Two tools any "raw" shooter should have

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi,

There are two tools I find most helpful, RawDigger and FastRawViewer.

RawDigger shows the raw image as it is. So, it easy to see if there are parts beyond recovery, but also how far I am from ETTR exposure.

https://www.rawdigger.com/

FastRawViewer is a very fast viewer for raw files, I use it seldom but it seems to be very useful.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/

Best regards
Erik

 

[Paul2660]

Hi,

There are two tools I find most helpful, RawDigger and FastRawViewer.

RawDigger shows the raw image as it is. So, it easy to see if there are parts beyond recovery, but also how far I am from ETTR exposure.

https://www.rawdigger.com/

FastRawViewer is a very fast viewer for raw files, I use it seldom but it seems to be very useful.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/

Best regards
Erik

Love Fast raw Viewer for sure, only wish it would view tiff and psd and become a full browser.

Paul Caldwell

 

[Wayne Fox]

Fast Raw Viewer seemed great at first, so I bought it. But then I learned that it's not really useful for checking focus because it doesn't demosiac the image properly. It appears to be dumping data for speed, and it's really not even fast with larger files.

I pointed this out to the developer and he insisted that there is secret under the hood sharpening in ACR that is apparently producing all of this missing data by algorithmic means.

I think an “empty” session file in C1 works as a nice browser and is as fast or faster than FastRawView.

Regarding the developers comment, I think what C1 and LR/ACR are doing is pretty much necessary as part of the demosiacing process. I assume he didn’t place much value on the the need of a 100% view when he wrote the program, but when browsing files this is a critical tool. Some sharpening is always required on the conversion of raw files.

While RawDigger might be handy on occasion, I’ll be honest, I really don’t care about the numbers that much. I can tell with a few slider adjustments if I’ve got a file that is interesting enough and shot well enough to work with. It’s certainly an educational tool, but all I care about is what ends up on the paper and I don’t think I need to delve into the data that deeply to accomplish that.