Russell McMahon wrote:
> While "rolling your own" offers endless fascination, the black magic
> of RAW image processing is so arcane and the experience base from
> competent players is so vast that it is almost certainly better to use
> somebody else's converter or perhaps a GNU or similar offering. Life
> is too short and too full ... :-).

I find it hard to believe it's really all that magical.  My main reason for
probably wanting to write my own app would be to get the user interface I
really wanted.  That could be a wrapper around someone else's low level code
that converts raw files to arrays of RGB pixels with a large set of control
parameters, if such a thing exists and has the control parameters I want.

Unfortunately all photograph manipulation software I've seen is very tedious
to use and requires a lot of repetitive clickety-cliking with the mouse.  My
Polaroid scanner software is like that.  It has all the controls, but you
have to go thru all of them manually each image.  I usually figure 5 minutes
per frame to go from processed film to full res TIF file with 8 bits per
color per pixel.  They came out with "new and improved" software a couple
years after I got my scanner, but that was even worse and even more dumbed
down.

When I do get a high end digital camera I'll look into what software is out
there for manipulating raw files, but I'm not expecting to be impressed.


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