Canon DPP

[JohnT]

Just for the heck of it last night, I loaded Digital Photo Professional to play around with some raw files. I normally use RSP but thought I'd try something else out of curiosity. Anyone here use DPP on a regular basis?

[Roy]

I've had it loaded for sometime now. Hardly ever use it so I'm no expert for sure.

Still shooting jpg for the most part. I shot raw for a while and didn't really see all that big a difference. I'm sure to be in the minority on that issue. All I saw was what could be changed if it needed it vs jpg. No doubt I'm missing something by not going raw. It just hasn't shown up for me.

[sbp]

I use it lot.
When I have few hundred photo I edit one copy. Copy that setting and then apply to selected photos. Then I mark them and save that with settings.
Then I do batch converted. while it is converting i am still able to access other thing as this does not take that much cpu /memory.

[gpbusa316]

I use DPP almost all the time... although I have ACR and have tried RSE, I keep coming back to DPP when I shoot RAW. Probably 85% to 15%, DPP to ACR, when converting RAW to TIFF.

For me the settings in DPP seem to work better and/or produce better results with the Canon RAW files. I have nothing scientific to base this on, but to my eye DPP seems to do the better job. Also, my adjustments to the RAW files are only to Exposure, White Balance, and "Picture Style". With an occasional (small) use of sharpening and saturation. Anything beyond this I do in CS2.

[skdupre]

I've used DPP, but have gravitated to Adobe Camera Raw. They both seem to do a great job.

Nothing against DPP. ACR just gives me more control over the image so that is why I use it more. I like the cropping tool better - the way it automatically changes from vertical to horizontal depending on how you drag it. I like to add the vignette on uncropped images, which saves me time (not having to add it in PS). I sometimes use the "shadow" adjustment in ACR to open up or darken in shadow areas.

I always use the "Save" feature in the editing mode to batch out my images. It seems to work best for me. I primarily photograph weddings so I'm batching out at least three hundred images each weekend I have a wedding.

Occassionally, ACR has trouble reading some of my RAW files. My last wedding of 400 shots 8 of them were unrecognized in the ACR browser. However, they would view in the editing mode (not sure why). Anyway, I opened them up in DPP and all images were viewable in the browser so the Canon files seem to read better in DPP. I'm going to slow down a bit while the file is being written in the camera and see if I can eliminate those unrecogniable files. It occurred on two different CF cards both Sandisk Ultra II.

Sean

[steve817]

I have found DPP pretty user friendly. I did like the file viewer utility that came with my 10D better though.

[snidow]

I use it all the time too, seems to work better converting the raw to jpg for me.

[JohnT]

Thanks, everyone. It seems like a good program so I'll keep DPP in my tool box.