DIGITAL CAMERA RAW CONVERTER COMPARISONS
with Canon 1Ds Mk II and 20D RAW images
Adobe's ACR
(Photoshop CS3 & Lightroom), Bibble Pro, BreezeBrowser Pro, Capture One,
Canon's Digital
Photo Pro, SilverFast DC Pro / DC VLT and Silkypix Developer Studio
Color Renditions Page 2
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These outdoor images were shot in RAW with a friend's 20D at ISO 100 and white balance set to sunlight. All of the photos were taken in mid morning sunlight. The images were converted to TIFF and then resized and converted to JPEG and sRGB for accurate monitor viewing. It is important to remember that these images are presented as constructed from each RAW converter's default settings. These images are not representative of the best image that each RAW converter is capable of producing. All of these images could be improved with a little work in the RAW converter. |
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My friend's 2005 Lotus Elise makes for a good study in how these RAW converters handle a fairly bold yellow. |
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| ACR | BreezeBrowser Pro |
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Just a little too warm |
A little too light and a little too warm |
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| Bibble Pro |
Capture One |
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very good color |
warm but good car color |
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Digital Photo Pro |
SilverFast DC VLT |
good color but a little washed out |
good but a little too much red |
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| Silkypix Developer Studio | |
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washed out in the lighter yellow tones (easily corrected with Silkypix's very clever highlight controller) |
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My dirty storm chasing Scion XA is good for a study in reproducing RED. The color of the car is called "Absolutely Red". |
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| ACR | BreezeBrowser Pro |
| Just a little too warm. Red is slightly magenta | pretty accurate |
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| Bibble Pro |
Capture One Pro |
| good colors but slightly magenta reds | very accurate |
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Digital Photo Pro |
SilverFast DC VLT |
| very accurate but washed out reds | slight green/cyan cast dulls red color |
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| Silkypix Developer Studio | |
| accurate, very saturated reds | |
| Blue | |
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| ACR | BreezeBrowser |
| 103R-145G-198B - picked from the top 25% of the photo - very nice 'blue sky' |
R112-G154-204B - picked from the top 25% of the photo - good sky color |
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| Bibble Pro |
Capture One Pro |
| R108-G143-B198 - picked from the top 25% of the photo - good sky color |
111R-147G-184B - picked from the top 25% of the photo - a little warm |
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| Digital Photo Pro | SilverFast DC VLT |
| R120-G157-B209 - picked from the top 25% of the photo - good sky color |
R85-G114-B160 - picked from the top 25% of the photo a little too red |
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Silkypix Developer Studio |
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R90-G140-B196 - picked from |
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