On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The camera makers seem loathe to infer any color values. DPP does a little
> recovery, which I assume is only pulling down
> the highest values that aren't at max. Viewer seems to take the position
> "You blew it, live with it."
>
Responding late. Very busy lately.
ACR with the E-400 sensor output almost feels like stealing to me (not that
I champion stealing). Pull down highlights , push the shadows so that the
histogram looks like a Hershey's kiss and you've got something usually
pretty nice to work with in PS.
I suspect Viewer does some of the colors a little better. Reds still
frustrate me a little in ACR and tend to oversaturate if I do no more than
look at them funny. But certainly ACR is what I would take to a desert
island (or the asylum, which is the more likely).
Speaking of the E-400, above ISO 400 ACR's noise removal fixes an
unfortunate tendency for the output to show the "grid" at 100% pixels. I
have seen this before only with the E-330, and I sort of quit using that
camera because of it (and the arrival of an E-3). Obviously not related to
sensor type but to some Oly contrivance.
ACR gives new life to these old cameras, which is a special,
non-photographic delight to me, as I like getting use out of things which
people who know better don't use.
Joel W.
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