That website makes me nervous. Does not look official Adobe. And the Adobe site mentions nothing about 2.6.
No worry, it\'s the real deal. Mazing is gone with 2.6rc.
first peek with it and mazing is utterly gone with Paul\'s better copy and even seems to be all but gone on my copy
artifacting appears to be far better controlled at all ISO than with ACR 5.5 AND DPP AND C1v5 (I would rank them ACR 5.6 >> C1v5 > DPP > ACR 5.5 in terms of 7D artifacts)
i need to check noise and sharpness to see if it is cheating anything though, first peak from memory is that it might be good though, but a subtle averaging could be washing away fine low contrast details or who knows what or maybe it adds noise but randomizes it or maybe they found a way to read mask areas and do multi-pass adaptive algorithms using hyper-local avgeraging and comparing with unaveragere blends etc.
so there is still a chance it is cheating away noise by losing resolution or it gets around it but some bodies will still have as much as 50% or more noise than other bodies even if it at least is of a nice appealing looking form now, but hopefully it is fully the real deal, remains to be seen, tenatively it feels good
again i need to go check to be sure but from memory, it appears that ACR 5.6 is devastatingly better with the 7D than any other converter and that includes DPP and C1v5. gain this is from memory but it seems to be on another planet compared to even DPP and C1v5, at least with 7D, but again take that with a huge grain of salt, i need to compare directly and a lot more different types of scenes.
IMO, most, if certainly not all, 7D are not of entirely acceptable quality using DPP, totally not using ACR 5.5 and pretty borderline with C1v5, perhaps ACR 5.6 will do it though (of course those invested in DPP or C1 are to varying degrees kinda left a little screwed unless they happen upon a copy getting to closer to Paul\'s or not very picky)
Nov 19, 2009 at 12:11 AM
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