Thanks, Bernard.
Very useful information.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Apr 8, 2006, at 3:32 AM, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
>
> I tried it on my Mac, which is an old one (G4 450MHz bi-procesor).
> It is very slow, slower than Adobe Camera Raw or Silky Pix or Raw
> Developer, much slower than Capture One. Funny, since it is
> heralded as the quickest raw converter - maybe the demo version
> does not take advantage of the 2 processors (these 2 processors are
> what gave this aging Mac such a long lease of life).
>
> And the interface is truly hideous, in my opinion at least, very
> much out of place on Mac OS X. Very crude.
>
> Thus, although the software capabilities seem interesting, and the
> price is right, I did not try any further. On a more recent Mac, if
> the speed is acceptable, and one can overcome the interface (not
> sure I could), it might be a good program!
>
> For now, I have settled on :
> * Capture One LE as my raw converter of choice. The colors and
> speed are OK, the interface and workflow are nice. The Pro version
> has some additional niceties, but at 500 $ is much too expensive.
> * Raw Developer (Mac Only): I bought it too. Good colors and fine
> controls, nice interface. Not as polished as C1, but a lot of
> potential (look up its review on Digital Outback Photo).
> * SilkyPix: good colors, the interface is a little bit
> disconcerting (the tranlation from Japanese is strange...). But my
> trial period has ended, I cannot try the advanced controls. Seems
> good though, I might buy it as well.
>
> Others I have tried but not liked:
> * Olympus Viewer gives good results, but the speed is glacial and I
> don't like the interface.
> * Didn't try Studio, but from what I read I would not like it.
> * I don't like ACR (for Olympus files at least), I find it
> difficult to get good colors with it for .orf files, and I never
> succeeded in calibrating it to my satisfaction (I tried maybe 10
> times). The interface and workflow are fine though.
> * I cannot try Lightroom, it is for Mac OS X 10.4 only, I use 10.3
> - and I guess its rendering angine is that of ACR anyway.
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