Comments on: RAW deathmatch – Lightroom 3 vs DXO 6 vs Capture One 5 vs Bibble 5

By: Armand Niculescu

Armand Niculescu — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:49:29 +0000

Yes, a new review will follow.

By: Armand Niculescu

Armand Niculescu — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:48:10 +0000

Yes, a new review will follow and it will hopefully include Aperture 3 as well.

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:58:54 +0000

Hi,

thanks for your review. Could I kindly request you to update for LR3 final version, which now has optical correction as well as lens correction. I would be interested if DXO6 is still worth it when having the same features in LR3.

Kind regards,

Donald

By: xeraph

xeraph — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:10:27 +0000

Hope you’ll be able to update the review with the final release of Lightroom 3 as it brings significant new changes since the betas primarily with the introduction of Lens Correction and the enabling already of the new luminance noise reduction.

By: yukonchris

yukonchris — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:09:54 +0000

Thanks for the excellent review. It would be even better if you’d include ACDSee Pro 3 in your evaluation. I think it is an excellent program but it would be nice to see how it fares against similar software.

By: Armand Niculescu

Armand Niculescu — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:00:52 +0000

DXO nu suportă HDR în adevăratul sens al cuvântului, prin combinarea mai multor imagini (pentru asta recomand Photomatix sau Picturenaut – vezi http://www.twin-pixels.com/hdr-cathedral/), însă DXO Lighting şi highlight recovery sunt, după părerea mea, destul de puternice şi eficiente, astfel încât pot fi suficiente în multe situaţii.

By: GRAF EGON

GRAF EGON — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:48:26 +0000

Buna d-le Niculescu

este posibil ca cu programul DXO OPTICS PRO 6 sa realizez poze HDR ??? Ptr. ca ati mentionat mai sus ca este posibil. Eu nu am gasit comanda ptr. HDR in program.

Multumesc ptr. ajutor
cu stima
Graf E.

By: Armand Niculescu

Armand Niculescu — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:53:16 +0000

Carl, you are correct. I was aware of this but I did not make it clear.
Still, generic DNG support was a constant request from the community, with heated discussions on Bibble forums. Considering that many users want it and that Capture One supports it, Bibble Las should seriously consider it.

Ideally, camera makers should get together and agree upon a common standard (be it DNG or something else) rather than continue with proprietary, incompatible and often intentionally obfuscated formats (like Nikon encrypting th WB info), which do nothing for the user.

By: Carl-Erik Kopseng

Carl-Erik Kopseng — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:08:28 +0000

At first I really did not get what you meant by Bibble not supporting DNG files, since I have been using the DNG files produced by my Samsung GX-10 since 2008. But then I read up on the subject in the Bibble 5 forums, and it is indeed true that they do not produce *general support for DNG*, but they do provide specific support for DNG files produces in-camera. Just thought I’d let others know, so that Bibble wasn’t scrapped for that reason alone. More here: http://delicious.com/lommetennis/bibble+dng+support

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:26:34 +0000

I’ve been following this tread closely, as any improvement in these workflows would be of significant benefit to me. I’ve just now tried out the Photoshop CS5 trial for its distortion correction, and can’t say it’s nearly as advanced as DxO, unless I’m not using it correctly. It would seem I’ll be stuck with DxO and its color issues for the time being. (Brandon – thanks for the color/sharpening tips, will be trying those shortly). If anyone at DxO is following this, I would enthusiastically welcome the option to simply and quickly utilise only the distortion settings, with an improved RAW conversion that would retain the natural color I find when using Adobe camera RAW or C1 with default settings (i.e., retaining camera settings).
To everyone who is posting; thanks for the stories; very helpful.