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Canon R5 and it's raw files

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Lisa Kiehls said:
xtam667 said:
DPP is one of the best RAW converters and it's free.
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Nope. DPP is a slow mess in my experience. Decent colors but bad a retaining highlights, slow interface, slow conversions, crashes when there is a high number of raw files in a folder, etc.

Capture One is the best IMO. I’d buy the non-subscription version. It’s been the standard for tethering and conversion in commercial studios around the globe for a long time now.

Google, Apple, LVMH, Sephora, New York Times, etc., etc. are using capture one in their studios with good reason.

If you spend 4000+ on a new camera, a few hundred dollars on the best raw converter makes a lot of sense.
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I think there are a lot of variables that impact the concerns you highlighted. For example, I have no crashes.


the comment about colors is personal. I find C1 and DPP Very close. But this is not the only decision point.

no question that C1 has the ability for amazing editing, but my comment above discusses a workflow where you don’t feel the need to edit to get a look or you don’t need to edit at the raw level.

slow processing. Totally agree. It is unacceptably slow, and hopefully It will natively support Apple silicon in the near future.

lens corrections - not sure you can get close with any other program.

cost is not an issue that I use in my decision. I have all the processors.



conclusion. For a canon end-to-end workflow where you want to move from camera directly to print, or where you want an exceptional raw conversion and are happy to finish up in a program on tiff files, I think it is amazing.....even with the big flaw of processing speed.
 
logan ross said:
I agree about the time issue. I have been stuck with the more complex programs for a while as I had been shooting Fuji which is not supported in many programs at the raw level. Now that I don’t have that restriction, I am once again free to explore these new options and focus on the creative aspects of photography.
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Do yourself a favor. Download the free trial of DXO 4 Prime and you WILL be hooked. I know I had my doubts until I took it for a quick trial run. I was very impressed indeed
 
ProDude said:
logan ross said:
I agree about the time issue. I have been stuck with the more complex programs for a while as I had been shooting Fuji which is not supported in many programs at the raw level. Now that I don’t have that restriction, I am once again free to explore these new options and focus on the creative aspects of photography.
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Do yourself a favor. Download the free trial of DXO 4 Prime and you WILL be hooked. I know I had my doubts until I took it for a quick trial run. I was very impressed indeed
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I also use Photolab 4. On the rare occasions when I need to do anything something more extreme with layers, I use Affinity.

I subscribed to Adobe for years and am happy to be liberated from the subscription model.

I find Photolab is a bit slower than Lightroom, but I do far less processing with it - the images are just rendered better, and the Deep Prime noise processing is amazing.
 
Smorton said:
Looking for recommendations about developing raw files from Canon R5.

I have Lightroom and Photoshop but no subscriptions and I don't want to go in that direction. I bought the last versions when it was in disc form.

Looking for an expedient or good way to develop the raw files some other way.

Thank you.

SM
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I also refused to pay monthly for the Adobe Creative Cloud service monthly, so now I use Capture One pro, and I can also use the free DPP or DNG convertor to convert those to DNG then I can open them in LR/CS if I need to, but honestly I am getting so comfortable with Capture One I think I can say Good Bye to Adobe now.

While DPP lacks all kind of editing capability but as for simple raw convertor, I think it's doing a fine job, once you converted the RAW you can use any of your favorite editing software,.

i also have Affinity photo and Luminar 4 that can read all the raw files from all kind of new camera, I shot with multiple system and platforms so far I did not find I miss Adobe LR/PS at all.
 
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Dan_168 said:
logan ross said:
my one ask of canon would be to rewrite the necessary code to leverage the power of the Apple M1 chip.
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That would be really nice if they do that and I may actually use DPP more if they do it.
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Totally. Until now I used c1 and PS exclusively. My experience with a simple $1000 M1 Mac Mini is that is caused me to retire both my high powered water cooled PC and my intel based high powered MacBook Pro. It’s been two months and I haven’t looked back!
 
logan ross said:
Dan_168 said:
logan ross said:
my one ask of canon would be to rewrite the necessary code to leverage the power of the Apple M1 chip.
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That would be really nice if they do that and I may actually use DPP more if they do it.
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Totally. Until now I used c1 and PS exclusively. My experience with a simple $1000 M1 Mac Mini is that is caused me to retire both my high powered water cooled PC and my intel based high powered MacBook Pro. It’s been two months and I haven’t looked back!
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Yeah I was amazed by my new M1 Mac mini ( 16GB Unified memory and 1TB SSD) , I never took Mac mini seriously and always consider that not much more than just a cute looking toy for web browsing, but after playing with my friend's and I decided to get one and it actually replaced both my 2012 loaded up Mac Pro and 2014 iMac, I only keeping the MacBook Pro for travel only but it looks bad next to the $1200 mini. only annoying part is some of those older app won't run and I am forced to buy a new version. like I can't run the LR6 and CS6 and old google version Nik Collection and thing like that.
 
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