| D-range works by deliberately shooting underexposed and then pushing the shadow levels brighter in during the image processing - either in camera when shooting JPEG or in PPL when shooting RAW. Third party RAW converters won't necessarily know they need to brighten the shadows. I have heard that when shooting DNG, that info might be encoded somehow, but it does not seem to be for PEF, at least not in a way that is "automatic", as I have verified that when using D-range, the camera-generated preview looks *entirely* different from the output of the RAW processing program I use (ACDSee Pro). Whereas it normally looks only "slightly" different. |