Originally Posted by Chuck Lee
My only experience in rendering raw data is with DPP and Adobe Lightroom.
According to the Canon descriptions, Faithful is the only rendering option that is accurate. Neutral is compressed in color space to minimize clipping and expects generous post-processing. Everything else is a stock enhancement preset. I played with lightroom for awhile, but while I subjectively liked a few renderings better in their effect, I couldn't get images that looked much like the 'Faithful' initial settings on DPP.
Something, though, bothers me. While I'm all for tweaking images for the best representation of what we want to present, if different software takes the same data and, by default, presents a drastically different image in the same color space, then, technically speaking, I would think that means that they can't all be right, i.e., most, if not all of them, are wrong.
I think I'll put these more advanced raw rending methods on my long term wish list, along with Photoshop and more sophisticated noise reduction software. Need more time for this.... [:P]