excellent Capture One

[JV]

Fred,

I wouldn't mind running it through Phocus (on a Mac) either if you are interested.

Best, Joris.

[fredjeang]

Hi Fred, I'd be curious to process this raw with the latest RawTherapee with the floating point engine - could you share the file (PM?)

Michael, you might have a point. I checked Raw Therapee and it's very good. Not good but very good. I put it on the same level as C1 if not better just in terms of render processing. But not in terms of stability and speed.
Raw Therapee that I saw does not like very much to receive orders before it completly finish a task. Otherwise it is very good and not surprised that you as a pro you are using it.
Anyway, you're the Raw Therapee guru, feel free to post whatever. Joris, once uploaded I send you the link too. Also curious to see what Phocus does because I like very much Phocus.

[MichaelEzra]

Fred, thanks for sending the raw file.
Here is a quick illustration. This shot is in mixed lighting, so clean color is difficult to achieve.
Custom pp3 file attached for reference.

[fredjeang]

Thanks Miachael.
I recognise your particular style in the custom. IMO it would suit very well for B&W conversion.

In Raw Therapee, wich method of demosaicing do you generally use?

[MichaelEzra]

Thanks Fred. I use Amaze and a recently introduced checkbox for post-demosaic refinement (right under the demosaic method drop down). This additional processing can significantly improve resolution without any artifacts, especially in areas of moire, common to non-AA systems. Refinement is of special benefit for further enlargement of the converted file. Amaze algorithm produces very balanced results - superior resolution and least amount of artifacts, compared to any other method I've ever tested, although at the small penalty of speed. HPHD algorithm is much faster and works very well in most cases. Amaze will have an edge in quality, especially handling of aliasing artifacts.

Regarding performance, 96-bit (3 channels) floating point Rawtherapee-64bit on Win7x64 processing with all advanced and resource-demanding options turned ON - 22 MP file gets processed into 16 bit TIF in 5-10 seconds on a modern i7 2600K CPU with 8GB DDR3 1800MHz RAM.

[fredjeang]

Thank you very much for those infos Michael,

Cheers.

[deejjjaaaa]

Thank you very much for those infos Michael,

Cheers.

and the author (of AMaZE) is Emil Martinec who is present here on the forum... which is an added bonus.

[MichaelEzra]

Here is a link to a thread on another comparison of latest C1 to RawTherapee with custom camera ICC profile.
http://rawtherapee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3069

[deejjjaaaa]

Here is a link to a thread on another comparison of latest C1 to RawTherapee with custom camera ICC profile.
http://rawtherapee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3069

but at the default settings... so it is apples to oranges... RT and custom made profile might be way better, but to compare raw converters at their default settings is not a good idea.