{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/dxo_95","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2014-11-24T13:46:48.264Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2014-11-24T13:46:48.264Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"DxO Optics 9.5: Awesome optics, glaring UI flaws\",\n  \"entityId\": \"0533c1c0-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"0533c1c1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {},\n  \"sidebar\": \"I finally finished editing this just as DxO 10 came out. I decided to publish it as-is and then see what I thought about DxO 10\\\\. So stay tuned for another DxO Optics article. :)\",\n  \"description\": \"I mostly hate image organization and RAW conversion tools.  Part of the problem is that the RAW conversion is a moving target.  Every RAW format is a bit different, which is going to make life living hell for the archivists of 2100.  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Every RAW format is a bit different, which is going to make life living hell for the archivists of 2100\", \".\", \" And new features have been added to the RAW conversion as time has gone on \\u2014 many modern digital lenses are designed for some degree of optical deconvolution at the RAW conversion stage.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I spent some time working on a tool that would simply organize photos, but that turned out to be too much of a headache. Thus, I use Adobe Bridge for organizing TIFF scans of film and then I use the Olympus tool to organize RAW folders. Adobe Bridge CS4 doesn\\u2019t support the RAWs from my Olympus. In fact, if I point it at a folder of Olympus RAW photos, it will go into a mode where it spins up the CPU for no reason. The Olympus tool, on the other hand, randomly crashes and it only handles Olympus RAW files.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The plan was that I was going to buy myself a copy of DxO optics and use it to organize and process my images.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Let\\u2019s start positive. The DxO Optics RAW conversion is great. DxO characterizes lenses and bodies on an optical bench and uses this to tweak de-convolution algorithms to remove as much of the optical flaws as possible. The noise elimination works better than the Olympus tool. It has corrections for camera tilt and also perspective distortion. It also has shadow and highlight controls, so that extremely contrasty scenes have the highlight regions darkened and the shadow regions brightened.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Instead of trying to convert each camera\\u2019s RAW the way the manufacturer set up the \\u2018look\\u2019, it tends to have a DxO look. They actually thought through a lot of the slider controls. You can control micro-contrast separately from overall contrast, and non-skin-tone-saturation separately from overall saturation.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"They also don\\u2019t force you to wait. You feed in your non-destructive editing commands and then when you select \\u201CExport to disk\\u201D they put it in a queue.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"So, as a RAW converter, it\\u2019s very much to my liking.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Now, the downside: The problem with every single RAW converter is that no user is going to let it stay as just a RAW converter. We end up wanting it to be a RAW converer and Digital Asset Management tool. You have to be able to peek into a RAW image anyway in order to generate a thumbnail, so every DAM needs to have some degree of RAW conversion. And you end up saying \\u201CGee, I\\u2019m going to tweak this image\\u2026 no, looks like I managed to screw this one up the more I look at it\\u2026 well, what about this other image.. how does that look after I fix that problem?\\u201D and you end up wanting to compare images and look at folders of thumbnails. There\\u2019s no way to side-by-side compare images. And there\\u2019s not a proper thumbnail cache that keeps the thumbnails around so you end up waiting for DxO to regenerate the thumbnails all the time.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Even worse: If I point it at a folder of edited images that don\\u2019t have EXIF information, it refuses to even try and display them.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Really annoying: The drag-and-drop only works within the application. 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