Hello Gents Latest news, as I could not crack the SilkyPix Protection :( and due to the high value of Euro, I bought a full home version..... Although one find good tips in the manual, reading it is compulsory as the software is not intuitive. Er, the MMI is disposed a different way from common softwares. I had a couple of RAW, one from the SP Tamron and the other from the Vario Elmar. Against all odds, the Tamron is not that bad (it was really OK with a film base) but in digital, the Vario Elmar shows it off. The picture is my neighbour's balcony decoration, we call it Sarko's Cat, be warned, each are 2 meg. With the Tamron SP: http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/Test/_1020267_dev_SP_NK.jpg With the Vario Elmar 80-200 http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/Test/_1020264_dev_vario_NK.jpg Both were processed in silkypix the same way. My conclusions? The Tamron SP is giving chromatic blurried edges and there is a slight color cast while the colors are better rendered by the vario Elmar and the edges are sharp. In fact Silky pix can dissolve a lot of blurr and chromatic aberration. To see what I mean you need to look closely at the pine cone in the bottom of the image. And the image has been worked out. the original image from Tamron showed a lot more defaults in the details. To demonstrate the power of Silkypix, I have reworked the image of last week, here is the picture from the Digilux, downsized to 220K: http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/Test/_1020584_cor.jpg and here is the noise cleaned picture from SilkyPix, off the RAW file, 575K: http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/Test/_1020584_dev.jpg Promise, I won't bug you again with these tests, however, for me, the power of the post processing is a discovery ---------------------------------Xavier F. BILLE Maisons-Alfort - France. _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx
