Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
From | Floyd L. Davidson |
Date | 11/30/2013 03:30 (11/29/2013 17:30) |
Message-ID | <87bo12pqo0.fld@apaflo.com> |
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Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
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bdThere are many things that are simply impossible (sharpening) or difficult (any adjustment that isn't automatic) with DCRAW. It is not meant to be used as a general tool.
[...] DCRAW works fine, but... the results are not as good looking as those that the camera delivers in jpg format, since, I suppose, the latter go through one or more enhancement processes such as sharpening, improving contours and contrasts through the use of various filters or in altering gamma factor etc..
With my new EOS 600D, I use "ufraw", which works as an interface for dcraw. The results that I obtain are neither better nor worse than those with the G2.Note that UFRAW is a lot more than and "interface" using DCRAW. It uses DCRAW as the basic converter engine, but has it's own processing for many other of the enhancement tools you need.
ufraw *.nefYou will want to change *.nef to whatever suffix is appropriate for your raw files. But it will do each raw file in sequence. If you don't want to do a given file, click on "cancel" instead of "save" and it will skip to the next file. Clicking on "save" will *only* write a *.ufraw file, which happens almost instantly. It then goes to the next RAW file. You don't need to wait for it to convert each file.
ufraw-batch *.ufrawYou can then take a coffee break, read Usenet, or whatever while all of the time consuming number crunching is done.