Just asked Bibble whether you can simultaneously have Bibble installed on Linux and Windows on the same machine under one licence and they said yes. Still waiting to hear back on v5 and on how exactly it's implemented. Looks good, though. Have started to dual boot Ubuntu and am coming to really like it - will probably never meetv all my needs, but I'd like to use it the majority of the time, only reverting to Windows when absolutely necessary. Evolution and Open Office are as good or better than the Microsoft equivalents, and free.
It's not available yet but it says if you buy 4.1 now you get a free upgrade to 5. I bought 4 about a year ago - I wonder what discounts they will offer.......
Looks interesting, but at the end of the day I'd have to test the basic image quality. Not all raw processors are equal when it comes to demosaicing, colour, etc.
shirozina wrote:
It's not available yet but it says if you buy 4.1 now you get a free upgrade to 5. I bought 4 about a year ago - I wonder what discounts they will offer.......
I bought BibblePro 4.x in June '07, and was promised a free upgrade to 5.
foto-z wrote:
Looks interesting, but at the end of the day I'd have to test the basic image quality. Not all raw processors are equal when it comes to demosaicing, colour, etc.
I was always underwhelmed by Bibble's ability to extract detail and the colours weren't great. Hopefully v5 is much better.
It's anounced but not available so we will have to wait and see. ACR and DPP are unusable for for me for generating images for stitching because of their crude demosaicing which creates stairstepping on edges which then get massively enhanced when the images are warped. That's why I use C1 at present.
Pixel Perfect wrote:
I was always underwhelmed by Bibble's ability to extract detail and the colours weren't great. Hopefully v5 is much better.
You haven't tried it in a while then. Phil Askey of DPReview states: “The image with the most resolution and fewest artifacts appears to be that produced by Bibble Pro”.
shirozina wrote:
It's anounced but not available so we will have to wait and see. ACR and DPP are unusable for for me for generating images for stitching because of their crude demosaicing which creates stairstepping on edges which then get massively enhanced when the images are warped. That's why I use C1 at present.
Many aspects of Bibble have been reworked, including both demosaicing and sharpening.
The quality of the processing in 4.10 is incredible and 5 will only be better.
I've used 4.10 and even with various sharpening methods it can't quite extract the level of detail that C1 can. I was also similarly underwhelmed by its colour reproduction and it's tonal qualities. I'll definaley give 5 a run though.
foto-z wrote:
I'll download the tryout. Nothing to lose.
5 is going to be much different than 4.10, so try to hold your judgment till 5 is available.
5 isn't just about new features, it is about 2 years of user feedback and requests, and much of the internals have been completely re-written, new algorithms developed, etc.
I really wanted to like Bibble, except for the undo and a few other UI quirks I couldn't get used to over three separate trials. NN is a great tool for a raw converter. The batch speed is also outstanding.
I just plunked down some $$$ for LR2 boxed version that I can return in case B5 works out.
