DPP have a unique feature which may be useful in some situations, it can save in canons raw format, so you can make eg white balance and colour adjustments, save a copy as a .cr2 file, and continue as usual in LR or ACR.
From what I'm seeing, there is literally no reason to use DPP over free editors like Darktable. Darktable (provided you use LUTs for channel swapping and color inversion) has everything you could wish for and more. It has extreme amount of control over what exactly is happening to the RAW file. Most that I've seen in any editor. It even allows you to forego demosaicing all together, which works great for 850nm+ images and gives you better noise performance. As if you were using a bayerless camera.
I've used DPP, occasionally, over the years to import a raw file, as a TIFF, directly to PS. This technique allows the raw file to load with the characteristics of your camera's JPG settings. Andrew Gibson offers an 80-page eBook titled "Understanding DPP", which I found useful. Rob, could you share the settings of your Canon? I really like your starting point. Thanks for your infrared efforts - always inspiring. Dan
Thanks for the encouragement - I did try to download DPP4, and I was refused when I was asked for a serial number. All my cameras are older, and not the latest file type. I'll try again, and see if I can come up with a workaround.@@drhoward53
DPP have a unique feature which may be useful in some situations, it can save in canons raw format, so you can make eg white balance and colour adjustments, save a copy as a .cr2 file, and continue as usual in LR or ACR.
From what I'm seeing, there is literally no reason to use DPP over free editors like Darktable. Darktable (provided you use LUTs for channel swapping and color inversion) has everything you could wish for and more. It has extreme amount of control over what exactly is happening to the RAW file. Most that I've seen in any editor. It even allows you to forego demosaicing all together, which works great for 850nm+ images and gives you better noise performance. As if you were using a bayerless camera.
I've used DPP, occasionally, over the years to import a raw file, as a TIFF, directly to PS. This technique allows the raw file to load with the characteristics of your camera's JPG settings. Andrew Gibson offers an 80-page eBook titled "Understanding DPP", which I found useful. Rob, could you share the settings of your Canon? I really like your starting point. Thanks for your infrared efforts - always inspiring. Dan
Dang, just went to download DPP4, and found it isn't compatible with my old DSLRs (70D, 20D, T5). Thanks, anyway, for the inspiration. Dan
This image is from a Canon SL1 590 nm conversion, which I sold. I don't remember the picture settings used.
@@robshea Oh, well...thanks for the reply. Nice clean image.
@@danyeager7561 Perhaps you missed something. DPP 4.17.30 is running just fine with RAW files from my T3i. The A7V is another story though . *grin*
Thanks for the encouragement - I did try to download DPP4, and I was refused when I was asked for a serial number. All my cameras are older, and not the latest file type. I'll try again, and see if I can come up with a workaround.@@drhoward53
I only use DPP where I have to; it is too convoluted of a UI to use per se IMNSHO!