ryzan76: RAWTherapee is freeware.

http://www.rawtherapee.com/

AlphaBeta: Yes, different RAW programs produce wildly varying quality. It is well known that Adobe doesn't do the best job of Alpha files, giving us a noisier output or wrong colors (unless you know how to work it.)

RAWTherapee so far works well for Alphas.

You can see a shootout of various RAW programs trying to simulate DRO+:

http://www.mhohner.de/sony-minolta/dro_vs_acr.php

If got budget, the 75300 will be useful normally. However, if not sure, get single lens kit and when ready, can always find a 2nd hand 75300, 18250, 18200 or minolta's 70-210 from the market.

haha..ok2 bro..BTW (L3()nZ, better go for single kitlens, and find the SAL55200..got many ppl sell it..

hey guys..]just got back from langkawi, got loadz pic..will post them later for c&c..rite now..want to got to sleep...later

hello..
newbie reporting in.
jz only owned Sony Alpha 350 dis evenin~
hope can sharing idea with u guyz..~
^^

welkem to the club...

a few not-so-macro macro noob shots...lol..took it in the evening jsut now...

suppose to focus on the spidy eyes..but well.. =(









@albnok

serious??adobe doesnt work well with alphas RAW??holy cow i've been using adobe for the pass 4months~! lol...hmm..but does it mean that my photos shd b actually better than how they look like now?? hehe...

This post has been edited by achew: Mar 15 2009, 11:45 PM

adobe sux when handling sony alpha RAW. tried it with both photoshop and lightroom 2. they'll degrade the color of your picture. what i did is to convert the raw into .tiff using the sony raw viewer and edit them using photoshop.

sounds troublesome =( but does my photo look like having some problem?if nt i probably continue using adobe ba...haha..currently im using iphoto to manage my raws..and by just hitting Enter..the raw automatically transferred to Adobe Camera Raw..and after i finish adjusting all the parameters...it would send the adjusted raw to my cs4 and i could continue if i need further edit/manipulation there.....this work flow looks ok to me..smooth n simple...

achew, I can't find the link, but it was on http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ and discussed on http://www.dyxum.com/. Fortunately you shot RAW so you have another chance at processing it! Though your pictures look fine as they are already don't worry.

thanks boss...well..guess i'll stick with wad i hav for the moment..until i can get a better replacement =D
i did check out the rawtherapee webbie u mentioned..but unfortunately they don offer mac version..so well..adobe for now

good morning fren...
today is school holiday....then im holiday.....

me too.. hehehe

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Added on March 16, 2009, 7:23 am

Another pic post...reflection.. CnC la bro... Pandai sudah aku upload....

This post has been edited by readone_sapi: Mar 16 2009, 07:23 AM

no wonder the traffic was so smooth this morning!

me also holiday too lah...planning to go shooting scenery after this.

na kalau pandai kasi banyak banyak upload...
cantik masjid tu mcm atas bawah

DCIM Show 2009 later at MidValley 15 models semi-finalist is out

>> http://www.dcimshow.com/

nice~
everything about mosque is nice
i love this picture
calmness

This post has been edited by dark lenanza: Mar 16 2009, 08:14 AM

yes...so calm.....
but if he can crop the grass in front of the pic...lagi calm calm calmmmmmmmmm

yups...
it didnt noticeable i think