is it my imagination or does the sigma 2.5 photo pro give a lot more detail and richer color than lightroom 2? it should, saving tif files as 80mb!
wayne
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wayne
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I think that photo pro does a better job than LR at converting sigma raw files too but its a bear to use, I hated it. Anyway I don't see why even bother with photo pro when you process the files to this extent.is it my imagination or does the sigma 2.5 photo pro give a lot more detail and richer color than lightroom 2? it should, saving tif files as 80mb!
wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp
I don't have my Sigmas anymore and at the time, 2 months ago, photo pro was still the only game in town, and using it was like pulling teeth for me and one of the major reasons for not keeping them. I don't know what settings you're using here but I know that photo pro is very heavy handed with sharpening but this image still looks like it has gone through some kind of post processing, either hdr or some sort of contrast enhancing plug-in.this is the first time i've used it (just loaded it myself, after someone else had written the conversion seemed better) usually i download everything with lr 2 and then convert the ones i like to tiff. then i use paint shop pro with plugins. this time i picked a few to convert with the sigma.
as i said, the tiff files huge this way, 80mb, but with a lot of info. i have the psp on a separate 64 bit hard drive so it handles the files fairly fast (4gigs of ram).
yes, the sigma a bear to use. i would suggest simply converting them without processing in the sigma. the reason to do so is the information. i don't really post-process that much, i merely try to pull out all the color and detail i can.
here's an 84% crop from the third picture. maybe that shows what i mean.
wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp
Photo Pro will give you different looking tiffs than those produced with PS or LR. The images will look sharper and seem to have more resolution and tonality. Sharpness is due to Photo Pro's very heavy handed sharpening algorithms which you can't completely turn off, the tonality is a matter of taste but like any other dedicated the system that I've tried, Sigma's own software will give you a more unique look than generic converters, you have to decide for yourself if you like it or not. It doesn't cost anything just download a copy and give it a whirl!Mazor,
Good point and I wouldn't use that for my own work. I am interested in hearing opinions about the Sigma SW. I use LR & CS3 and am happy but there seems to be a movement that finds better results the other way. The HDR stuff is not photographic to me, it looks like acrylic or oil.....Maybe cause I work with many artist...but that's what I see in it.....
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