The editor of PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine, Peter 14 years of experience as both a journalist and professional photographer. He is a hands-on photographer with a passion and expertise for sharing his practical shooting skills. Equally adept at turning his hand to portraits, landscape, sports and wildlife, he has a fantastic knowledge of camera technique and principles. As you'd expect of the editor of a Canon publication, Peter is a devout Canon user and can often be found reeling off shots with his EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR.
Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is a photo management and conversion utility for dealing with images from many models of Canon digital SLR cameras in CR2 raw format.Though the application was obviously created for dealing with those who do raw shooting, the program can also edit and manage photos that were just shot in plain JPEG or TIFF. You can toggle which images are being viewed in the Edit menu by toggling "Select RAW images only".Edit and optimize Canon CR2 raw imagesThe application has a few editing functions for images for adjustment and perfecting raw images such as brightness and contrast, tone curve, color, white balance and auto lighting optimizer.The cropping and perspective tools are a good way to straighten out images, remove areas of a photograph or just to slightly change how the image is perceived. Zooming in and out of the opened image is a great way to improve detail and sharpness by having a finer look at the pixels in the image.When applying edits, you've got the original image open in its own panel to compare changes when you select the "Before/after layout" in the Preview menu. The capabilities of editing are quite comprehensive, opening up a long list of ways to develop and optimize images.A good way to measure how well an image looks is not just to view the images side-by-side but also to use the application's Histogram to compare RGB values.HDR functionality in Digital Photo Professional is maintained, allowing you to combine 3 or more images to create a high dynamic range pictures that improves clarity, saturation and contrast on images that are stacked together.Fix imperfections with lens correctionsRAW images can often be large and contain a lot of data and due to different formats by all of the different camera makers, makes it a real task to get the files that you want. Programs which specialize in processing RAW images like Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom can be expensive but Digital Photo Professional supports most Canon camera models and can provide you with excellent lens corrections.DPP also tackles chromatic aberration and fixes vignetting depending on the lens used and the data stored in the EXIF data inside of the RAW images produced by your Canon EOS camera.ConclusionIn order for DPP to properly function, either File Viewer Utility, RAW Image Task or EOS Viewer Utility are required to already be installed.All in all, Digital Photo Professional is a very useful utility specialized for Canon's image formats that functions as a proprietary image editing and correction suite that works as a good alternative to Adobe DNG Converter or Adobe Lightroom that can apply basic and somewhat more advanced corrections to digital camera images.Features of Digital Photo Professional
Ask any professional or serious amateur photographer to list their most important lenses and a wide-aperture, ultra-wide-angle zoom lens will likely be high on their list.The Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM Lens arguably meets that need better than any lens before it.Of the trio of f/2.8 zoom lenses oft referred to as the trinity of essential lenses for most pro and serious amateur kits, the RF 15-35 was the first to hit the streets with the Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM Standard Zoom Lensarriving a short time later and the Canon RF 70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens promised to arrive later in the same year.
Many thanks for your detailed reply quailoaksphoto, ...though I live in the UK I guess there is a similar service here.
Perhaps I wasn't clear that I am a potential purchaser of the GH4 - ordering in the next week or so. I'm currently using Pentax (K5 + many lenses) so buying the GH4 would also be an outlay in lenses. I just want to make sure that using the GH4 primarily for professional paid video-work I wouldn't be entering into a system that has a fundamental audio problem. In some circles this 'motorcycle buzz' is unspoken of, in others it's a hot topic.
As the GH4 circuitry has introduced this problem (GH3 external-mic/headphone audio was clean) I'm trying to ascertain whether Panasonic has addressed this on new batches of the camera?
In fact as DPReview often takes note of abnormalities in other cameras (white orbs, banding, and such-like) I was wondering if they might clarify this audio issue with the GH4.
There is the possibility Panasonic have resolved this issue with the latest batches of GH4's, can DPReview please get to the bottom of this, I'm sure many low-budget professional film-maker / photographers, such as I, would appreciate their detailed testing of this issue.