Dragos101
Mu-43 Regular
Hi everybody,
I'm a bit of a postprocessing geek and love to fiddle with all RAW processors and see what options are there.
A few months ago I discovered and learned Darktable, which I promoted here and got some very interesting feedback and discussions. I since dialed some very good presets and established a very convenient workflow with it. I still find it extremely good and extremely competent, its advantages being much much more than being free.
I never payed much attention to Silkypix, somehow feeling that it's just a limited "bundled" grade software, similar to OV3 or Capture-NX for Nikon. But the geek in me couldn't resist and gave it a try.
I'm impressed. The out of the box look and the various color presets are stunning. I've never seen such glowing and refined skin tones. It seems to take everything that's great about the Oly rendering and enhance it with some superb and detailed color.
The interface is a bit clunky and the Highlight/Shadow recovery capabilities are below the industry standard LR. But they get the job done for "normal" pictures where you just want to pull a bit more dynamic range from the file.
The v7 has just been released adding some nice features and enhancing the Hi/Sh tools - they are now almost as good as LR.
The full v7 is expensive. The standard non Pro V6 is now at a very accessible 50Euro and is very tempting if you are ok with the more limited features. I may be crazy, but I'm having a VERY hard time not taking out my credit card and making the most expensive software aquisition I've ever done for my personal needs.
I'd love to hear if anybody else has tried it or is using it and what are your oppinions.
Best
I'm a bit of a postprocessing geek and love to fiddle with all RAW processors and see what options are there.
A few months ago I discovered and learned Darktable, which I promoted here and got some very interesting feedback and discussions. I since dialed some very good presets and established a very convenient workflow with it. I still find it extremely good and extremely competent, its advantages being much much more than being free.
I never payed much attention to Silkypix, somehow feeling that it's just a limited "bundled" grade software, similar to OV3 or Capture-NX for Nikon. But the geek in me couldn't resist and gave it a try.
I'm impressed. The out of the box look and the various color presets are stunning. I've never seen such glowing and refined skin tones. It seems to take everything that's great about the Oly rendering and enhance it with some superb and detailed color.
The interface is a bit clunky and the Highlight/Shadow recovery capabilities are below the industry standard LR. But they get the job done for "normal" pictures where you just want to pull a bit more dynamic range from the file.
The v7 has just been released adding some nice features and enhancing the Hi/Sh tools - they are now almost as good as LR.
The full v7 is expensive. The standard non Pro V6 is now at a very accessible 50Euro and is very tempting if you are ok with the more limited features. I may be crazy, but I'm having a VERY hard time not taking out my credit card and making the most expensive software aquisition I've ever done for my personal needs.
I'd love to hear if anybody else has tried it or is using it and what are your oppinions.
Best