Thanx to everybody for taking time of originalraw. I dont think its useful to take RAW(+Internal-JPG-Thumbnail)+JPG in the camera settings. From the data stored in the RAW File you can always generate a JPG later, with or without interpolation is up to you.
Originalraw uses
"dcraw.exe -v -h -w -T -W"
for converting the RAW files to jpg. Its misleading to say its "half size" jpg, its not half size, its native RGB-size, and thats 100 % Megapixels from a Bayer-2x2-Pattern-Sensor.
For Example, my Sony SLT-A65 has 24 Megapixels advertised by the manufacturer Sony. But each pixel in these 24 MP only have ONE Color, RED OR GREEN OR BLUE. But to adress one pixel on your LCD/LED/Monitor/Display/Screen there are THREE values required with each having RED,GREEN,BLUE information.
Using interpolation algorithms to upscale native 6 RGB-Megapixels to 24 Megapixels does not provide you more information per pixel. Interpolation means uise one Information multiple times, but that does not increase resolution. It just give you a upscaled, generally lightly blurred image.
Using originalraw will generate 100 % sharp JPGs with superpixels (native RGB-size):
At the same time i have to say, that
"dcraw.exe -v -h -w -T -W"
is the only tool that creates JPGs out of the RAW files WITHOUT any additional manipulation, even when set them all disabled in the camera, it always occurs from the in-camera-jpg-engine like:
contrast manipulation, color boostings, noise (and details) removing and especially the completely stupid brighten up the image to +1EV (that happens on all images on SLT-A65, it means if EV is set to +0EV all images are taken with -1EV, pros: faster speeds, cons: higher noise, afterwards the image is brighter up to +1EV by software algorithm and the increased noise is removed altogether with details additionally). I set my SLT-A65 to +1EV to get correctly exposured RAW images.
If you use originalraw and get jpgs that are darkened by 1 stop, make sure you set your camera to +1EV, take RAW pictures, and then use originalraw again to see the results.
originalraw does a lot of additionally steps you maybe always expected from a fully automated workflow tool:
+ originalraw moves your RAW files from your SDCard to the TEMP_RAW dir
+ originalraw moves your Video files to a final destination dir AND renames the video files to %YYYYMMDDHHMMSS%-%originalfilename%, therefore you always know from the filename when the video was recorded
+ originalraw resets the RAW-Filedate to the EXIF-Date
+ originalraw renames the RAW Files to %YYYYMMDDHHMMSS%-%originalfilename%, therefore you always know from the filename when the picture was taken
+ originalraw creates EXIF-TXT from the RAW Files. You can upload these files altogether with the RAW and/or JPG File so everybody can quickly see the ALL DETAILED EXIF Informations without downloading the JPG or RAW File. Of course you can also quickly open the EXIF.TXT file to have a quick view in the EXIF Data.
+ originalraw creates superpixel-native-RGB sized JPGs with 100 % jpg quality without color subsampling. this is the MAXIMUM jpg quality level. The out-of-cam jpg will only give you 94 % WITH color subsampling 2x1.
+ originalraw can shut down the pc after converting all files. So you can start originalraw for thousands of RAW files to did take and just go to sleep... the next day you start your pc and get all the JPGs.
+ originalraw creates log files for each time you press the button "start originalraw" so you can always read what was done and what not and why.
