On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:40:40 -0500, Joel <Joel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: Joel <Joel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:
: > Robert Coe <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: >
: > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:24:00 +0000, Garry Knight
<garryknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: > > : The One wrote:
: > > :
: > > : > You do realise that post production i.e RAW conversion will
effect the
: > > : > photo quality more than actual camera quality. Are you going to
invest in
: > > : > a professional RAW converter too, to benifit your photography?
: > > :
: > > : Don't see any good reason to do so when I'm just a dedicated
amateur. I can
: > > : do RAW on my Canon S3 but I haven't found a need to do so yet. The
40D
: > > : comes with a RAW converter, but I'm not sure about the 450D.
: > >
: > > All the EOS DSLRs come with Digital Photo Professional. It doesn't
have a lot
: > > of features, but what it does do it does well. It has an unusually
easy-to-use
: > > cropping tool, and you can adjust the brightness, contrast, and
white balance
: > > directly (and independently), which always seems hard to do on JPEGs
or other
: > > non-RAW images.
: > >
: > > Bob
: >
: > *Both* Adobe LightRoom and current latest ARC can do all the options
: > available to RAW format on standard graphic formats like JPG, TIFF
etc.. and
: > as well as Photoshop which has been doing for quite sometime except
most of
: > those options are deep in several sub-menus. Because Photoshop is
photo
: > retoucher not for photographer specific so it treats these options as
: > additional.
:
: I forgot to mention that I read Canon 40D comes with RAW converter that
: quite afew people like it more than other like LightRoom, ARC etc.. some
: mention they use it for some specific need and using other for other
need's.
That would be Digital Photo Professional, the very tool I mentioned above.
It
isn't a substitute for Lightroom or Photoshop, but it works well on the
EOS
version of Canon RAW mode (.CR2), and the price is right.
: I have 3 Canon DSLRs but never installed any of the bundled software to
: know what came with the cameras.
Well, maybe you should. You might find that you like it for certain
applications.
Bob
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