Magenta reds... dcraw does it right.

xbourque

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I was suspecting IR pollution in another thread I started.

Turns out something fishy is being done in the conversion from RAW to JPG (and also to .MOV) both in-camera or as a post process using Canon's Digital Photo Professionnal.

Playing with DCRAW I noticed that, unlike DPP, my problematic deep reds were being rendered as expected:

dcraw_vs_dpp.jpg

If I was only shooting RAW stills, I'd just use DCRAW and wouldn't look back. However, since we all like to shoot movies, the in-camera conversion has to be "good" since this ain't a Red One and we can't shoot RAW movies yet.

The closest thing I have found to a solution is to make a custom picture style with PSE and tweak the magenta to red. Kinda works, but not really elegant. (Especially if something really magenta is in the scene).

Anybody else noticed this?

-X
 
You should be able to adjust this in the picture style in the camera. Looks like the color tone needs more yellow. Bump it over a few points and see what happens.
 
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