tomsi42 wrote: could it be a Canon profile problem?
Could be - like many others, I've been plenty critical of Bibble/ASP's handling of Canon files in the past and it's apparent bias towards Nikon (which I remain convinced is down to its beta testers being Nikon users in the main - certainly, the only two people I
know to be beta testers are both Nikon users). I'm not suggesting a deliberate bias, but that things were signed off
because they worked with Nikon files without there being any meaningful testing on Canon files), so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if this was at
yet another example of disadvantage to Canon.
It's not as if Canon is a niche player, so if this
is a Canon-specific failing on ASP's (and Bibble's before it) part, someone's head really should roll - it's incompetence in the extreme for a converter to be released that fails so comprehensively to convert files from the biggest name in the camera market: and going way back into Bibble's history, there's plenty of evidence that it - and now ASP - are just
hopeless with Canon files.
Suffice it to say, I've got thousands of files that are very
ETTR (I deliberately shoot this way because I'm confident of the HR abilities of my converters - it's the main thing I choose them for), the hot highlights of which Lr and Photo Ninja deal with without breaking into a sweat (the example above is entirely typical of what I'm able to do with a capable converter); whereas in ASP highlights are turned into featureless grey (and frequently pink) crap.
Even DxO Optics, which hasn't got the best HR, deals with highlights in a far more graceful, aesthetically satisfying way than ASP; and now even Capture One, which used to be pretty abysmal too, has left ASP in the dust.
What p1sses me off most of all is that - as I've mentioned
many times - there are loads of really effective open source highlight recovery algorithms out there that could easily be plugged in to ASP, and which would improve its HR performance exponentially (that's how the likes of Raw Therapee and Photivo - both FOSS - can stomp all over ASP here); but here we are, years later,
still waiting.
ASP really is a joke.
