How does the majority here use their raw development software, it could tell us something about what MFDB owners needs from their raw converters...?
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I work for a lot of different clients that all have different needs and workflows and I can tell you there are no absolutes.
Early on in digital capture I would always produce a flat "negative" type of file, to build in layers for tonal values and color in photoshop.
that way I had complete control, but mostly did this because the software convertors were so simple in their ability to produce anything but a canned profile or a slightly moveable wb setting.
I think those days are becoming old think, especially after working with lightroom.
Lightroom allows me to change densities in shadows, highlights and midtones, effect split toning, adjust each color channel for density, saturation, and hue, even goes as far as to add a fill light funciton and burn or dodge the edges of a frame.
Prior to this the raw convertor made the negative, photoshop made the "transparency", but now with lightroom I work at getting as close as possible to the final transparency.
I've compared Phase and Leaf files in lightroom and it is the only software that allows me to produce almost identical looks from the two seperate manufacturers.
It really is a great equalizer and I hope becomes a great stand alone piece of software.
I have absolutley no interest in Aperture. It doesn't work with medium format files and I have this feeling that apple is motivated to sell hardware and software so every upgrade to aperture will probably require a new computer to reach full functionality.
That is a merry go round that is never ending.
I would think that Adobe would have a higher agenda, or at least a smart enough agenda to make light room fast and fucntional in as many computers as possible for many files as possible.
I hope adobe's agenda is to take it further, into the tehtered mode caastagory, because whether any of us like it or not, the standard for many commercial projects is tethering to a large monitor.
If I was Hasselblad and Leaf I would have the same hope.
JR
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