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What commandline arguments are you using Mark ? I have just given dcraw a quick go and it is blowing more highlights than the in camera processing does.


My camera seems to have a habit of blowing highlights, whereas dcraw (version 1.340) seems to do well at preserving them. The camera is set to Adobe colour space, which (in theory) makes no difference for RAW files.

I am creating "equivalent" full size JPG files using this:

dcraw -c -w -H 0 -o 1 xxxxx.cr2 | cjpeg -quality 98 -optimize -progressive > xxxxx.jpg

I'm not sure, but the -H 0 -o 1 flags may be the same as the defaults.

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Also, are you applying a separate step to sharpen the images. The images coming out of dcraw are somewhat soft compared to my jpegs.


Yeah, no sharpening at all this way. I'm still looking for a nice solution to that -- there must be something in the netpbm package that does it, but I have not yet found it.

Cheers