canoli,


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It is a fantastic converter. I use 99% of the time. It does an excellent job recovering the +1-3 ev worth of data. (even when using tweeners! LOL)


I will humbly admit though that75% of the photos from my last shootwere processed with ACR 4.6 in CS3. I used SilkyPix for the initial viewing, culling, etc. I processed the keepers but could not get my 5D outdoor flash shots to look right in print. So, I opened Bridge and went to work. The default "auto" results from ACR resulted in much better print output. Go figure. Usually for me, ACR butchers flash shots. The 40D + 50mm 1.4 @ f2.0 candid/journalist shots were fine right from SP.


It's also interesting to see ACR use brightness rather than exposure compensation to push up a dark image. I had three shots that were overexposed and it did do a -.9ev compensation automatically to bring those in line. I have to say, I was somewhat amazed at it's performance with this set of images. I usually do not like the output ACR gives.