BB vs. Adobe Raw?

[Dans_D60]

Are there any known advantages with Breeze RAW conversion over Adobe Raw? My current workflow has me shoot all Raw – use BB for quick review and tag candidates – next step is PS 7 with Raw plug-in (hacked for 10D). I really like the “see as you go” with PS 7 Raw. I adjust no sharpness and no smoothness. Shadows, exposure, and white balance adjustments with large real-time viewing are useful. I don’t like the batch processing. BB is much better if I’m converting a Raw batch. Question: are the algorithms in BB superior to PS 7 Raw? I have done hundreds in both and cannot “see” any difference. Your thoughts?
Dan
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(D30, D60, 10D, 50 1.4, 28–70 2.8 L, 70–200 2.8 L, 100-400 L IS, 15-30 EX, Novatron, Alien Bees, JTL ….)

[DWard]

Dan,
I don't see any differences either. One thing noted by Chris in a thread on another forum is that BB 2.6 uses Canon 10D DLLs. Apparently the are specific to the 10D RAW files. "the D60 DLLs won't work". That leads me to believe that ACR uses its own RAW conversion process. (ie ability to hack the camera name to get it to work on 10D files.)

I have done a couple of examples comparing Canon RAW conversion with ACR and see no difference. Certainly the interface is much nicer in ACR. I particularilly like the eye dropper for color balance.

I was also turned onto the ability to specify a larger image size (pixel dimensions) in ACR. That is a very nice capability and apparently the upsizing routine in ACR does a better job than the upsizing routine in PS.

One Man's View

David