AlphaNumerique made an unsual but very interesting test with the Sony A900. Their goal was to find out which RAW converter works best. They used Lightroom, DxO, Bibble, C1Pro, Aperture, IDC, ACDSee, SILKYPIX, Lightzone and Raw Developer.
And the winner is…Adobe Lightroom
Source: AlphaNumerique (google english translation)
5 Responses
oh yes, i also use Adobe Lightroom!
Sorry, what is IDC: the Sony Image Data Converter?
I think Image data converter is the best, but rarely use it since it’s not very effective workflow, like ACR6.1 & PS.
LR3 is the best, but advantages is not properly shown in the test. LR3 instead of other converters preserve much more details even after noise reduction.
Results with Raw Developer and C1 Pro for the A900 are much better, open a Raw file in both programs and compare details and colors in both programs. LR3 design just looks better and has more fancy slides. Trust yourself and try it out for yourself. The difference between LR3 and Raw Developer looks far from the truth. Don’t be fooled!