January 27th, 2008 by Serge
On the 24th of January Rawstudio has released version 0.7 of its RAW image processing application. Most important new feature may well be its ability to demosaic RAW images.
Demosaicing is in fact colour reconstruction. Because the sensor elements of a digital camera cannot save the colour information, a filter grid is used so that each sensor element only detects red, green or blue (other separations are used as well). To take advantage of the full resolution of the sensor the colour of each pixel has to be estimated by using the colour information of the other pixels around it. That process is called demosaicing.
Serge, thanks for this pointer. I’ll look into rawstudio and give it a try.
What a pity. It’s not available for windows users.
I’ve tried UFRaw combined with Gimp which worked great.
Working with Raw files is an interesting element in photography!!!
You should use a REAL operating system!
Power to the Penguin!
@GS
If your concern is demosaicing, do not worry. UFRaw already supports it. It is the interpolation setting.
@Rolf. My critisism at operating system windows (Vista) and IE is that developers are so paranoia that the build such a sloooooow system.
It ought to be a user-friendly system. Sure it has nice features and lay-outs but over-all they didn’t progress with the new system in my(!) opinion.
@Serge and Rolf I’m hoping and trying to progress in photography by following the episodes, advices and comments and extracting the things I need. Although Gimp has not all the features like Photoshop, for me, novice, it has enough. Regards.
If this question has been answered in a later posting than please ignore this post.
I am wondering what everyone feels about UFRaw versus Rawstudio.
That is a tough one.
UFRaw has (still) a finer control about the output and Rawstudio is cool for more than one image. The interface is better too – but UFRaw has caught up with the last release.
I am undecided – let there be a fierce competition!