Today I played with two pretty interesting applications: dcraw and SharpRaw. The former one is a free open source application, which, unfortunately, works only in a command mode on PC or in X11 environment on OS X. The latter, however, is a full-featured commmercial product, currently available for Windows only, but the manufacturer Logical Designs promises a cross-platform Java version in the near future. After developing some files shot at ISO 400 and ISO 100 I became totally enraged with Kyocera. The files t ISO100 are smooth as a baby's behind (or perhaps even smoother), and at 400 they have noise that is easily desaturated with Quantum Mechanic Pro and looks just like film grain.
For those who do not have time for playing in the command mode, $99 for SharpRaw is not that bad at all, considering that it supports virtually all digital cameras.
www.logicaldesigns.com/Download1.htm
For those who do not have time for playing in the command mode, $99 for SharpRaw is not that bad at all, considering that it supports virtually all digital cameras.
www.logicaldesigns.com/Download1.htm