The end result is too smooth in some areas and too noisy in others. With the default unregistered version of Noise Ninja noise reduction tool, Bibble has a hard time getting smooth results since you can't isolate chroma and luminance noise settings. Just beats out the Bibble Pro result but it's near the bottom for sure. Chromatic aberration results are about the same as Lightroom-decent but not great.
It's good but it's not the most pleasing result of the lot, with prevalent murky noise. These pics are from my first time visiting Amsterdam and everything you've heard is true-the stairs are really steep there. To see the uncropped high-res PNG files for each conversion, click the cropped image under the software's name. Also, I didn't pick these photos because they're great pics-they were chosen because they present a variety of challenges to the RAW converters.
No tonal adjustments are done so don't look at the comparison images and think "this looks a bit washed out-the program must be crappy." This makes a quality comparison easier-we aren't comparing basic color editing features, which are pretty even across the board. Lightroom 4 (how badly would this review suck if this was missing?)Īs always, the goal of the conversions is to reduce luminance and chromatic noise as much as possible while increasing detail and getting rid of chromatic aberration, if any.
Since there isn't anything significantly different between the noise and sharpening in Lightroom 3 and 4, I'm not including results from version 3. There are plenty of RAW converters out there, but adding even one gives me about 4 more hours of work to do for these tests. It's good software and, with the exception of its lacking 64-bit support, it is definitely professional-grade. I'm going to shake things up a little and include DxO Optics Pro 7.2.1 in this comparison. Time for the professional portion of our show.
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