dcpTool for the Mac is now available
dcpTool has been available for quite a while as a command line application for Windows and the Mac. But now it available in the form of an easy to use Mac app, with powerful batch processing capabilities. dcpTool for the Mac is available from the App Store.
11How to remove the lens corrections from any raw image
Many cameras embed lens corrections into raw the raw files that they produce. Generally, that's a good thing - straight lines stay straight, etc. For an example of lens corrections in practice, take a look at this post about the Leica SL.
But, as the saying goes, "there is no free lunch".
Cleaning Leica M10 DNGs
Those of you that have read the Leica M10 raw file analysis post will know that M10 DNGs have more baggage in them that is typically the case for a Leica DNG. I've put together a little app to clean them up, called DNG Cleaner (Mac only for the moment).
AccuRaw has become AccuRaw EXR
AccuRaw users might have gotten a bit of a surprise recently - AccuRaw has turned into AccuRaw EXR, and is now at version 3.
The reason for the name change is that the focus of the AccuRaw product has changed a bit, based on what users were actually doing with it.
Fuji GFX 50S compressed raw support is now available
Good news - AccuRaw, AccuRaw Monochrome and PhotoRaw now have support for the compressed raw format that Fuji use in the new GFX 50S. Previous versions of AccuRaw/PhotoRaw had support for the regular uncompressed RAFs, but not the compressed version.