Well, despite the bad mojo with the meagre upgrade from v1.5: I would have expected at least an upgrade in image quality to come with it. It isn’t the first time that DxO have done this either. To call that meagre list a jump from v1.x to v2.0 is a REAL stretch in my books, and screams ‘money grab’.ĭon’t get me wrong – I understand and support that software developers need to get paid, but for a ‘major’ upgrade this one comes up pretty short. It is version 1.6 at best (the last version 1 release was 1.5).įor US$80 for the upgrade (US$99) you are getting: However, there is something that doesn’t sit right with me:ĭxO have called this PureRAW 2 – in my opinion this shouldn’t have been released as a major version. OK, so I’ve sung the praises of PureRAW 2 pretty highly here, and I have purchased the software and will use it extensively in my photography workflow. Just that v2 won’t get you any better results than v1.5 What I Don’t Like In my opinion PureRAW is class leading in the files it produces. That’s not to saw that image quality isn’t good.
Image Quality?įrom my testing, there is very little, if any, image quality improvements between v1.5 and the new version. Reports from others on the internet also suggest any speed increases are pretty minimal. I don’t have the ability to test these claims as I don’t have any M1 hardware – but on my decent Windows machine, it doesn’t feel a great deal faster. Speed ImprovementsĭxO claims an ‘up to 4x’ speed improvement on M1 Hardware, or 1.5x on ‘the best windows Computers’. It didn’t make much sense to me and was a major oversight of version 1. One of my biggest gripes with PureRAW was that files couldn’t be sent directly from Lightroom.ĭxO Photolab (a full-blown Lightroom replacement) can be invoked from Lightroom, but PureRAW couldn’t (until now). Traditionally RAW processors have struggled with the X-Trans files from these cameras and it will certainly be good to now have PureRAW denosing available. This will be exciting for FujiFilm users who own a compatible camera with an X-Trans sensor. Not a very impressive list for a major version update (more on that later) – but the second item was enough for me to buy the upgrade. Workflow improvements for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop users,.Apply optical corrections, including sharpening if you choose.It will take your RAW files and do a couple of things to them (and do it VERY well). You’d be wrong The DxO PureRAW 2 InterfaceĭxO PureRAW is a RAW pre-processor. If I told you that PureRAW is a RAW processor – you’d probably imagine it looks a little like Lightroom with sliders, dials and other tools that will turn your RAW files into beautiful, polished photos. Read on to find out why What is DxO PureRAW 2? Using plenty of imagination, they called it PureRAW 2. DxO just released a new version of PureRAW.
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