In the settings menu I see the toggle for ‘standard raw development.’ Could you please summarize what disabling to get a flat file does (I don’t see anything in the manual about this)? Could I achieve the same results by leaving the toggle on and moving the boost, moire, raw sharpening, and raw contrast sliders all the way to 0?
Standard Raw Development turns off as many of the Apple decoding parameters as I can. You can do it yourself by moving the sliders and also turning off Lens Correction (and I think) gamut mapping.
Resurrecting this old thread as I had the same question. Thanks for the answer.
Could you explain that in a bit more detail? I don’t really understand what that means? Eg with it on is Nitro just applying some default slider values per apple’s parameters (eg rather than starting at 0 the sliders start at [some number]? Or is something under the hood also different? Thanks
Standard RAW development = use the default settings of Apple’s decoder, which applies various enhancements to the RAW. Turning it off = turn off as many of these enhancements as possible. It does that by moving sliders to zero or whatever is the least enhanced value.
Interesting thanks. I saw this in action on a quit under-exposed raw file. The Apple decoder raised the exposure by about 2.8 stops, which I thought was a bit too much creative license for an algorithm to take.