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Stealthy updates of K-1 II files a few days after the review

Started May 11, 2018 | Discussions thread
Roland Karlsson Forum Pro • Posts: 30,035
Re: my trust in the comparison tool is gone
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KPM2 wrote:

That is odd. This file has a rare processing error ?

It HAD a processing error. The one that is there now is replaced.

Than why this file look's so good when I open it in my Lightroom? I did post pictures how it looks.

So - there is no surprise that it looks good now.

The funny thing is:

When I open it with my ACDsee...it looks dull and detail less, and very similar to the first look in the DP comparison tool.

When I open it with my Lightroom 3.6...it looks very good. It looks so different in sharpness, details and colour tone, that you think it must be a picture from an other camera!

Same for the ISO 3200 DNG file.

Sounds like ACDsee do not handle color management correctly.

All in all I stop to trust that comparison tool ... for all brands. I trust now only, what I see with my own RAW converter when I open this files there.

Making tests is difficult work. In particular if you shall do it with many cameras where the differences are not all that large. It is very easy to make a mistake so that two perfectly similar cameras gets different results.

Therefore, if you want to really compare camera A and B, then you need more than one opinion and also maybe a special test that has used lots of hours to just test those two.

In other words, DP get out of this, in my Lightroom so different and good looking file, so different views, and now they claim that this file has a rare processing error, I have to ask myself: what can happens to other brands files ? I only know Pentax DNG files very well and see therefore at once....there must be something wrong in that comparison view...but I do not can see this for other brand files, because I have no experience for them.

As I did say above, it seems you have misunderstood the situation.

That you get two different results with different viewers is not the fault of DPReview. You have to check why ACDSee is incompatible with the file.

Moreover, I think the replaced file had problems with sharpness. Not color. And not incompatibility.

best regards KPM2

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