In a previous post, I has mentioned the existence of a "new product".
Well,
AccuRaw is now in a closed beta.
AccuRaw isn't of course aimed
at the X-Pro specifically.
AccuRaw is, as its name suggests, intended to
deliver technically accurate raw conversion rather than the "Hollywood
colors" conversions that most current raw developers deliver by default.
But one part of what AccuRaw does to to give very fined grained control
over the internal operation of the demosaic process. Specifically, it
has sliders that control artifact suppression in luminance and
chrominance, and post-demosaic chroma filtration. So you can
tune the demosaic to suit your camera, the nature of the subject,
etc, rather than have the one-size-fits-all of the mainstream raw
developers.
Of course, this makes AccuRaw potentially
useful to owners of camera with X-Trans sensors. So here's a
quick comparison showing
AccuRaw vs the other guys:
ACR and SILKYPIX versus AccuRaw
Just for reference, here are the various contenders from previous posts:
Adobe Camera Raw V7.1 beta
ACR beta 7.1 - Lots of chroma smearing, and the letters are quite desaturated.
SILKYPIX conversion
SILKYPIX - best of the breed so far, some chroma smearing, saturation down, resolution appears slightly reduced
AccuRaw Beta 5: Maximum resolution settings, 400% crop
AccuRaw Beta 5: 60% luma and chroma artifact suppression,
20% post demosaic filtering, 400% crop
In
the first crop, set for maximum resolution, AccuRaw gives very good
results on the red letters, but has some artifacts. However, with
AccuRaw, you can tune the result to what you want. The second crop shows
moderate artifact suppression settings - still nowhere near as much
chroma smearing as the other raw developers, but much reduced artifacts.
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