RAW conversion preference?

[marcopolo]

just received the A7R II and I guess this might be geared towards anyone with A7 series.  I noticed that I'm getting far better results with rawtherapee vs using adobe lightroom or photoshop for initial conversion in regard to high ISO.  I do have more testing I want to do against skin and high ISO, but so far, I think I can use the native ISO 102,400 if I downsize it to 24MP equivalent from 42MP as B&W.  I feel like color gets muddy, but that could be because I'm not spending too much time fine tuning to get the best results. The external link will get you to my flickr page, but if you want to see the full res jpeg, let me know.

 

ISO 51,200

ISO.51200 by Mark Lee, on Flickr

 

ISO 102,400

ISO.102400.24MP.downsized by Mark Lee, on Flickr

[SangRaal]

Try the free Capture 1 pro trial or the or the free Capture 1 sony small version. I think it's the best of the raw conversions and very fast.

[alastc]

My preference had been DXO for the A7S, where the default colour was a lot better (brighter and closer to the jpg preview).

 

However, it doesn't recognise the A7R2 yet, AND the conversion in lightroom seems much better for the A7R2. I was surprised and went back to test an A7S shot, but that hasn't changed.