Digital BW, The Print

Raw Shooter Premium lets you turn the sharpening off as well as set it 
to a minimum and this works. It is much better than RSE with a really 
good curve you can edit and a few more features not present in RSE. But 
RSE is free. I think it is possible to turn off the sharpening in it 
too. However I wouldn't use RSE because I find the curve essential - 
before I swtiched to RSP I was using Capture One Pro.

Bibble does have its good points, but I didn't much like the colour it 
gave when I last tried it, and preferred the output from RSP, though 
that may well depend on the camera - I'm using a D200 at the moment, 
though I think it was a D70 when I last tried Bibble.  With RSP I very 
seldom need to touch the colour balance, it almost always looks right 
with the camera setting, and the autoexposure usually gives a pretty 
close result too. I've also looked at most of the other conversion 
programs that are available - and written some stuff about them.

But there are plenty of choices. I just get a smoother workflow with 
RSP. People who want to work in a different way might not find it so.

Regards

Peter Marshall
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Richard Smallfield wrote:
> At 09:51 AM Tuesday 5/9/2006, you wrote:
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>> Ditch Photoproject. If you are using a Mac, download the Adobe Lightroom 
>> beta. If not, try Raw Shooter Premium, or possibly Nikon Capture. 
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> I found that Raw Shooter Essentials oversharpened, even with the sharpening set to its lowest setting - I was getting fringing along edges, but with Bibble I've had no such problems and also the colours are better interpreted. Bibble Lite isn't too expensive, either, and is quite comprehensive.
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> Good luck,
> Richard 
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