controversial question (could be my fault).

I have available on my MacBook Pro (Intel) running Leopard the  
following 3 image apps:

1) Cinepaint as the latest OSX build from Eric Robinson, I believe  
this is v0.22.

2) The Gimp version (?) I grabbed it last week and hope it's the  
latest.  Hard to tell under X what v. it is.

3) Adobe Lightroom v. 1.3.1., 30-day trial.


I shot several NEF (RAW Nikon) frames today at work in low light  
levels, with the same exposure settings for each.  Without tweaking  
any settings in the programs above, my observations are:

Cinepaint:  a lot of detail, but a lot of grain(noise).  noise  
remained when I dropped the blacks to try to hide grain-noise.

The Gimp:  very little grain, but severely lacking in detail; almost  
looked out-of-focus when compared to the Cinepaint image.

Adobe Lightroom:  very little grain, and very good sharpness.

in other words, Adobe Lightroom, in absence of any pre-processing  
tweaks with the other programs, won handily.


Is there something I'm doing wrong with Cinepaint ?  I would be most  
happy to find out that this is so.   I can provide the images to  
anyone who is interested, as file saves from the 3 apps.

--
Rob Lingelbach
[email protected]  http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html




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