Thread: Stock camera better than FCamera?
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2012-01-07 , 08:46
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#30
Originally Posted by Estel View Post
One thing bothers me, yet. Upon loading photo to CornerFix - before even loading filter - in left part of window, it was shown with both correct white balance, and without vignette! Yet, loading it into any RAw developer (be it ufRAW, or adobe one), camera white balance is *not* available, and vignette is present. Of course, vignette can be deleted using Your profile in cornerfix, and white balance adjusted manually, but I wonder if it's somehow possible to 'get' those proper white balance, that we see in original image, upon loading it to corner fix? Or is it just some kind of thumbnail, created during JPG processing on N900, and saved into RAW .dng?

In some aspects, such file has better white balance, that I was able to get using ufRAW. nothing very important, but I really wonder if our .dng's have some data inside, that isn't properly used by RAW developers, or is it just useless thumbnail.
I'm not sure, probably as you said the thumbnail. Unless we can tap into the Nokia secret sauce I think this is the best we can do for now.

What I'm convinced of is that what we have really isn't RAW. By that I mean something is goofy because when you take photos of a properly lit scene let's say a tree in the shadow, the shadow cutoff is so much more extreme on RAW. No matter how you kick up exposure, Brightrness and it is hard to recover data from the shadows.

If you look at the JPG you see detail there and it looks fine. Significantly more data. So what does that mean? As far as i'm concerned RAW on the N900 is really not that much better than JPG and in most cases JPG will give you a better file.

As for why your guess is as good as mine.


// Edit

If I open .dng in CornerFix without choosing profile, and save it as new one (without any operation), new file - upon opening - *doesn't* show as correct white balance one. So, either such additional data are dropped during save process in CornerFix (be it some exif magic, or just useless thumbnail), or I don't get something.

/Estel
If you don't choose a profile nothing happens to the file. I'm not sure I understand your wb issues, I use Lightroom and though the wb is wrong it is easy enough to correct.
 

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