DxO PureRAW

DxO releases 1,192 new Optics Modules including Canon EOS R8, R50

Apr 14, 2023 by John Aldred 1 Comment

DxO has announced another big addition to its collection of Optics Modules. These are used in DxO’s raw processing software, including DxO PhotoLab, PureRaw, FilmPack and Viewpoint, to correct for lens distortion, chromatic aberration and other issues. This new update brings support for a number of new camera and lens combos, including the recently released Canon EOS R8 (buy here) and Canon EOS R50 (buy here) mirrorless cameras.

The total number of camera and lens combinations now contained within DxO’s Optics Modules database is over 82,000. This data has been collected over the last 20 years to bring the best possible optics correction available to their software. As well as correcting for distortion, they also fix chromatic aberration, and vignetting as well as sharpness correction for soft lenses.

DxO releases 1,693 new Optics Modules adding corrections for the EOS R6 Mark II, A7R V, X-T5 and Sigma lenses

Jan 12, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment

DxO has announced a big addition to its Optics Modules for its raw processing software, including DxO PhotoLab, PureRAW, FilmPack and Viewpoint. This new update brings the total number of camera and lens combinations DxO software supports, collected over the past 20 years, up to over 80,000 different setups.

The latest update adds automatic correction support for images shot with the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Sony A7R V, Fujifilm X-T5 and the OM System OM-5 with a whole array of existing lenses in the database, along with the addition of several Sigma and Tokina lenses for a wide range of mirrorless cameras.

DxO PureRAW 2 is now 4x faster on Apple Silicon and adds Fuji X-Trans file support

Mar 17, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment

DxO has announced DxO PureRaw 2 which brings with it some pretty big performance increases, with a 50% speed boost on Windows and runs up to four times faster on Apple Silicon-based Macs. The new release also adds support for Fujifilm’s X-Trans files, promising “demosaicing and denoising like you’ve never seen before” that “corrects every possible lens defect”.

Like the previous version, PureRAW 2 uses convolutional neural networks to perform the demosaicing and denoising process. But over its predecessor, it sees a couple of new ways of working. You can pre-process your images from directly within Lightroom, to generate already-enhanced Linear DNG files for editing, or you can do it straight from the Windows Explorer or macOS Finder interface.

DxO PureRAW cleans up noise and softness in your photos before you load them into Lightroom

Apr 14, 2021 by John Aldred 1 Comment

DxO has announced DxO PureRAW, their new software to… Well, I suppose “pre-process” is the best term to describe it. It pre-processes your raw files before you load them into Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw, Capture One or whatever raw software you happen to use. Its goal is to help improve your starting point with increased sharpness and reduced noise.

DxO PureRAW is not a plugin. It’s a standalone application through which you run your raw files before your usual editing workflow. It claims to remove noise, chromatic aberration, vignetting, distortion and to improve sharpness and clarity using DxO’s DeepPRIME AI tech after which it exports out a set of new DNG raw files for editing.