Experiences with Nikon RAW and dcraw?

[Heiner Lamprecht]

Hello,

does anybody here have experiences with dcraw for Nikon RAW images?

During the last weekend, I compared dcraw with the proprietary Nikon
View.  The results are a lot better using Nikon View, compared to
dcraw.

But what surprised me most is, that the images are a lot sharper and
have more details.  Does anybody have faced similar?

I requested, I can upload a sample and post a link.


Best regards,


    Heiner

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Op woensdag 15 november 2006 22:39, schreef Heiner Lamprecht:

  > During the last weekend, I compared dcraw with the proprietary
  > Nikon View.  The results are a lot better using Nikon View,
  > compared to dcraw.
I don't know about Nikon View and dcraw as a commandline tool. But I had
the same experience comparing Bibble and digiKam. But experimenting
with the IO-files settings in digiKam configuration, solved it.
Specially white- and color-balance and a Brightness of 1.10 to 1.20
helped me a lot


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[Gilles Caulier-2]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 22:39, Heiner Lamprecht wrote:

> Hello,
>
> does anybody here have experiences with dcraw for Nikon RAW images?
>
> During the last weekend, I compared dcraw with the proprietary Nikon
> View.  The results are a lot better using Nikon View, compared to
> dcraw.
>
> But what surprised me most is, that the images are a lot sharper and
> have more details.  Does anybody have faced similar?
>
> I requested, I can upload a sample and post a link.

If you take a look into NEF metadata, you will see a datadump are in
makernotes dedicaced to image stabilization correction. Of course, these data
are encrypted and unreadable easily by digiKam and co.

I supose than Nikon View will use these informations to optimize image on
screen.

Gilles
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[gustafson]

Heiner Lamprecht wrote:

> Hello,
>
> does anybody here have experiences with dcraw for Nikon RAW images?
>
> During the last weekend, I compared dcraw with the proprietary Nikon
> View.  The results are a lot better using Nikon View, compared to
> dcraw.
>
> But what surprised me most is, that the images are a lot sharper and
> have more details.  Does anybody have faced similar?
>
> I requested, I can upload a sample and post a link.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>     Heiner
>
>  

Heiner,

Can you be a little more specific about how you are using dcraw?  There
are many options.  I frequently use dcraw with Nikon nef files and I
don't have any trouble.

Pete

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

On Monday 20 November 2006 14:58, Peter Gustafson wrote:

> Heiner Lamprecht wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > does anybody here have experiences with dcraw for Nikon RAW images?
> >
> > During the last weekend, I compared dcraw with the proprietary Nikon
> > View.  The results are a lot better using Nikon View, compared to
> > dcraw.
> >
> > But what surprised me most is, that the images are a lot sharper and
> > have more details.  Does anybody have faced similar?
> >
> > I requested, I can upload a sample and post a link.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >     Heiner
>
> Heiner,
>
> Can you be a little more specific about how you are using dcraw?  There
> are many options.  I frequently use dcraw with Nikon nef files and I
> don't have any trouble.
>
> Pete
>

And you must give more details, like lens type and reference, camera type,
capture condition (settings) etc.

And if you compare dcraw with Nikon sofware, witch version you use for that ?

I don't have a Nikon camera, but a Minolta Dynax 5D. i use dcraw with all my
RAW picture (via digikam of course (:=))), and i'm very happy. I can compare
result with Minolta Win32 software...

In dcraw i always use AHD quality algoritm and Auto/camera WB settings. I'm
working in 16 bits and color management enable,  using Minolta color profile
files.

Gilles
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[Gilles Caulier-2]

On Monday 20 November 2006 15:02, Gilles Caulier(UNTRUSTED, sender is
<digikam-users-bounces-+caulier.gilles=[hidden email]>) wrote:

> On Monday 20 November 2006 14:58, Peter Gustafson wrote:
> > Heiner Lamprecht wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > does anybody here have experiences with dcraw for Nikon RAW images?
> > >
> > > During the last weekend, I compared dcraw with the proprietary Nikon
> > > View.  The results are a lot better using Nikon View, compared to
> > > dcraw.
> > >
> > > But what surprised me most is, that the images are a lot sharper and
> > > have more details.  Does anybody have faced similar?
> > >
> > > I requested, I can upload a sample and post a link.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > >
> > >     Heiner
> >
> > Heiner,
> >
> > Can you be a little more specific about how you are using dcraw?  There
> > are many options.  I frequently use dcraw with Nikon nef files and I
> > don't have any trouble.
> >
> > Pete
>
> And you must give more details, like lens type and reference, camera type,
> capture condition (settings) etc.
>
> And if you compare dcraw with Nikon sofware, witch version you use for that
> ?
>
> I don't have a Nikon camera, but a Minolta Dynax 5D. i use dcraw with all
> my RAW picture (via digikam of course (:=))), and i'm very happy. I can
> compare result with Minolta Win32 software...
>
> In dcraw i always use AHD quality algoritm and Auto/camera WB settings. I'm
> working in 16 bits and color management enable,  using Minolta color
> profile files.
>
> Gilles

I forget to said than digikam 0.9.0 include dcraw 8.41 in core. Item for
current implementation of RAW converter kipi-plugin.

Note : you don't need an external dcraw depency now (:=))))

Gilles Caulier

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