If you're new to digital photography you may wish to read the Digital Photography Glossary before diving into this review (it may help you understand some of the terms used). This article is written by Vincent Bockaert, On the next pages we will have a look at the actual performance of DxO Optics Pro. You would still need such software for contrast/level adjustments, color adjustments, cropping, resampling, adjusting perspective, cloning etc. Given the given the limited number of adjustments, DxO is not a replacement for software like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. We were surprised to see such a big price difference between different lens-DSLR combinations. So for the D70 kit used in this review, you will spend US$127, while a Canon EOS 1D Mark II with a 16-35mm lens will set you back for US$267, more than double the price for essentially the same functionality. Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 12-24mm F/4 G IF-ED: US$99 A per lens cost for the 'DxO Lens Correction Module' (examples below).A per camera cost for the 'DxO Camera Body Correction' (examples below).A one time cost of US$49 for the DxO Correction Engine.This may of course change some of our review conclusions. DO Labs told us that a version of DxO Optics Pro which supports RAW should be available soon. So opening a RAW file with another software and saving it as a JPEG is unfortunately not a workaround option. Also note that DxO Optics Pro will only accept JPEGs as they come out of the camera. Although many such photographers will shoot a combination of RAW and JPEG, DxO currently only supports JPEG. On a 2.6GHz Pentium 4 machine with 756MB RAM and no other applications running, it took about 1 minute to process eight six megapixel JPEG images with all 4 adjustments and output them as 100% quality JPEG images (there is also a TIFF output option which we used for the comparisons in this review).įrom the "Pro" designation it would appear that DxO Optics Pro targets the prosumer and professional digital photographer. In the event it is unable to handle a certain camera-lens combination, DxO does not interrupt the batch process, but communicates this via a dialog box at the end of the process. It will automatically identify the camera and lens. adjustment sliders) to adjust the results if these do not turn out as desired.ĭxO allows for easy automation and can batch process files. However, given the price tag (see below), one would expect at least some optional user intervention (e.g. The user interface is very friendly and the user has to make virtually no decisions. Making the image adjustments can hardly be any easier.
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