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Sealife DC2000 Raw question

Started Oct 12, 2019 | Discussions thread
IAMC New Member • Posts: 7
Re: Sealife DC2000 Raw question
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Hi PC,

I took several hundred photos using the DC2000 system while on a trip to Palau - all in RAW (39Mb DNG and ~5Mb JPG). Incidentally, it would be nice to have the option to disable the creation of JPGs to increase next-shot availability and save on storage.

I used Adobe Camera Raw to process the shots into TIFs and a combination of DXO Photolab and/or Photoshop CS6 (v13) to do all the processing. I used either the built-in red filter settings/no light or a Sea Dragon 2500 light attached using their flex-connect arms to allow it to be positioned directly behind the lens. I also used the Sealife 24mm (19 mm equiv) wide angle lens - of course, removed for macro shots.

I was very pleased with the results and was very happy I had stuck with shooting RAW for the entire trip! Processing the DNGs, I was able to get the white balance corrected perfectly and the IQ from the 1" Sony sensor was pretty impressive for such a low cost system.

Could you share 2 or 3 of your DNGs via whatever cloud storage you prefer? I could process them and let you know what settings I used. I am sure other photographers here would do the same.

Ian.

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