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Sealife DC2000 Raw question

Started Oct 12, 2019 | Discussions thread
Press Correspondent
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Re: Sealife DC2000 Raw question

Thanks for your valuable insight. I will most definitely keep it in mind. My question though is far more basic. It is not about correcting underexposed shots or setting the optimal ISO or shutter speed (although These are very important of course). My question is how to correct a properly exposed shot in Raw at least to match the correction applied by the camera in JPEG. The immediately noticeable corrections include the lens distortion correction (barrel etc.), sharpening, and color.

One way I can think of is to take one shot and then spend a day or a week) to make Raw look the same as JPEG. Write down the settings and use them as a starting point for all images. (Before applying further individual corrections.) For example, Raw images look blurry with the default ACR settings. Trying to sharpen them straight forward (e.g.  by using Unsharp Mask) makes them look oversharpened before they become as sharp as out of camera JPEG. I've tried using several sequential sharpening filters with different radius settings and it gets close to what the camera does. Clearly the camera uses a custom filter. It would be nice to know it's parameters instead of trying to reverse engineer it. The same with the lens distortions, etc.

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