I can honestly say that I never found the features of Lightroom to be worthwhile (but I know I'm in the minority there).

DPP does everything I need a RAW converter to do. It's made by Canon, so it's perfectly suited to process Canon RAW files. Batch processing is a breeze, the rating system is quite useful, and it's free.

If a pic needs more work, there's Photoshop. For everything else, DPP not only works, but works well for me.

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