SeattleDucks
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Hi All,
I'm a landscape shooter using primarily 4x5 film for the last ten years and during that time have dabbled in DLSRs (Canon 5D, Nikon D200/300/700) but was never satisfied with the output for 16x20 + print sizes until I added the fanatstic A900 system a few months ago. One thing I have noticed DLSR's fall short in compared to my 4x5 lenses is chromatic abberation - even the best pro glass I have used from Nikon, Canon, and Zeiss/Sony can show some CA on certain outdoor scenes and my files are noticeably cleaner/sharper when I correct this using the auto CA tool in the trial version of C1 Pro. (I realize that CA can be so slight much of the time that many of you don't even notice or bother especially if you are not printing big, but if you are a demanding/picky user and CA is something you remove then please read on).
My dilemma is that I want to start using RAW Developer as my standard converter due to its incredible extraction of detail and advanced deconvolution sharpening, but there is no CA tool. What are my options for handling CA and still using RD? Will a converter like DxO which has a CA removal tool allow me to resave the Sony RAW file after correction so I could then reopen it in RAW Developer to finish? Or do I use RAW Developer for conversion and then do manual CA removal in Photoshop? I use CS2 (soon to be CS4) for a traditional layered workflow to prepare the files for fine art print output.
Thanks for any ideas here.
Cheers,
Ross
I'm a landscape shooter using primarily 4x5 film for the last ten years and during that time have dabbled in DLSRs (Canon 5D, Nikon D200/300/700) but was never satisfied with the output for 16x20 + print sizes until I added the fanatstic A900 system a few months ago. One thing I have noticed DLSR's fall short in compared to my 4x5 lenses is chromatic abberation - even the best pro glass I have used from Nikon, Canon, and Zeiss/Sony can show some CA on certain outdoor scenes and my files are noticeably cleaner/sharper when I correct this using the auto CA tool in the trial version of C1 Pro. (I realize that CA can be so slight much of the time that many of you don't even notice or bother especially if you are not printing big, but if you are a demanding/picky user and CA is something you remove then please read on).
My dilemma is that I want to start using RAW Developer as my standard converter due to its incredible extraction of detail and advanced deconvolution sharpening, but there is no CA tool. What are my options for handling CA and still using RD? Will a converter like DxO which has a CA removal tool allow me to resave the Sony RAW file after correction so I could then reopen it in RAW Developer to finish? Or do I use RAW Developer for conversion and then do manual CA removal in Photoshop? I use CS2 (soon to be CS4) for a traditional layered workflow to prepare the files for fine art print output.
Thanks for any ideas here.
Cheers,
Ross