I completely agree with Nawlins that it's really difficult to do these comparisons at default settings. If you use the Enhance option (without Super Resolution) in ACR or LR, you'll see that it does a fantastic job of reducing aliasing and moire artifacts, and Adobe's Enhance tool manages to significantly reduce artifacts without imposing other tradeoffs like blur and local desaturation or color smearing, which is what tends to happen with other tools. Do you have such experience? Or any useful advice? I may not have enough experience to remove the artifacts I see in the output files.

What's the best raw converter for one person's needs, preferences, and skills may differ substantially from what's the best raw converter for another person. That said, different raw converters have different strengths and weaknesses those shift over time, especially relative to each other and their relevance to different photographers' photos varies. In many cases, you'll get the best results from the raw converter with which you're most familiar. And to do that, you have to have a certain amount of expertise with that particular raw converter. IMO to get meaningful test results from any raw converter, you can't simply leave the control settings at their defaults instead, you have to adjust each for best effect. In the 2nd example the PhotoLab Prime is the best, Capture One is the second.Īnd in the 3rd example the best in removing the color moire is PhotoLab DeepPrime, JPEG from camera and Capture One.

Interestingly, in the 1st sample the camera JPEG looks the best and PhotoLab DeepPrime looks the worst.

Dxo pure raw and photolab