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RAW converter for MFT?
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Some months ago I bought a Pana with a couple of lenses as a second system for travels. I am quite pleased with the result from it, but borders could be a bit better (espcially Pana 14/2.5). A bit of resolution is lost by the the adjustment of distorsion. I have Lightroom as raw converter. Which raw converters do not automaticly adjust distorsion? Capture One seems to be an option but to a high price. Are there any others?



Göran
#2
[quote name='goran h' timestamp='1346769357' post='19934']

Some months ago I bought a Pana with a couple of lenses as a second system for travels. I am quite pleased with the result from it, but borders could be a bit better (espcially Pana 14/2.5). A bit of resolution is lost by the the adjustment of distorsion. I have Lightroom as raw converter. Which raw converters do not automaticly adjust distorsion? Capture One seems to be an option but to a high price. Are there any others?



Göran

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Raw Photo processor (free, mac only)

Raw Developer (mac only, trial version available)

Raw Therapee (free)
#3
[quote name='Doroga' timestamp='1346771496' post='19935']

Raw Photo processor (free, mac only)

Raw Developer (mac only, trial version available)

Raw Therapee (free)

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Thanks



Göran
#4
[quote name='Doroga' timestamp='1346771496' post='19935']

Raw Therapee (free)

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I wouldn't recommend RawTherapee without a certain amount

of hesitation. Even with small batches (about 10 images) it crashes.



I personally use RT only for single special images because I like its

ability for highlight recovery and the posibility to select different

deconvolution/raw-conversion algorithms ... and that's where I would

recommend RT without a doubt.



For larger batches of images, I don't think RT is a good choice.



Just my 2cts ... Rainer



PS: For the original problem ... the conversion of images without

auto-correctures applied to them ... shouldn't it be possible to

switch these corrections off in Lightrooms preference-settings?

(I don't use Lightroom often and I don't use the actual version, so

I don't know ... but I would assume, there should be such a setting

somewhere).
#5
RawTherapee is not recommended for 32-bit systems.



m43 corrections are completely silent in Lightroom & no chance of disabling them.

Works same as camera Jpeg auto-correction.



Worst thing is that build in distortion correction is not perfect & you may need to do it twice in some cases.
#6
[quote name='Doroga' timestamp='1346771496' post='19935']

Raw Photo processor (free, mac only)

Raw Developer (mac only, trial version available)

Raw Therapee (free)

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Now I have tested a 64 bit RT. It seems to work quite well for my needs - just to use it occasionally when I don´t want correction of distorsion.

I was surpriced how much that autocorrection can blur the image.



Göran
#7
[quote name='Rainer' timestamp='1346840004' post='19942']

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PS: For the original problem ... the conversion of images without

auto-correctures applied to them ... shouldn't it be possible to

switch these corrections off in Lightrooms preference-settings?

(I don't use Lightroom often and I don't use the actual version, so

I don't know ... but I would assume, there should be such a setting

somewhere).

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Sadly, this doesn't exist in Lightroom and is very unlikely to happen. I vaguely recall reading that Adobe partnered with Oly & Pana to implement their autocorrection. The idea behind is that mainstream applications completely blackbox these to the end user, unaware of the technical tradeoffs being made to attain compactness.
  


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