great program - but installation Chaos

I had once bought DxO 8, as it was to have a Christmas offer of 99. Previously, I had tested the demo version to LR and the operation had me better fallen in DxO. That has basically not changed even after the upgrade to the 9 version.

The concept of DxO provides that the combination of camera and lens in the manufacturer's laboratory "presumptuous" and it profiles were created. When you open a RAW image, this combination is detected based on the EXIF ​​data and image field curvatures, Vignetierungen be automatically eliminated. In addition, DxO adjusts the exposure, so you need only rarely act on its own and save the highlights eg etc. Especially with cheap Kitlinsen the edge regions also be sharpened and the quality increases impressively.

The crux of the matter: if like me you name cameras Pentax has a niche brand, missing many lenses - for example, the Sigma 17-70mm / F2.8 ~ 4.0 (the older version), although for each Canon dSLR and a lot of Nikon available , but not for Pentax. And custom profiles can not create one. Inform So before buying on the manufacturing side, if the existing lenses are supported!

Unlike LR there are no catalogs, so no need to improvise first animals images, you open and edit them easily. DxO puts his information in * .dop files from and specifically where the image files are located. That may not be the last word, but I prefer the LR method.

An essential highlight the 9 version is the PRIME-Out suppression for me. I'm glad that I had photographed the same 5 years ago with the former Pentax K10D in RAW and JPEG. Now in some shots with ISO800 I could subsequently get a better result. The rest is in my eyes cosmetics: to click instead of the mouse into the picture, one must now CTRL + D to get the before / after comparison. The Develop tab of the 8 version I liked better, there you could see at a glance which images had been exported.

The 9s version runs more slowly felt (without PRIME) as the 8 version.

The images I export as a 16bit TIFF, with the DNG export I had with the 8 version problems.

After installing the 9 version, the application lies not start. From support only a lot of questions and no solution. Finally, they wanted from me that I install a remote control software. No, not so - all came from someone who had nuir presented by his first name! I then searched himself, apparently the program comes with the libraries mess, a simple editing an XML file, ready.

With the 9.1.2 back problems: the opened image is displayed as a colorful collage, but processed correctly. Now I want to import a patch and update the graphics driver - may well be right, that is the graphics driver bit older (never touch a runnign system!) - But why it was in the 9.0er no problem?