Hans Hoogerhuis Posted June 4, 2023 Posted June 4, 2023 Hi All, There is a significant difference in how the RAW file looks when imported into AP if you use the Serif engine or the Apple engine. That is no news I guess. Apple RAW engine has some default settings that makes the opened RAW file a lot more in the direction of the end result that I like it to be. It is a tat warmer, a bit more pre sharpened and it looks a little more crisp, probably because of some black point and applied curves. I fiddled a bit with these settings to get the look I want, but it is just not getting there. My question is, whether someone else tried this and came up with some settings Apple applies to the RAW file by default. I want to use the Serif engine because it gives me the opportunity to have non destructive RAW processing. I use Canon 80D with CR2 files, but I have the same effect with my faithful Nikon CP P7100 and NRW files. Grtz. H. Quote
NotMyFault Posted June 4, 2023 Posted June 4, 2023 Neither Apple nor Serif RAW can read the picture profiles from Canon RAW files. For optimum quality, you need to use Canon DPP for RAW processings. Results differ in many aspects, e.g. white balance, noise reduction, lens correction for Canon lenses etc, and last but not least CA correction which is far superior in DPP. Canon has encrypted some of the metadata, making it impossible for 3rd party apps to access them. The differences are non-linear, meaning you can’t use e.g. a LUT derived from several developed version of the images to mimic the look. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected.
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