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RAW Converter Comparison / Challenge

Started Jan 10, 2021 | Discussions thread
OP Tim van der Leeuw Senior Member • Posts: 1,364
Re: RAW Converter Comparison / Challenge

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Honestly, unless fireworks are your primary focus, this is really a poor choice for evaluating RAW converters. All three color channels are blown to some degree and there isn't really any fine detail or nuanced color to work with. This really only shows how well a converter might handle irretrievably blown highlights and fringing. Some of your examples that exhibit less attractive color here may actually reveal more nuanced color detail with a "normal' image.

Thanks for your insights!

It does indeed heavily judge them on  fringing and highlights, that's true. And fireworks is not going to be my main focus of course.

But blown highlights will happen with some subjects.

To me it suddenly and unexpectedly highlighted how big differences can be between different converters, sometimes you need extreme situations to bring them out.

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