About Raw Support in Qimage Ultimate
Qimage Ultimate uses a
highly customized version of dcraw
by David Coffin, ported by Davie Lee Reed. Qimage Ultimate is designed to make the most of your raw files with no
(or minimal) tweaking. As a result, while you may have to "fight" your
other raw tools to get acceptable results, you will likely find that Qimage
renders optimal exposure and color without the need for retouching in the
majority of cases!
New for 2012 - Salvage Hazy
Shots with Auto Black Level
Ever notice how
some photos just turn out hazy and lifeless? Many times the haze (like
that shown below/left) is caused by an improper black level. Loosely
translated as the inability of the camera to pick the proper color range
based on shooting conditions, the problem is easily corrected with the
simple "auto black level" algorithm applied automatically in Qimage Ultimate
2012. With the ability to turn this feature on/off globally or for
each individual photo via the new raw refine exposure/grid selection, you'll
never again worry about hazy raw shots caused by shooting in sunlight
without a lens hood, through windows, or other "adverse" conditions.
Auto Fill Light Takes Auto Developing to the Next Level
Whether you like to tweak
each raw photo or you prefer good auto-developing, you'll appreciate the
latest feature found in Qimage Ultimate. The auto fill light feature
is a new raw developing option found in raw format options. This
feature uses a sophisticated algorithm that can actually examine the content
of your photo to make decisions about how best to expose the photo.
While prior versions already had "smart exposure", think of the new auto
fill as "smart fill light". It completes the equation of hands-free
raw photo developing by balancing the highlights and shadows based on
subject matter and even where that subject matter appears in the frame.
Give it a try and you'll see that auto fill light combined with Qimage
Ultimate's already excellent exposure control will nearly eliminate the need
to retouch your raw photos.
Custom Camera
ICC Profiles for
Many Camera
Models Ensure Ultimate Raw Photo Color Accuracy
Each ICC profile is designed to be used with a particular model
camera to optimize color accuracy when processing raw photos in Qimage Ultimate. While Qimage
Ultimate does an exceptional job of processing raw photos
without an ICC profile (better than most raw tools in many cases), adding an ICC
profile for your specific model camera is the icing on the cake as it actually
ensures color accuracy and eliminates hue shifts found in many
other raw tools.
Available for a fee of only $17.95 each, these camera
profiles take your Qimage Ultimate raw processing to the next level! When you
purchase, we send you a ZIP file that contains the profile (ICM file) for your
camera and a readme.txt file with quick installation instructions.
Installation couldn't be simpler: just unzip the ICM file, save it in your
Qimage profiles folder (usually \program files\qimage\profiles) and you're done!
Qimage Ultimate will automatically use the profile for raw photos from that particular
camera from that point forward.
Qimage
Ultimate - Lens Distortion Correction Info
Software lens distortion correction - background
Recently, some manufacturers
have been building cameras (and lenses) that exhibit severe distortion,
particularly at wide angle focal lengths. This is not an indication of
declining quality or cutting corners, however. Actually, it is a new
innovation that allows manufacturers to make smaller, less costly lenses.
By eliminating some of the lens elements that (historically) have corrected
things like barrel and pincushion distortion on zoom lenses, manufacturers are
able to focus on making high quality primary lens elements while at the same
time reducing weight and cost to the customer. Removing pieces of the lens
that normally correct distortions, however, means we now have to do distortion
correction in software: by taking the raw photo and applying a pixel remapping
to reverse the distortion.
There is some debate as to
whether or not doing this distortion correction optically or digitally gives
better results, and there is no real consensus on which makes more sense.
Technically both do the job and both methods (optical and digital) of distortion
correction will reduce lens resolution and sharpness slightly. When done
right, software distortion correction can be as effective or better than optical
compensation. If you'd like to read a little more about the concept of
software distortion correction, please see
this article.
Distortion correction WRT raw photography
Software distortion
correction complicates raw developing because the raw data in your raw photo is
actually quite distorted and such distortion must be
corrected as part of the raw developing process.
Manufacturers are now embedding information in each raw file regarding how to
apply barrel and pincushion distortion corrections to the raw data so that the
final/developed images meet the manufacturers specs. It works quite well:
in fact, the processed results typically look as good or better than traditional
lenses built to avoid the problem optically. The issue is that not all
programs can access this distortion correction data in raw photos in order to do
the correction. The publicly available solution,
dcraw for example, doesn't
read the embedded values and it displays the raw image just as it hits the
sensor: distortion and all (see below). That means that some third party
programs that use dcraw to develop raw photos will likely render distorted raw
photos when processing raw photos from cameras that need the software distortion
correction.
The Qimage Ultimate solution
After reviewing the software
solutions being used to perform lens distortion corrections on cameras that need
it, we've found that the manufacturers are doing a decent job of "hiding" the
distortion but they seem never to go quite far enough. As a result, the
wide angle end of most zooms still shows visible distortion even after the
distortion correction is applied: this is the case with all other raw developing
tools and even JPEG's produced by the camera. So rather than just match
the manufacturer specs with our own software, we've gone a step further.
We believe that if you are going to make a lens that requires software
distortion correction, you might as well do it right and
correct it completely! So
we've begun our process of beating the manufacturers (and the other raw tools)
at raw photo lens distortion correction. Below is an example (now
available in Qimage Ultimate
v2011.111):
GH1 raw photo:
14-140 lens at 14mm focal length:
Currently,
Qimage Ultimate performs lens distortion correction on the following cameras.
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Olympus |
PEN E-P1* |
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PEN E-P3* |
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PEN E-PL1* |
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PEN E-PL2* |
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PEN E-PL3* |
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Panasonic |
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DMC-G1 |
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DMC-G2 |
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DMC-G3 |
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Qimage Ultimate currently supports the following cameras.
Adobe Digital Negative (DNG)
AgfaPhoto DC-833m
Apple QuickTake 100
Apple QuickTake 150
Apple QuickTake 200
ARRIRAW format
AVT F-080C
AVT F-145C
AVT F-201C
AVT F-510C
AVT F-810C
Canon PowerShot 600
Canon PowerShot A5
Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom
Canon PowerShot A50
Canon PowerShot A460
Canon PowerShot A470
Canon PowerShot A530
Canon PowerShot A570
Canon PowerShot A590
Canon PowerShot A610
Canon PowerShot A620
Canon PowerShot A630
Canon PowerShot A640
Canon PowerShot A650
Canon PowerShot A710 IS
Canon PowerShot A720 IS
Canon PowerShot Pro70
Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
Canon PowerShot Pro1
Canon PowerShot G1
Canon PowerShot G2
Canon PowerShot G3
Canon PowerShot G5
Canon PowerShot G6
Canon PowerShot G7
Canon PowerShot G9
Canon PowerShot G10
Canon PowerShot G11
Canon PowerShot G12
Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Canon PowerShot SD300
Canon PowerShot S30
Canon PowerShot S40
Canon PowerShot S45
Canon PowerShot S50
Canon PowerShot S60
Canon PowerShot S70
Canon PowerShot S90
Canon PowerShot S95
Canon PowerShot S100
Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
Canon PowerShot SX110 IS
Canon PowerShot SX120 IS
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS
Canon PowerShot SX30 IS
Canon EOS D30
Canon EOS D60
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EOS 10D
Canon EOS 20D
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel / Kiss Digital
Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT / Kiss Digital N
Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi / Kiss Digital X
Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi / Kiss Digital X2
Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i / Kiss Digital X3
Canon EOS 550D / Digital Rebel T2i / Kiss Digital X4
Canon EOS 600D / Digital Rebel T3i / Kiss Digital X5
Canon EOS 1000D / Digital Rebel XS / Kiss Digital F
Canon EOS 1100D / Digital Rebel T3 / Kiss Digital X50
Canon EOS D2000C
Canon EOS-1D
Canon EOS-1DS
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Casio QV-2000UX
Casio QV-3000EX
Casio QV-3500EX
Casio QV-4000
Casio QV-5700
Casio QV-R41
Casio QV-R51
Casio QV-R61
Casio EX-S20
Casio EX-S100
Casio EX-Z4
Casio EX-Z50
Casio EX-Z500
Casio EX-Z55
Casio EX-Z60
Casio EX-Z75
Casio EX-Z750
Casio EX-Z850
Casio EX-Z1050
Casio EX-Z1080
Casio Exlim Pro 505
Casio Exlim Pro 600
Casio Exlim Pro 700
Contax N Digital
Creative PC-CAM 600
Epson R-D1
Foculus 531C
Fuji FinePix E550
Fuji FinePix E900
Fuji FinePix F700
Fuji FinePix F710
Fuji FinePix F800
Fuji FinePix F810
Fuji FinePix S2Pro
Fuji FinePix S3Pro
Fuji FinePix S5Pro
Fuji FinePix S20Pro
Fuji FinePix S100FS
Fuji FinePix S5000
Fuji FinePix S5100/S5500
Fuji FinePix S5200/S5600
Fuji FinePix S6000fd
Fuji FinePix S7000
Fuji FinePix S9000/S9500
Fuji FinePix S9100/S9600
Fuji FinePix S200EXR
Fuji FinePix HS10/HS11
Fuji FinePix HS20EXR
Fuji FinePix F550EXR
Fuji FinePix X100
Fuji X10
Fuji IS-1
Hasselblad CFV
Hasselblad H3D
Hasselblad H4D
Hasselblad V96C
Imacon Ixpress 16-megapixel
Imacon Ixpress 22-megapixel
Imacon Ixpress 39-megapixel
ISG 2020x1520
Kodak DC20
Kodak DC25
Kodak DC40
Kodak DC50
Kodak DC120
Kodak DCS200
Kodak DCS315C
Kodak DCS330C
Kodak DCS420
Kodak DCS460
Kodak DCS460A
Kodak DCS520C
Kodak DCS560C
Kodak DCS620C
Kodak DCS620X
Kodak DCS660C
Kodak DCS660M
Kodak DCS720X
Kodak DCS760C
Kodak DCS760M
Kodak EOSDCS1
Kodak EOSDCS3B
Kodak NC2000F
Kodak ProBack
Kodak PB645C
Kodak PB645H
Kodak PB645M
Kodak DCS Pro 14n
Kodak DCS Pro 14nx
Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c
Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n
Kodak C330
Kodak C603
Kodak P850
Kodak P880
Kodak Z980
Kodak Z981
Kodak Z990
Kodak Z1015
Kodak KAI-0340
Konica KD-400Z
Konica KD-510Z
Leaf AFi 7
Leaf AFi-II 12
Leaf Aptus 17
Leaf Aptus 22
Leaf Aptus 54S
Leaf Aptus 65
Leaf Aptus 75
Leaf Aptus 75S
Leaf Cantare
Leaf CatchLight
Leaf CMost
Leaf DCB2
Leaf Valeo 6
Leaf Valeo 11
Leaf Valeo 17
Leaf Valeo 22
Leaf Volare
Leica Digilux 2
Leica Digilux 3
Leica D-LUX2
Leica D-LUX3
Leica D-LUX4
Leica D-LUX5
Leica V-LUX1
Leica V-LUX2
Logitech Fotoman Pixtura
Mamiya ZD
Micron 2010
Minolta RD175
Minolta DiMAGE 5
Minolta DiMAGE 7
Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
Minolta DiMAGE A1
Minolta DiMAGE A2
Minolta DiMAGE A200
Minolta DiMAGE G400
Minolta DiMAGE G500
Minolta DiMAGE G530
Minolta DiMAGE G600
Minolta DiMAGE Z2
Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 5D
Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7D
Motorola PIXL
Nikon D1
Nikon D1H
Nikon D1X
Nikon D2H
Nikon D2Hs
Nikon D2X
Nikon D2Xs
Nikon D3
Nikon D3s
Nikon D3X
Nikon D40
Nikon D40X
Nikon D50
Nikon D60
Nikon D70
Nikon D70s
Nikon D80
Nikon D90
Nikon D100
Nikon D200
Nikon D300
Nikon D300s
Nikon D700
Nikon D3000
Nikon D3100
Nikon D5000
Nikon D5100
Nikon D7000
Nikon 1 J1
Nikon 1 V1
Nikon E700
Nikon E800
Nikon E880
Nikon E900
Nikon E950
Nikon E990
Nikon E995
Nikon E2100
Nikon E2500
Nikon E3200
Nikon E3700
Nikon E4300
Nikon E4500
Nikon E5000
Nikon E5400
Nikon E5700
Nikon E8400
Nikon E8700
Nikon E8800
Nikon Coolpix P6000
Nikon Coolpix P7000
Nikon Coolpix S6
Nokia N95
Nokia X2
Olympus C3030Z
Olympus C5050Z
Olympus C5060WZ
Olympus C7070WZ
Olympus C70Z,C7000Z
Olympus C740UZ
Olympus C770UZ
Olympus C8080WZ
Olympus X200,D560Z,C350Z
Olympus E-1
Olympus E-3
Olympus E-5
Olympus E-10
Olympus E-20
Olympus E-30
Olympus E-300
Olympus E-330
Olympus E-400
Olympus E-410
Olympus E-420
Olympus E-500
Olympus E-510
Olympus E-520
Olympus E-620
Olympus E-P1
Olympus E-P2
Olympus E-P3
Olympus E-PL1
Olympus E-PL1s
Olympus E-PL2
Olympus E-PL3
Olympus E-PM1
Olympus SP310
Olympus SP320
Olympus SP350
Olympus SP500UZ
Olympus SP510UZ
Olympus SP550UZ
Olympus SP560UZ
Olympus SP570UZ
Olympus XZ-1
Panasonic DMC-FZ8
Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Panasonic DMC-FZ28
Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Panasonic DMC-FZ35/FZ38
Panasonic DMC-FZ40
Panasonic DMC-FZ50
Panasonic DMC-FZ100
Panasonic DMC-FZ150
Panasonic DMC-FX150
Panasonic DMC-G1
Panasonic DMC-G2
Panasonic DMC-G3
Panasonic DMC-GF1
Panasonic DMC-GF2
Panasonic DMC-GF3
Panasonic DMC-GH1
Panasonic DMC-GH2
Panasonic DMC-GX1
Panasonic DMC-L1
Panasonic DMC-L10
Panasonic DMC-LC1
Panasonic DMC-LX1
Panasonic DMC-LX2
Panasonic DMC-LX3
Panasonic DMC-LX5
Pentax *ist D
Pentax *ist DL
Pentax *ist DL2
Pentax *ist DS
Pentax *ist DS2
Pentax K10D
Pentax K20D
Pentax K100D
Pentax K100D Super
Pentax K200D
Pentax K2000/K-m
Pentax K-x
Pentax K-r
Pentax K-5
Pentax K-7
Pentax Optio S
Pentax Optio S4
Pentax Optio 33WR
Pentax Optio 750Z
Pentax 645D
Phase One LightPhase
Phase One H 10
Phase One H 20
Phase One H 25
Phase One P 20
Phase One P 25
Phase One P 30
Phase One P 45
Phase One P 45+
Pixelink A782
Polaroid x530
Redcode R3D format
Rollei d530flex
RoverShot 3320af
Samsung EX1
Samsung GX-1S
Samsung GX10
Samsung GX20
Samsung NX10
Samsung NX11
Samsung NX100
Samsung NX200
Samsung WB550
Samsung WB2000
Samsung S85
Samsung S850
Sarnoff 4096x5440
Sigma SD9
Sigma SD10
Sigma SD14
Sinar 3072x2048
Sinar 4080x4080
Sinar 4080x5440
Sinar STI format
SMaL Ultra-Pocket 3
SMaL Ultra-Pocket 4
SMaL Ultra-Pocket 5
Sony DSC-F828
Sony DSC-R1
Sony DSC-V3
Sony DSLR-A100
Sony DSLR-A200
Sony DSLR-A230
Sony DSLR-A290
Sony DSLR-A300
Sony DSLR-A330
Sony DSLR-A350
Sony DSLR-A380
Sony DSLR-A450
Sony DSLR-A500
Sony DSLR-A550
Sony DSLR-A580
Sony DSLR-A700
Sony DSLR-A850
Sony DSLR-A900
Sony NEX-3
Sony NEX-5
Sony NEX-5N
Sony NEX-C3
Sony SLT-A33
Sony SLT-A35
Sony SLT-A55V
Sony SLT-A65V
Sony SLT-A77V
Sony XCD-SX910CR
STV680 VGA
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