Rawshooter Essentials 1.1.1 released

[Pekka]

http://www.pixmantec.com/products/rawshooter_essentials.html




What is new version 1.1.1

New functionality and improvements:

- The Processing Parameter Panel(found in the "?" menu) now includes the ability to tweak noise and
sharpening performance in respect to ISO

- Improved color rendering

- IPTC information from THM files is passed over to the output file

- Full interoperability with images stored on read-only medias and CF cards

- More reliable on-line registration

- Noise suppression (luminance) less agressive

- Less darkening when using "Outdoor" Appearances

... plus various cosmetic improvements

Additional camera compatibility:

- Support for Canon EOS Rebel XT / EOS 350D / Kiss Digital N
- Support for Minolta 7Hi


Bugs fixes: General

- File name truncation
- Files from CF card does not get corrections applied
- Can't add RAW file to batch if opened from another program


Bug fixes: Camera related

- Inconsistent interpretation of As Shot WB with minolta
- C-8080 Color mismatch
- Canon PowerShot S30 and S40 sometimes appear garbled in RSE


3. Additional update information

- RSE version 1.1.1 can be installed over RSE version 1.1 or 1.0

- Remember to select the As Shot white balance button inside RSE in order to see the effect of bug fixes related to white balance interpretation

- In order to get the fastest response in case you have questions, please use our forum.
forum.pixmantec.com


4. RAW file compatibility

This version supports RAW files from the following cameras:

Canon EOS-1Ds
Canon EOS-1D
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Canon EOS 20D

Canon EOS 10D
Canon EOS D60
Canon EOS D30
Canon EOS 300D
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL
Canon EOS KISS DIGITAL
Canon EOS Rebel XT
Canon EOS EOS 350D
Canon EOS Kiss Digital N
Canon PowerShot G3
Canon PowerShot G5
Canon PowerShot G6
Canon PowerShot S30
Canon PowerShot S40
Canon PowerShot S45
Canon PowerShot S50
Canon PowerShot S60
Canon PowerShot S70
Canon PowerShot Pro1

NIKON D70
NIKON D100
NIKON D2H
NIKON D1H
NIKON E8700
NIKON E8800
Preliminary support for Nikon D2X

Olympus E-1
Olympus E-10
Olympus E-20
Olympus E-300
Olympus C5050Z
Olympus C8080WZ
Olympus C5060WZ

Minolta DiMAGE 5
Minolta DiMAGE 7
Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
Minolta DiMAGE A1
Minolta DiMAGE A2
Minolta MAXXUM 7D
Minolta DYNAX 7D
Minolta Dimage A200

PENTAX *ist D
PENTAX *ist DS

Leica DIGILUX 2
Panasonic DMC-LC1

Preliminary Support for Epson R-D1

Lossless compressed Adobe DNG for all above mentioned cameras.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Wow,.wasn't expecting another update so fast!
Downloading now.

[Dale]

It would be great If Magne would create profiles for use with RSE.

[iwatkins]

Another one ? Wow.

Downloading now. :)

Cheers

Ian

[chris.bailey]

Thanks Pekka, hadn't thought to check again so soon. I suspect they are now working to get the commercial version ready.

[PhotosGuy]

I found this link to "I tested all the latest RAW conversion utilities that I could lay my hands on:"
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031&message=12630027
Any comments?

[Scottes]

Only the ACR and RawShooter highlights are acceptable to me. How he can say that Bibble is "excellent" with that ridiculous and obnoxious highlight is beyond me. So I place no belief in his opinions of quality.

<rant>
I'm also getting truly sick and tired of people making comments about a product's ability to "reproduce the colour of the car faithfully..." Where was the control? What was used to measure the actual color vs the reproduced color? Did the person even bother to drag the monitor near the car in that lighting and compare? What about bothering with a spectrophotometer? How did this people assess the color differences between the additive and subtractive colors differences between paint and a monitor?

I always figure that such a person simply liked the color in a particular conversion. (I also figure that they smoked a large amount of crack before comparing.) Such statements are simply ridiculous unless you're willing to break out a controlled process - for instance, using a Macbeth chart, a profiled printer, and a spectrophotometer to measure the differences between the actual item and the resulting prints. You'd also have to measure the temperature of the light involved. Anything less is simply a preference, not a measurement, and should not be taken as fact (though it so often is).
</rant>

[psk4363]

Thanks Pekka. Coming down the wires as I type.

Barry

[edmund]

I think this is where we start having to think about paying. This one is a 'Trial' version..... in the licensing agreement that you have to click to install it's talking about 15 days before it ceases to work. (At least that's my reading of it - although it does include phrases lijke, '...may cease to open' etc.) So I decided to not install at the moment.
Anybody know for sure if this is still free?

[E.C.Giorgio]

Hi Pekka!
Ok, Rawshooter is here, WONDERFULL! Now, how the "H" do I download the "D" thing, GEEZ? I'm soo frustrated, it's like waiting for the "Ketchup" to come out of the bottle,UGH! I NEED HELP~~~~PLEASE!!!

[chuckindetroit]

This software works on my IBM laptops but not on my home computers. If you run an AMD Athlon 1400mhz or slower chip it will not run as these processors don't support the needed SSE Intel instruction set. It seems they geared their software towords the Pentium and is not very backwards compattible. It may run on an Athlon XP. Their website is not very forthcoming on this issue.

[Dale]

I think this is where we start having to think about paying. This one is a 'Trial' version..... in the licensing agreement that you have to click to install it's talking about 15 days before it ceases to work. (At least that's my reading of it - although it does include phrases lijke, '...may cease to open' etc.) So I decided to not install at the moment.
Anybody know for sure if this is still free?
The author of the program has stated in his support forum it is not limited to any time frame.;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

This software works on my IBM laptops but not on my home computers. If you run an AMD Athlon 1400mhz or slower chip it will not run as these processors don't support the needed SSE Intel instruction set. It seems they geared their software towords the Pentium and is not very backwards compattible. It may run on an Athlon XP. Their website is not very forthcoming on this issue.

Er.. it was updated.. so this should no longer be a problem.. are you using the new release or the original?

[DwightMcCann]

Yup, just downloaded.

[cruzyn56]

Question regarding this software... How does one convert to jpeg? I modify the raw and put in batch.. and no jpeg. Am I missing something? I see the folder that contains the modifications.. but no "converted' folder in the diretory.

Nice software but seems to take some getting used to.

[Pekka]

Question regarding this software... How does one convert to jpeg? I modify the raw and put in batch.. and no jpeg. Am I missing something? I see the folder that contains the modifications.. but no "converted' folder in the diretory.

Nice software but seems to take some getting used to.

Top right corner: click "Batch convert" -TAB and there "more options".

[cruzyn56]

Top right corner: click "Batch convert" -TAB and there "more options".
I see that and have it set up for JPEG, Max, EXIF, apply sharpening, automatically open with thumbs7. In naming and output I have it going to the Converted directory next to the raw files. Below that is Add, Stop, Remove, Locate. I understand that the batch will run in the background, but what if I wanted to make it right away. How much time do I give it to make it? I am really missing something here...

thanks,

[ssim]

Mine starts processing as soon as you put the image in the queue. You simply have to wait for it to finish which can be seen as that image disappears from queue box. There is a thermometer meter that runs as the image is being processed so that you can see how far it has progressed or has to go. Generally it looks like it takes around 30 seconds to process an image.

Have you downloaded the pdf instruction manuals. They seem to be pretty decent.

[cruzyn56]

Got it. It helps if you "add" the image to the batch to convert. I saw the image in the column on the right side and assumed that it would be converted but couldn't figure out how to start it off. Was looking for "go" or "start".

Okay.. now I like the program much better. Maybe even better than Canon's DPP.

Thanks for the help.

[Orogeny]

Er.. it was updated.. so this should no longer be a problem.. are you using the new release or the original?

I downloaded it yesterday (3/25) and it won't run on my AMD 1400. I get an error that says that it requires a SSE enabled Intel Pentium III class cpu or better.

Tim

[RickHulshof]

It does open on my Athon XP 1700 (512 meg ram)

[picnic]

It would be great If Magne would create profiles for use with RSE.

Dale,

Magne took 2 of my RAWs (chosen primarily because I wanted to see results with greens, yellows, purples) and did a beta profile of them. He said he was only seeing what it was like to work with RSE--primarily for color, not for tonality, saturation, but he did a very good job. This was with version 1.1 I think--not 1.1.1 which seems better for greens (Michael at Pixmantic had me send one of them to him to work with greens also--and it newest version does seem better---PLUS having the ability to set up your own camera's parameters is a major plus and has helped me get closer to what I get in C1/ETC profiles without resorting to selective color masking in PS).

Here is a little gallery I did of RSE with and without Magne's 'beta004' RSE profiles
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/rse_w_etc

and here is one that I did with vs. 1.1 prior to the ability to use camera parameters comparing it to C1 with Magne's profiles (and what prompted him to try his own RSE profile). http://www.pbase.com/picnic/rse_c1

He has said that he hasn't made a commitment about buildling profiles but if he does---he will wait until RSE settles in a bit as far as new versions go.

Diane