SonyPixelShift2DNG (Beta 0.8.4): Convert Sony A7R-III Pixel Shift Mode Shots to DNG

Submitted by LibRaw on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 13:21

In order to streamline the workflow with the raw shots taken in the new Pixel Shift Multi Shooting mode offered by the new Sony A7R-III camera, and provide a way to use popular RAW converters (Adobe Camera Raw/Lightroom, Capture One, and some others) for processing these shots, we’ve developed the SonyPixelShift2DNG application, which converts Sony A7R-III shots taken in Pixel Shift mode to DNG.

The resulting DNG files can later be processed in familiar applications like Adobe Lightroom / Camera Raw, CaptureOne, Iridient Developer, Luminar, and others.

One Way to Get Spot-On Exposure for Your Shots

Submitted by Iliah Borg on Thu, 12/28/2017 - 20:20

The shot taken with spotmeter exposure and +3 EV in-camera correction, opened and adjusted in FastRawViewer

Every day one can see threads on photographic forums where members discuss the various different modes of automatic exposure, trying to find the perfect one. As a rule, these discussions result in the same question – what compensation to automatic metering ought one set to get consistently good exposure? It turns out that no autoexposure mode universally guarantees good out-of-box results.

We are planning to demonstrate that one of the ways of getting good exposure is metering while using the in-camera spotmeter on the lightest part of the scene that needs to maintain full detail (white clouds, snow, etc.) and applying the appropriate compensation to the exposure recommended by the spotmeter.

Can you Evaluate Exposure Using the In-camera Histogram?

Submitted by Iliah Borg on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 12:31

They say that "a histogram is a graphical representation of the pixels exposed in your image" or "when judging exposure, the primary areas of the histogram to be concerned with are the right and left edges".

We are going to demonstrate the following:

In-camera histograms don't really allow one to analyze the shadows and highlights zones of an image.
An in-camera histogram changes significantly with changes in the camera settings such as contrast, picture style, brightness, etc.

So, no. By no means can the in-camera histogram be used by a RAW shooter to evaluate exposure.

RawDigger 1.2.23

Submitted by LibRaw on Fri, 11/24/2017 - 02:17

What's new:

Camera support added:
Canon G1 X Mark III, EOS M10
Panasonic DC-G9 (only standard compressed raws, high-res mode is not supported yet)
PhaseOne IQ3 100Mp Trichromatic
Sony A7R-III, DSC-RX0
Preferences - Display Options - Display RGB render in RAW colors replaced with new option Preferences - Display Options - Camera color profile