DxO Is Sponsoring the Baker's Dozen

I'm happy to relate that DxO will be helping out with our "Film" Baker's Dozen by providing a prize. (One of the people who works there reads TOP.) We'll (somehow) choose one winner who gets a free copy of DxO's award-winning photo-editing and processing software, DxO PhotoLab 8 (currently $180 on seasonal sale). Or, the winner can choose several of the partial programs up to the same value. Their other applications include DxO FilmPack (currently $70 on sale), which supplies almost a hundred film simulations (full list here); DxO ViewPoint ($90 on sale), which allows control over geometry, shape, and perspective; DxO PureRaw ($90 on sale), a demosaicing and denoising application that provides powerful lens corrections—and which I believe is considered among the world leaders in that category, if not the leader. PureRaw can be used in conjunction with Adobe Lightroom. Finally, DxO still sells the famous Nik Collection of plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and others ($110 at the moment). Here's a link to all of the above. I assume that if the eventual awardee already use DxO and wants to upgrade, they could accommodate that as well.

We'll figure out how to award this later. But of course the prize isn't the point of the group show, really; the purpose is to have fun with the theme and see what you and other people come up with. (These are a lot of fun for me too, by the way.)

As an aside, friend o' TOP Ned B., retired former president of Pentax USA, posted this on his Instagram the other day—a size comparison between a 4x5" transparency and his current "view" camera, one of his Ricoh GR's. (Currently all backordered on B&H, but Amazon has some.)

Maybe I'll just draw a name out of the hat from all of you who submit entries.

Mike

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[Jeff]

Last I inquired, a representative replied that DXO did not support monochrome sensor cameras, and had no plans to accommodate.

[For raw processing? You don't need them to. Just get a copy of Monochrome2DNG and use that as your ingestion app. Then you have beautiful B&W DNG files you can process in any editing program. --Mike]

[Jerker Andersson]

Oh, the irony, the irony! ´t would be nice to win some film though...

[Dave Levingston]

DxO is my raw processing software. Has been for quite a few years. It’s a great program. And you don’t have to buy a subscription, which I refuse to do. I just upgraded to the current version.

[Daniel]

DxO Photolab has one major problem for some of us. If you are not online it shuts down after 37 days.
Makes it unusable for those who are out of internet range/service or who don't have a work computer hooked up online.
Would love to use it but this keeps me away.

[Patrick Perez]

Ned is way ahead of me. I got a GR III w/ 20mm wide angle adapter a few weeks ago (purchased on Ricoh's site), and yesterday my black Friday OM System OM-1 w/ 12-40 f2.8 arrived. I am in process of funding them by selling my GR, My OMD-EM 1 mk ii, and a Lumix GX-85. A few hundred bucks out of pocket, but a vast increase in capability.

I've toyed with going back to a film OM-1 (I see Ned's in a plastic bag), but there is no great option where batteries are concerned. I love film, but it is more trouble to use these days than I am willing to go through.

Patrick

[Jeff]

You wrote… [For raw processing? You don't need them to. Just get a copy of Monochrome2DNG and use that as your ingestion app. Then you have beautiful B&W DNG files you can process in any editing program. --Mike]

I have zero problems processing my Leica Monochrom (original M Monochrom and M10 Monochrom) using Adobe (LR Classic or Photoshop) or ImagePrint software. DXO, however, does not support monochrome-based camera files, and has limitations regarding DNG import in general (I sent you a link from DXO yesterday explaining this). DXO also has limitations for all Leica users, as it typically delays new camera/lens support, sometimes for over a year, due to apparent difficulty in obtaining gear to test. This was the case long before Pandemic-related supply issues.

[My contact at DxO says this is correct, DxO does not do well with monochrome files. I have no problems with Photoshop. --Mike]