to "get it" as regards ETTR. Ctein, one of the better knows columnists on The Online Photographer, has published 'Expose to the Right' is a Bunch of Bull.

Here a short review of PhotoRaw: RAW Konverter fürs iPad

"With PhotoRaw I've now found one app that does the job satisfactorily.

The 7.49 EUR each for the app is absolutely value."

It's in German, but easy to translate and view via Google translate.

Umm, yes, scary but true.

Michael Reichmann has a new article on ETTR. It's called Optimizing Exposure, and you can find it on the Luminous Landscape site. The article itself doesn't have anything new - it's just a rehash of Michael's old arguments, "levels", etc, but it is vintage MR stuff, with references to important and highly competent people that Michael knows and that support what he's saying.
3

For those planning to be on the bleeding edge and upgrading to OS X 10.7 Lion, please be aware that there is a new version of CornerFix, version 1.4.2.0, available. Earlier versions may crash with Lion.

You can update now - the new version is compatible with all version of OS X from 10.4 onwards.

.....and, not of course that I would say "I told you so", but well, I told you so. As predicted in this post (yes, all the way back in Feb 2010), Leica have managed to significantly improve "red edge"/"Italian flag syndrome", but not completely eliminate it in all cases, even for modern Leica lenses. Take a look at the various posts on the Leica User Forum for the details.

On predictions, a second prediction I made at the time has also turned out - take a look at this interview with Dr.

Photoshop Touch is Adobe's latest addition to Photoshop's capabilities - basically, it adds one-touch image transfer from an iPhone or iPad to Photoshop. You can read about it on this page.

Rob Galbraith has a good comparison of the various raw processing apps for the iPhone and iPad (including PhotoRaw) in his article on the iPad 2.

Specifically, he lays out the trade-offs between PhotoRaw and the other guys  - which is that PhotRaw takes a long time to import images because it does as much as possible up front, but then provides real-time adjustments to exposure, etc, whereas the other guys import faster, but then don't allow real-time adjustments.
Popular Posts
Popular Posts
Blog Archive
Blog Archive
About Me
About Me
My Photo
Author of AccuRaw, PhotoRaw, CornerFix, pcdMagic, pcdtojpeg, dcpTool, WinDat Opener and occasional photographer....
Loading