A Warning about DxO Optics V5

[NikosR]

Hi,

I thought I should make people aware of problems some licensed and demo users of DxO Optics v5 are currently facing.

If you are contemplating buying, upgrading or even demoeing V5, do yourselves a favour and read through the DxO.com forums first or scan other photography related forums for such issues.

[Huib]

THanks. DxO 5 is still a beta version. Seem to be that a lot of buyers have troubles including me! Bought this the first day and I can't still start it up!

[NikosR]

Thought I should update this to be fair to DxO.

Latest release 5.0.2 seems to fix most of the major 'doesn't start' and snail-like performance problems and, at least for the purposes of demoing, it seems one can avoid the anti-pirate code.

Quite a few issues and bugs remain IMO to make this production ready, of which I find most significant the fact that it seems there is no facility to import and export projects from databases and also merge or otherwise maintain the database.

[Misirlou]

5.0.0 works ok on my Pentium 4 laptop. I had some startup issues when I first installed it, but they went away after a reboot. I'm sort of afraid to try 5.0.2.

My real problem with 5X is that there are very few lens modules available for my new camera, and I already gave away my old one. So I can't use any version of DXO on anything I'm shooting now. I can go back and work on old shots, but where's the fun in that?

[Misirlou]

5.0.0 works ok on my Pentium 4 laptop. I had some startup issues when I first installed it, but they went away after a reboot. I'm sort of afraid to try 5.0.2.

My real problem with 5X is that there are very few lens modules available for my new camera, and I already gave away my old one. So I can't use any version of DXO on anything I'm shooting now. I can go back and work on old shots, but where's the fun in that?
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I checked the DXO site today, and they have added a lot of new lens modules to DXO Optics V5 for the 40D, including all but two of the lenses I use. This is good news. I'll be testing V5 over the weekend.