Articles

• This article compares lossy DNGs with losslessy compressed DNGs.
• This SWAY has some tips and tricks using Adobe Lightroom with Lumia 950/930.
• Then I wrote a guide shooting Nokia Lumia 92x using Lightroom.
• Auf Deutsch gibt es auch ein paar Tipps wie man gute (Hochzeits-)Fotografen erkennt.

DNG Thumbnail Handler in Windows Explorer for Windows 7/8/10 x64

Allows you to see thumbnail and preview viewer e.g. in Windows Explorer. It is much much fast than Adobes own codec and 100% managed C# code, so very stable (espc. important when adding to Explorer).
Click here for details and download

Turbo DNG Importer

It's takes the basic Adobes DNG Converter as basis and adds things like:

• Directly copy from Windows Phone device
• Tablet plus PC merge mode: use your tablet on the go to edit small files, copy all settings over afterwards while converting the same files for your home PC.
• Optional Lossy Compression - Massively reducing size on standard images (see here for more details)
• Speed - Starts several download threads at once, making it faster
• Filtering - Download only images e.g. of the last few day from your card
• Tagging - Add your author information and e.g. a headline
• Geolocation - Enter an address, it tags the image and downloads coordinates from BING maps.

Click here for details and download

DCP Color Profiles for Lightroom

• This Google Pixel 2 DCP profile (should also work for Google Pixel 3 DNGs) is more color neutral than the DCP profile embedded in the Pixels DNG. Especially watch out for the dark blue tones and violets. In contrast to the built in one it is also single light source without a second tungsten profile that gets mixed in when reducing the temperature in Lightroom. Try around 4900K and tint +15 as a white balance starting point in Lightroom.
  Click here to download

• Nokia Lumia 930/950 Adobe Lightroom DCP color profiles. The Lumia 930/950 can generate real DNG raw files, allowing for advanced color profiles. These profiles should improve general color rendering and also add a halogen (tungsten) profile. See this Sway for tips and tricks using Adobe Lightroom with Lumia 950/930.
  Click here to download

ColorChartCheck Tool

ColorChartCheck is a little command line utility to compare a developed PNG photo file of a 24 patch color checker against reference value from Bable and X-Rite.
Click here to download V2.1 (you need 7-Zip to unpack the file and Microsoft .Net 4.0 or higher runtime).

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