#FASTRAWVIEWER REVIEW HOW TO#
#FASTRAWVIEWER REVIEW FULL#

In other words, the raw file has almost three times as much data to work with than the JPG does. My camera is set to record raw and JPGs on different cards, and in this case the raw file was almost 30Mb and the JPG produced in camera being 11Mb at the maximum JPG quality. You can tell what's going on by looking at the file sizes of a photo file for example I just checked one that I took last month. What I mean is you can only work with what you've got, and with raw images you get everything that the sensor saw so that you have the best chance of getting the maximum from it. I'd just add that the old GIGO rule applies in this situation - garbage in, garbage out. I was unaware that XnView only uses the JPG within the DNG file - thank you for pointing this out.

#FASTRAWVIEWER REVIEW FULL#

You do need a full raw converter program such as the free darktable or raw therapee to take advantage of a raw file.Thanks for this - I usually use FastStone, and occasionally using XnView for other editing.

You do need a full raw converter program such as the free darktable or raw therapee to take advantage of a raw file. Result: I fear your approach is actually a full waste of the capabilities of the raw files.

It then also can work with those jpgs to adjust them and create a changed output.īut essentially feeding a DNG into xnview and adjusting things there is 100% the same as feeding it a jpg debeloped in the camera. Xnview can open raw files in the way that it displays the jpg images embedded into the raw file. I am not sure about irfanview, but relatively sure about faststone and xnview.Īnd I fear you are believing something wrong here… UniWB would you simply choose the desired WB in your RAW editor content in the knowledge that no channel is blown in the original image?

#FASTRAWVIEWER REVIEW HOW TO#

Some help with understanding how to us HDR scene without the HDR tonemapping most think of when composing hdr images Once you know what is happening you can apply the right corrections your raw converter I would then look at how your camera handles baseline exposure I would also look at finding a way to view your cameras raw file, this will give you a better idea as to what is contained in the raw file There would be some need to configure your camera so that you have a better representation Yes it can be done to some extent, the histogram in LV would be your best bet.

Fastrawviewer review