10-06-2010, 10:25 AM
[quote name='Reinier' timestamp='1286292863' post='3501']Walter, did you mean buying LR 3 instead of CS5?[/quote]
Indeed!
[quote name='Reinier' timestamp='1286292863' post='3501']I already have LR 2 and DPP from Canon, but I mainly use Photoshop so far. Maybe I should get to know LR better or should I buy another converter altogther like DXO or ACDSee?[/quote]
Your mileage may vary!
I liked DxO (v3 and v4) being a newbie to digital imaging. Not willing able to fight with RAW development, DxO was my tool: Fire and forget. If something went wrong - like it did if I missed to correct white balance/colour temperature - I restarted the process. Worked well and time is not a problem (at least for me).
After quite a while I really got annoyed about what it did to portraits, the colour shifts, the crappy demosaicing engine and marginal lens support for my rather old-fashioned consumer cam (350D for about 4.5 years). At the time I really wanted to get rid of Dxo v4.x, they announced a new engine (DxO 5.x) and had a very bad start with it.
So I switched to LR2 and CS3/4 + PTlens. Nowadays I spend a lot more time in postprocessing ... partly because there are more steps to be done compared to DxO but mostly because I'm much more concerned about image quality now.
Disclaimer: I never used DxO 5.x and 6.x. The issues I had mentioned are based on my experience with v3 and v4 and the "bad start" is my personal opinion about issues with the first v5 as discussed in the DxO user forum.
I cannot say anything about ACDsee.
Ciao, Walter
Indeed!
[quote name='Reinier' timestamp='1286292863' post='3501']I already have LR 2 and DPP from Canon, but I mainly use Photoshop so far. Maybe I should get to know LR better or should I buy another converter altogther like DXO or ACDSee?[/quote]
Your mileage may vary!
I liked DxO (v3 and v4) being a newbie to digital imaging. Not willing able to fight with RAW development, DxO was my tool: Fire and forget. If something went wrong - like it did if I missed to correct white balance/colour temperature - I restarted the process. Worked well and time is not a problem (at least for me).
After quite a while I really got annoyed about what it did to portraits, the colour shifts, the crappy demosaicing engine and marginal lens support for my rather old-fashioned consumer cam (350D for about 4.5 years). At the time I really wanted to get rid of Dxo v4.x, they announced a new engine (DxO 5.x) and had a very bad start with it.
So I switched to LR2 and CS3/4 + PTlens. Nowadays I spend a lot more time in postprocessing ... partly because there are more steps to be done compared to DxO but mostly because I'm much more concerned about image quality now.
Disclaimer: I never used DxO 5.x and 6.x. The issues I had mentioned are based on my experience with v3 and v4 and the "bad start" is my personal opinion about issues with the first v5 as discussed in the DxO user forum.
I cannot say anything about ACDsee.
Ciao, Walter