What are you guys thinking of image quality, for me when processing P21 files at ISO200 it's quite a step above Lightroom, it's just not as controllable.
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I think the color rendering is better than in lightroom and when opening shadows I see less or no ghosting around the edges, which I see a lot in lightroom.
I would like V4.whatever to have single color controls, like the orange, yellow, red, etc. of lightroom, though in lightroom orange is needed because everything I put in lightroom goes orange.
What I would love to see from any tethering/converting software is more of a modular process, like Leaf's old V8, where capture and viewing is just one process (which equates to fast and low power) and a second modual or software allows finish out work, ala lightroom, photoshop etc.
When you think about it, a lot of the work we do in photoshop could probably be done in the conversion process. I think that was/is the plan of lightroom/aperture and mabe even v4, but they need a lot more controls, like layers, movable dodging, burning, etc.
In other words you shoot the standard shot and to present the way you want it to go, open the second function, pull down your look and and there you have it, though it's somethng you don't have to run full time.
This allows you to make your own special effects film look and though the processing power on doing this at every frame in capture would probably make the software slow, if it was a seperate software suite, that ported over easily from the capture suite, it would have a lot of usefullness.
I think one of the downsides to showing a digital capture is what we initially see on screen is not close to where we are going to take the image in post.
It would be nice to develope some presets, (not just color correction) but real different looks like 8x10 polaroid, effected desaturated color channels, burning/dodging, that with a simple pull down menu could show a client and say, see this is close to where it will be at finish.
Just a thought.
JR
P.S. also Phase should bring the color editor back. It was kind of clunky in the way it named a profile, but when needed it was glorious.
