Re: Adobe vs DaVinci RAW Converter
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:38 am
I agree that -5 is a little bit crazy but it proves the point that there IS the information in the raw file and it can be recovered, adobe can
What more, if you download the whole package with all the frames there are other frames where the exposure is darker. I like best one that is a little bit less exposed, where i go only -2.5 and some highlight recovery so that I don't have to push the shadows that much. The information in the highlight (even if -2.5) is perfectly there in the raw file.
On the other hand, if you take a darker frame where you just use -1 or even no exposure correction at all just some highlight recovery and then push the shadows it gets VERY noisy. So overexposing or exposing that the highlights are just not clipped in the raw seems to be the best idea. As far as I know what you see/get in Lightroom is a 8 bit image, therefore if you expose it so that the highlights are just not clipped in the raw you have to bring the exposure down to map it to the 8bit colorspace, correct me if I'm wrong, not sure about this one
What more, if you download the whole package with all the frames there are other frames where the exposure is darker. I like best one that is a little bit less exposed, where i go only -2.5 and some highlight recovery so that I don't have to push the shadows that much. The information in the highlight (even if -2.5) is perfectly there in the raw file.
On the other hand, if you take a darker frame where you just use -1 or even no exposure correction at all just some highlight recovery and then push the shadows it gets VERY noisy. So overexposing or exposing that the highlights are just not clipped in the raw seems to be the best idea. As far as I know what you see/get in Lightroom is a 8 bit image, therefore if you expose it so that the highlights are just not clipped in the raw you have to bring the exposure down to map it to the 8bit colorspace, correct me if I'm wrong, not sure about this one