DPP 2.0

For those of you who are getting impatient waiting for Canon to provide an upgrade to DPP 2.0, some kindly fellow has provided this post:

**link removed pending info on legality of the application release**

A few first observations - 1. The contrast setting is now an (unlabelled) slider under the histogram and provides 9 preset curves. 2. The indications of minimum and maximum histogram values (0 and 4095) that appeared on Vs.1.6 are gone, but the numbers in parentheses, -9.0 and +3.5, at the ends of the histogram (which according to Doug Kerr are stops above and below medium grey - the 0 point indicated by the darker vertical dotted line) are retained. 3. Whereas 1.6 gave 'as shot' saturation or 'Natural' color or 5 saturation presets, we now have Natural as one of the Picture Style selections and, separately, 9 levels of saturation (-4 to +4). 4. There are 11 levels of sharpening (0 to 10).

Camera parmeters become rather strange default settings for Vs. 2.0. For instance, my 350/XT parameters are: Contrast - minimum (far left), Sharpness - maximum, Saturation and Color Tone in the middle. In DPP 2.0 this becomes: Contrast - one above the minimum, Hue - 0, Saturation - -1, and Sharpness - 2 (which suggests that DPP can do much more sharpening than the in-camera processing.)
Elie

Is this for the PC or for the Mac?

downloading now - thanks for posting, I have been keeping an eye on the euro/US/jp canon sites for updates!

Thanks. I'm a big fan of DPP. Eventhough the interface of 1.6 is rather bland but I find it a robust program.

It's for Windows
Elie

Moderators -
First, let me apologize if I did anything improper by posting that link. I certainly had no desire to cause problems for the forum, only to share with my friends here what I saw only as good news.

Second, a question: Would it also be improper for me to mention that I found that link while doing a search in DPR's 1Ds/1D/5D Forum? If so, please do the appropriate deletion.
Elie

Not a problem.. it's just a "piracy" issue.
I do not believe Canon has released this software yet.

it's a grey area in this case as when it is ,. it will essentially be free anyways.. but there is still a license agreement,. and what you posted was a link that could have been a source for any sort of pirated software,. and who knows what sort of trojans/viri could be hiding in that zip file?

Therefore I would suggest caution to anyone thinking of downloading this file.

I did run a full system scan immediately after donloading and installing it (Norton AV) and I waited until several other people had reported successfull use, including Doug Kerr who is, IMO, a knowledgable and well-known contributer, Of course if Canon intends to sell the upgrade, the posting is illegal (and precedents do exist - Nikon, Minolta) but they have given no indication of this and have not done so in the past.
Elie

I didn't download it - I shall wait until Canon provides the download link. I just wanted to comment that Canon seems to take a while to release software to upgrading customers. ZoomBrowser EX 5.5 has only appeared as a download on the Canon web site in the last week or so, despite it having been around for some time.

David

DPP 2.0 has already been posted in Canon US site. Didn't download it because it seems an upgrade to the version shipped with the 5D, not sure about that though. Did anybody d/l it yet.

DPP 2.0.3 is an upgrade to any previous DPP version.

Thanks Leo.

No sweat.

Don't forget to download the update to the EOS Capture program, too, while you're at it.

What is that? Have it already but don't know what it is is it the remote capture s/w.

aam1234 wrote:
What is that? Have it already but don't know what it is is it the remote capture s/w.

Yup. I don't use it much (except to play with every once in a blue moon) but I keep it updated just in case. Ya never know when it could come in handy.