I'm sure such a comparison has been posted before, but over the weekend I decided to compare the different RAW developing softwares that are installed on my computer, just to see how each fared and what would be the differences between them. I developed the same RAW image (PEF format) with these 3 softwares: Pentax Digital Camera Utility, Adobe Camera Raw and Silkypix Developer Studio.
Unfortunately I don't have Lightroom installed any longer, so I couldn't add that one to the list.
As I expected, the best image was produced by Silkypix Developer Studio. The worst by Pentax DCU, which surprised me a little because I thought a) that DCU was a Silkypix product; and b) that DCU is such a ressource hog on my aging computer that it could at least deliver a decent image. Not so apparently.
Photos below are in the following order:
1/ Pentax Digital Camera Utility 4.40
2/ Adobe Camera Raw 7.2
3/ Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 6
[edit] Since I started this thread, a friend of mine has kindly developed the RAW image with Adobe Lightroom 5.3, with the default settings as well, and the image is identical to the one produced by Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 which I posted here, so there's no point adding it, I can't see any difference at all between the two.
Last edited by vzbx; 10-01-2014 at 11:37 AM.
Reason: Adding more info