Dear Sigma, I'm not keeping the DP1 Merrill.

What I find lots easier is to batch convert to 16-bit tiff files, and edit those.  You only really need SPP when you want to recover highlights.

It goes even faster still if you shoot raw+jpg and only batch convert the good images based on review of the JPG files.

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