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Recommended Workflow for DP1S in 2021

Started Oct 20, 2021 | Questions thread
xpatUSA
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Re: Recommended Workflow for DP1S in 2021
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Nick_Andrews wrote:

Hi all, I've read multiple discussions on this but just wanted to clarify as I'm new to the Foveon game.

I recently purchased a DP1S - I can load the files into Lightroom Classic just fine, but am I losing anything by not first processing them in SPP?

Hello Nick and welcome!

What you get is Adobe's conversion via Adobe Camera Raw which is part of LR's Develop Module. Adobe's conversion is different to that of SPP. For example, I once had a yellow flower that got gamut-clipped by ACR but not by SPP.

The cause of that problem was not obvious. Shortly thereafter, I parted with Adobe for ever.

For the DP1s I would recommend SPP 3.5.2 for it's simplicity compared with later versions.

And what's the "minimum" amount of processing that I can get away with in SPP? (just really used to LR at this point)

For important work, I usually adjust nothing * and export to my fancy editors ** as 16-bit ProPhoto TIFF. My editors do everything better than SPP.

The above assumes that I got the exposure and WB correct in the camera.

* I also leave the camera JPEG settings at default.

** RawTherapee, GIMP.

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