Digital BW, The Print

> From: Arthur Fink [mailto:arthur@...]
>
>  From a few hours working with it ... I like it.  Certainly it's worth
> serious evaluation.

It doesn't do nearly as good a job on shadow noise as CaptureOne, and in my
opinion not even quite as good as Adobe Camera Raw. See
http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/40075602 and the following two images.
These were 1:1 crops from a pre-dawn image that had a very dark foreground.
I converted it to 16-bit sRGB with all three programs, with sharpening
turned off and other settings at their defaults. Sure, the colors look
different, but that's tweakable. The important difference is in what the
various programs do with the pattern noise from the CCD or CMOS sensor,
which you can see in the red flare area in the upper right corner. RS leaves
a lot of low frequency noise.

So I'll continue to use ACR for most images, because it functions within PS,
and haul out C1LE for the occasional difficult one.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...