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February 14, 2010

50D RAW Processing Shootout 2: ISO 3200

As promised, here's the follow up to my previous post comparing RAW Processing from Aperture 2 (AP2), Aperture 3 (AP3), Digital Photo Professional (DPP), and Lightroom 3 Beta (LR3b).

Someone did ask about the newly-released Bibble 5. I haven't downloaded the trial version to play with yet, so it's not included.

This time, we'll be looking at 100% crops from this image, taken at ISO 3200 under some weird tungsten/compact fluorescent light.

RAW Shootout: Lady

As before, I simply opened the file in each program, and then exported the result of its default processing as a 16-bit TIFF file. In this case, that means no color correction was performed on the photos before export, so they are yellow.

I cropped out the same section of each file and put them into this one composite image to make it easy to see the differences between the noise and detail levels. The image is really big because I saved it at maximum quality when I converted to JPEG to preserve the chroma noise detail.

My conclusion - LR3b did the best, closely followed by AP3. The difference here is nowhere near as dramatic as it is with ISO 400 photo, but LR3b seems to do a slightly better job with the chroma noise while retaining more detail.

AP2 gets third place, because even though it doesn't deal well with the chroma noise, it does a good job preserving detail. DPP is last: it does a good job eliminating chroma noise, but is by far the worst for destroying detail.

RAW Shootout - Canon 50D ASA 3200, 100% Crop
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February 10, 2010

50D RAW Processing Shootout: Aperture 2, Aperture 3, Digital Photo Professional, Lightroom 3 Beta

50D RAW Processing Shootout: Aperture 2, Aperture 3, Digital Photo Professional, Lightroom 3 Beta
In my last post , I complained about how Aperture 2's processing of my Canon 50D's RAW files left in way too much chroma noise and h...
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February 09, 2010

Aperture 3 vs Lightroom 3 Beta - 50D RAW Developing

Aperture 3 vs Lightroom 3 Beta - 50D RAW Developing
Straight up, I like Aperture better than Lightroom. The way it works fits my mind better. However, I've been working with the Lightroo...
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February 09, 2010

Single Speedlight Challenge 2 - A Hard Light, a Long Way off

Single Speedlight Challenge 2 - A Hard Light, a Long Way off
Lighting set up: A Canon 550EX through a 10 degree grid spot about 20 feet away from the cue ball, to camera right, firing straight down t...
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