Hi,
I am in a similar situation, where I cannot find the right raw converter and digital photos suite for my sony a700 (firmware v4).
Here is my question (which might be dummy, but I can't find any answer on the forums):
Which raw converter will give me the same result as the jpeg produced by the a700 ?
- I know that a raw file means a file without any "processing",
- the sony image lightbox software is the only one that opens the ARW file with the same "in camera" processing as the jpeg. I understand that this "in camera" processing might be proprietary, but I am sure that other programs can read that information and process the image properly...
- I tried the following programs, and none of them can give me the same output as the sony software : Adobe bridge (ACR), Lightroom 2, Raw Therapee, RawHide, and Bibble pro.
- The sony lightroom is really not an ideal software (slow, clunky, etc.) and that is why I don't want to use it. But so far, I cannot find any raw converter which gives me the same output as sony lightbox ?
I am looking for some kind of converter/editor which would have the sony a700 profile already setup in order to produce the proper jpeg output wihtout having to manually setup the the converter ? (because frankly there are way too many settings to tweak to be able to match what the jpeg output is doing). With that converter, I will be able to change some processing settings on the image without "re-applying" the ones that the camera has already done.... (because I like the in-camera processing, but sometimes I want to make some adjustments)
Is it clear ?
It's been a month that I have been looking for any information on that topic.
Any help would be appreciated !
Thanks in advance,
Philippe