Aliens 4 - Humans 0
* Reansalyse cannot open the Sinarback eMotion75 Raw .dng file
* DCRAW just flashes in a black box on my screen and disappears forever into the ether
* DCRAW X (for Mac) cannot open the eMotion75 raw .dng files
* Another nice raw interface program MEGUI that uses DCRAW can open raw .dng files from Canon 5D that I have on my computer but crashes when I feed it a raw .dng file from the Sinarback
So maybe my MFDB is the alien???
Meanwhile, I have been informed by a friend who knows about such things that it is true, the .iso switch on the Sinarback eMotion75 is mainly decorative, though have not been able to verify this myself yet.
If this is true, which increasingly seems to be the case, then what are the implications:
a) perhaps things do not always work as we are lead to believe they do
b) maybe this applies to your MFDB too?
c) perhaps more recent MFDBs work differently in this respect?
d) what is the point of relying on the histogram on the MFDB for such entertainments as ETTR etc if it is just hooked up to an iso switch that is mainly decorative….
e) am I the only one who didn't know this already???
Fortunately none of this need prevent me from continuing as I have always done opening the .dng files in C1 and boosting the exposure to the desired level. In my opinion This still produces a "better" 16-bit TIFF file than importing and exporting the .dng file from Sinar's own Captureshop or Adobe Raw (even though both of the latter two programs do recognise and automatically adjust the image and histogram to the iso setting in the metadata of the file) so life could be a lot worse.