I have been using Lightroom to convert RAW files for several years without any issue. However having bought a R7 a few months ago I was not pleased with the noise and appearance of some pictures when using LR, usually taken at high ISO (max 6400). I recently tried some of these images through DPP and the results were better, at least to me. If necessary I will learn how to use DPP and output the files as TIF to use in LR for further editing.
The difference may be due to the defaults used in DPP being different to those in LR. DPP uses the default camera settings unless these are turned off. This results in eg noise reduction and sharpening being applied, whereas LR seems to start from a lower base. If I set DPP to ignore the camera settings I still end up with better results.
I would rather not introduce another piece of software into my workflow but I may have to, at least for the R7.
Does anyone use DPP rather than LR for RAW conversion? (I’m not interested in any other software).
The difference may be due to the defaults used in DPP being different to those in LR. DPP uses the default camera settings unless these are turned off. This results in eg noise reduction and sharpening being applied, whereas LR seems to start from a lower base. If I set DPP to ignore the camera settings I still end up with better results.
I would rather not introduce another piece of software into my workflow but I may have to, at least for the R7.
Does anyone use DPP rather than LR for RAW conversion? (I’m not interested in any other software).