Standard RAW Development

[Nadeem Ayoob]

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?

[Nik Bhatt]

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.

[Ben Dune]

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

[Nik Bhatt]

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.

[Ben Dune]

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.

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