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teiki arii wrote:
Yes, I did. But just tried! You are absolutely right anyway. I should work on it. One of my childhood friends who is a professional photographer only swears by Capture One Pro, since the beginning.
I am sure Capture One Pro is excellent, but I think RawTherapee, Iridient and some others softwares are very good too. The trick IMHO is to better control the software you use. I am afraid I don't... 
Some thoughts about processing in another post:
I do not like LR for RAW Processing. Besides RAW process with Pentax files is worse than with Canon files. So I gave up using LR as a RAW processor. But I use it to catalog my files and for Plug-in third softwares, it's convenient.
I use DxO Prime for noise reduction (only) for (nearly) all my files and convert them to .dng files. Then I use other RAW/TIFF processors. RawTherapee, Piccure +, Iridient developer (and even LR) can process .dng files made by DxO Optics Pro (don't remember about Darktable). When converted to Tiff (for example processed in Piccure +), Iridient Developer is the only one which can fix lens distortion using LCP files for Tiff files (for my Leica-R lenses from LR) while LR itself is not able to make it (only for DNG/dng/RAW files).
Iridient Developer is a nice Raw Processor also. RawTherapee (since v5.3) is very convenient for Pixel Shift files (I just tried) but I do not use PS files for the moment. Piccure + is unreliable because of randomized results according to different files. Besides, target folders are very sensitive with pentax files, for example I used to push "lens rendering" at only between 3 and 7 (instead of 15) for not to have any artefacts... I do not really understand how it works, it's not repeatable for different pictures (different criterias/target folder results), it crashes with plug-in versions and processing is very slow compared to the others (although I have a modified MacPro 2009 hexacore W3680 with 48GB RAM and SSD, about two and half minutes to process). So I stopped Piccure+...
Iridient Developer, RawTherapee and Piccure+ use RL deconvolution, not LR.
Then I use Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 for my B&W process or Tonality CK I'm trying (made by the same team actually). I like very much Tonality CK because I can use masks and layers, I like very much Nik SEP2 for U-points. DxO team bought Nik collection and just created DxO Photolab, I hope it's a nice software rising the benefits of the two last ones (Tonality CK & Nik SEP2) at the same time... Let us see about it.
Capture One pro is an excellent RAW processor but I do not use it... Perhaps I should.
Last but not least, I think I am to buy Iridient thanks to distortion Leica-R lenses correction with Tiff files and because I like it very much working with it, very quick, very simple and very efficient. Best regards, teiki....Show more →
Another raw processor that uses deconvolution is Photo Ninja. As far as I am concerned, it beats all the other software mentioned in terms of the output that it produces, and I have used and tested them all (ACR, C1, DxO, Iridient, Raw Therapee.) PN is not a full-featured, integrated program, so it must be used in conjunction with other programs for DAM and post-conversion finishing. My only concern is that Photo Ninja is still on v.1, and I am dubious that there will ever be a v.2. Nevertheless, it is still delivers better results than any of the latest releases of other raw converters, IMO. Second best is Iridient.
Rob
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