How to get CS2 to look like C1?

PeterKrogh · #8 03-27-2006, 10:07 AM

I should make clear that I am not telling you to discard your files, but rather, that I am discarding my own RAW originals. There is a difference. I am doing this for two reasons.

First, I want to be able to say I am eating my own dog food. I'm putting myself out on a limb (a strong and secure limb in my opinion) to show how strongly I feel about the security and efficiency of DNG workflow. It solves lots of problems I have now as a working photographer, as well as a number of other problems that will show up in the future.

Additionally, the more I know about support for DNG, the more I am convinced I will be sacrificing little or nothing in the long term. Apple now supports DNG on a system level, and so will Vista. You have the choice of several other RAW file converters, with more on the way. I am most interested in C1Pro opening a DNG, as they have promised for more than a year. I'd really like to see Bibble do it as well. I believe it will be a significant market advantage for them to fully support the reading and writing of DNG files.

Canon is showing interest in some kind of after-camera DNG solution. I think Nikon will be one of the last to the table.

We'll see a lot of movement in RAW file converters over the next several years, with all kinds of editing capabilities that were formerly only available with pixel editing. The DNG format is the only solution out there that offers predictable rendering of these adjustments from application to application. Look for cool new functionality to be included in the DNG spec soon.

Peter

Alan_Ackoff · #9 03-27-2006, 01:26 PM

Peter,

Thanks for the update. I'm enjoying your book. AR turned me on to it, and I enthusiastically recommend it to everyone here.

Alan

PS. As far as keeping my original CRW files, I guess I'm a belt AND suspenders kind of guy. On the downside, archiving both formats gobbles up disc space at an alarming rate. I will consider joining you as soon as there is a high quality DNG to TIFF converter. It will be interesting if C1 gets in the water... also interesting to see the next iteration of Aperture (it already supports DNG)... and I would be surprised if Adobe doesn't find some ways to push the envelope a little farther with respect to the image quality of ACR.

Uwe_Steinmueller · #10 03-27-2006, 05:16 PM

>First, I want to be able to say I am eating my own dog food.

Have fun :-)

I use way too many RCs that this switch would even make remotely sense for me.

On the other side I was one of the first who voted for a standard raw file format and Adobe is doing real pioneer work here.

Uwe

paulschefz · #11 03-30-2006, 07:56 PM

that is a strange question...if you like the c1 look you will have to use c1...not sure which camera you are using but in my experience c1 processes canon files sharper with more detail and less shadow noise...cs2 is better than cs, but still no there...i also have to say that i am totally hooked on the c1 organisation...even kept the same folder structure when working with leaf V8 and 10...now shooting 95% phase, so i am stuck, but happy....aperture 1.1 is said to have much improved raw performance over version 1...but none of the manufacturers stand still and i have heard from someone who said that the new C1 3.7.4 rc1 produces cleaner files (can't say anything about that, i am very happy with 3.7.3 and will wait fo rthe full release)....if you like the kodachrome look, shoot kodachrome...