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best version of SPP for dp2s images?

Started Mar 23, 2016 | Questions thread
Tom Schum
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Re: link to SPP 3.5.2 for windows
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dr.noise wrote:

allineedislight wrote:

http://www.stv.ee/~donq/sigma/s/sigma-spp352-setup.exe

Especially for high ISO bw (say at 800 or 1600) SPP 3.5.2 really is the preferred choice - the difference to later SPP versions is quite dramatic.

I hoped they fixed it in later versions. Five or so years passed, I still remember the shock when I saw how they destroyed that beautiful grainy rendition. What a shame.

Thanks for the link! I downloaded and installed SPP3.5.2, compared with SPP6.3.3. Both run well on my windows 10 laptop. Only problem I have is that the SPP3.5.2 exposure warning does not work. It works well on SPP6.3.3.

But what a difference!

Classic DP2 ISO 1600 files, converted to Monochrome in SPP, show much better image quality and more grain in SPP3.5.2. In SPP6.3.3, there is a fuzzy halo around the highlights, even with NR set to minimum, completely messing up these areas of the image.

I'm going to have to do a good comparison between the two versions of SPP, and put up a side-by-side image, but the two versions of SPP do far different things to the file so this might take a while.

I have two directories for these DP2 raws, one for SPP6.3.3 and one for SPP3.5.2, so the raws will not get cross-contaminated.  EDIT: both directories were loaded directly from the SD card, so I know they are pristine.  Camera firmware is 1.05 (the latest for the DP2).

At this point I really like SPP3.5.2 for high iso DP2 monochrome.

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