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Canon 6D RAWs processed awfully bad?!

Hi,

I previously owned a Canon 400D and loved Aperture for the entire workflow, it was just a breeze. Now got a new Canon 6D and also took some test photos with the 5D mk3, and every Raw that I import just looks awfully dark and contrasty.

That is, for a moment they look nice, and then, when they're fully loaded, they turn dark and contrasty.

I thought something would be wrong with the cameras, but opened up some of the pictures in lightroom or in Photoshop, using the adobe raw processor, and there, everything looks nice.

I never knew that the aperture raw processing was so bad, not just with colors, but also with noise reduction for example. Am I doing anything wrong, maybe with some secret color space setting or so (cam is set to sRGB), or are the raw profiles in aperture for these new cameras just not implemented properly yet?

Example Images:

Aperture:

http://chfilm.de/download/foto/IMG_0324A.jpg

Adobe Raw Conversion (nothing done, except hit auto adjust and increased the luma denoise a bit)

http://chfilm.de/download/foto/IMG_0324LR.jpg

what is going on?? I seriously what have never expected such an enormous impact on image quality by the software, especially since I thought Aperture was a Pro-tool. Look at the sharpness of the images!!

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Posted on Jan 26, 2013 10:30 PM

26 replies

Mar 19, 2014 5:35 PM in response to William Lloyd

HTP is indeed off. I only cranked the shadows up to 60 for the screen shot--otherwise it's hard to see the problem in a screen shot. The half-tone effect, noise and loss of detail is all visible on screen without any bump up in the shadows. My goal here wasn't to get full detail in the shadows, otherwise I would have gone HDR. But the fact is that full detail is actually there and both Lightroon and Canon's DPP software readily show it. Aperture doesn't.

Mar 19, 2014 5:45 PM in response to blues4orce

Okay, here is the same image, this time at 200% and with no adjustments whatsoever. You'll need to open this full screen in order to see into the deeper areas.

Mar 19, 2014 7:14 PM in response to blues4orce

Yep, I can see it.

I'd suggest you submit feedback as was pointed out to some others in the thread:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html

Images that can demonstrate problems can always serve as good test cases to the Aperture engineers.

Mar 20, 2014 6:37 AM in response to William Lloyd

I've already submitted feedback, and have offered to provide example files.

Unfortunately I don't hold much hope that Apple will do something about this anytime soon. I can't just keep indefinitely investing time into organizing and editing in Aperture hoping that this will be fixed. Apple appears to have been ignoring Apterture for too long.

chfilm1 Author

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Mar 20, 2014 6:40 AM in response to blues4orce

Sadly I had to jump ship and abandom aperture because of this in favor of lightroom. It ***** because of the missing Photostream implementation in LR.

Otherwise it just does a better job in the overall image processing, also with my new sony RX-1! Just *****.

MarkPek

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215 points

Mar 23, 2014 12:42 PM in response to chfilm1

Interesting to see others' views. I have a 6D too; I've also been an Aperture fan for many years, but am currently making the switch to Lightroom for all the reasons described here. I miss Aperture's organizational features, and its easy integration with all things Apple, but it was just not doing justice to my photos. I'm currently duplicating everything -- an Apple library and a Lightroom catalog -- hoping that Aperture will step up in version 4, but I can't do this forever.

bfolkens

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May 25, 2014 4:42 PM in response to anonymous_support

I'm experiencing the same problem. There seems to be a slight desaturation and vignetting, and maybe even a change in gamma. Has anyone been able to get in touch with Apple about this?

DPP processed raw on left, Aperture on the right.

chfilm1 Author

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May 25, 2014 4:50 PM in response to bfolkens

I sent feedback to them, but that was over a year ago...

Jan 18, 2016 7:31 AM in response to chfilm1

I have this problem also with RAW & Canon6D. in fact I changed from Fuji to Canon because Fuji RAW was no longer supported by Aperture.

The pictures are very dark - several stops in fact.

BUT - I now import into the Canon software utility with updated software for the lens type & them import them into Aperture.

Haven't downloaded El Capitan yet - as I hear my Gmail & FileMakerPro will also have problems. Ray

Jan 18, 2016 9:55 AM in response to Ray on IoW UK

Do you have highlight tone priority on? That confuses Aperture.

Jan 18, 2016 12:45 PM in response to Keith Barkley

No - sorry Keith - not gotten that far with the Canon yet - just have Highlight alert - Ray

Canon 6D RAWs processed awfully bad?!