Originally posted by Rondec Is dcrawps really fast? Because DCU isn't hard to use, it is just kind of slow. Probably takes about a minute to process each file. I have a standard preset that I have saved that I apply to those files, but the actually generation/saving of the TIFF file seems to take some time.
I don't shoot a bunch of pixel shift images, so I am usually dealing with 2 or 3 at a time. Standard DNG files I process in Lightroom straight off without generating a 16 bit TIFF image.
I can't compare the actual processing time of DCU and dcrawps, as I briefly tried DCU and thought it was pretty awful.
It does seem an embuggerance to start up a gui, load each image, convert, etc, when the end result is going to be post processed somewhere else.
The time to write that command line is pretty short, and you could have it as a script that you simply bung into the directory with your PS DNGs.
In the end it's each to his own. Most people seem out of their depth with command line.
If you don't usually use the command line it is different, and probably uncomfortable, so use what suits. My comments above were meant to alert people to the other ways of doing things.
Cheers,
Terry