Today I downloaded the new Pentax Digital Camera Utility 4 and tried it out on my Mac.
The software interface is somewhat similar to Lightroom's panels and is so much better than the preceding Pentax Photo Browser and Photo Laboratory 3.
It is a simple software to manage and process your images. Documentation is sparse but it is easy enough to work out the controls. But what is interesting for me is how the Silkypix processing engine manages the RAW files, especially when converted to jpegs. Conversion to jpegs is simple enough but in the short time I dabbled with it, I couldn't find any control on the jpeg output. Nonetheless I kinda like the output from Silkypix. It has a nice punchy yet pleasant colour rendition akin to increasing the Vibrance slider in ACR/Lightroom/Photoshop. Used a K20D DNG file of my dog as a test:
Pentax DCU4 (Silkypix) DNG to jpeg:
Adobe ACR DNG to jpeg
The software interface is somewhat similar to Lightroom's panels and is so much better than the preceding Pentax Photo Browser and Photo Laboratory 3.
It is a simple software to manage and process your images. Documentation is sparse but it is easy enough to work out the controls. But what is interesting for me is how the Silkypix processing engine manages the RAW files, especially when converted to jpegs. Conversion to jpegs is simple enough but in the short time I dabbled with it, I couldn't find any control on the jpeg output. Nonetheless I kinda like the output from Silkypix. It has a nice punchy yet pleasant colour rendition akin to increasing the Vibrance slider in ACR/Lightroom/Photoshop. Used a K20D DNG file of my dog as a test:
Pentax DCU4 (Silkypix) DNG to jpeg:
Adobe ACR DNG to jpeg