So far, I'm very impressed with the package.
I've been spending a few hours playing with my trial versions of Photolab 5 and Film Pack 6. DxO PhotoLab - DxO Forums you can either join or lurk. Now I have what I had in PL4.Another nice resource for PhotoLab is the DXO Forum. The panel takes up a lot of space because it includes author, copyright, keywords, GPS, etc, but the extra data can be hidden with the More button. This creates a new panel below the Move/Zoom box. One minor irritation was not having the image data (camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO) shown when working on a photo in Customize. I will still need to use ExifTool Gui for that.Įdit 24 Oct: I used PL5 for the first time yesterday. I do this routinely to fix the names that are not properly recorded and to copy the lens name from MakerNotes to Exif, so that it is read by Flickr. Unfortunately it still can't edit fields like Lens name. This is handy - for example you can change the date or time of the image if you discover that it was wrongly set in the camera (e.g. They both talk about keywords, and interoperability with LR and PS, but don't mention the new ability to edit the metadata. (Robin Whalley's videos about post-processing are always worth watching.) Įxcellent review of the new features in PL5 here:ĭxO PhotoLab 5 Review of New Features - YouTube
But I guess I will stay with my old Capture One Pro version 20 and save the money - maybe to support the purchase of the DFA21 Limited. I really can tell that I like DxO PhotoLab 5. So - in the end it was a good thing to investigate this software. Does it make sense to buy a DxO PhotoLab 5 license? I'm not sure about this. But at the end the lens correction modules are still the most impressive thing I'd be interested in. May be that I could get there with DxO PhotoLab 5 too. Mostly I immediately know which tools of capture one I should use to get the images how I want them. So I'm not too much interested in DxO's packages. I mostly don't use styles or standard presets. Although I could reconstruct these results nearly perfectly in capture one pro using the color editor and color balance tool I am very impressed by this.
I was surprised of the IMO very good rendering of portraits skin presentation of DxO PhotoLab without any self applied adjustments - tested with raw captures of KP and very old ones of my K5. Re: Recommendation for lighter system from FFĮ-M1.3 vs OM-1: Differences in Focus: The E-M1.3 Does a Couple Things Better.Haven't used C1 so I can't compare.Did some more tests and compared it to C1Pro 20. Hint for (some) owners of the E-M5 Mark III re AF pointsīest base settings using DXO Photolab 4 for Olympus imagesĬAF/SAF Focus Point Focus Accuracy with Telephoto Lenses (Olympus Cameras with PDAF). New 2.2 version of iWE RAW Editor (HHHR is added) The truth about the focus stacking feature of the EM-1 iiġ50-400 F4.5 PRO: Impressions For Sports / Wildlife
Manual focus tele lens techniques with m4/3 for birds and BIF's Macro Photography and the EM1 mark 2 / 60mm macro combo Using your MC-20 Teleconverter with your OLY 60mm Macro lensĭigitizing slides with Olympus 60mm macro and Olympus Capture The "preset" preview in standalone you need to make your self in DxOPL or download from a dxo forum member. When filmpack is installed you get new rendering packs and generally do not go into filmpack plugin itself which is the path you take if you use lightroom or something else for raw conversionĪgain it is even smart enough to see raw plus jpeg siblings:
Plus, if I get a decent software package, I can use it to process old files from the past 15 years or so something the Fuji camera wouldn't be able to do.įilmpack works on TIFF files is not a RAW converter so the workflow is to use Photolab first then either call the rendering from there or using the plug in if you want to access additional effects I realize I could switch over to Fuji and get the simulations "for free", but somehow the idea of spending a hundred-ish bucks on software seems cheaper than a new camera and lenses. If you have suggestions as to other film simulation type products, that would be nice too. Thanks very much for any help you may be able to provide.
Nor have I been able to find whether I can use FilmPack 5 with PhotoLab 4Ĭan anyone tell me whether I can use FilmPack to process my G9 files? And hopefully, as a plugin to PhotoLab? I'd like to get FilmPack 5 Elite, but I cannot find anywhere that positively states FilmPack 5 will process the Pany G9 RAW files. I have the latest versions of DxO PhotoLab 4 and ViewPoint 3. So, I figured a question or two to this forum might be in order.
After Googling around for half an hour, I was not able to find the info I'm after.