Changes

New functionality and major improvements

• Data conversion while saving the table of measurements:
  • The table for flat field calculation can be saved
  • Normalization using the saved table for flat field calculation can be applied.
  • White balance calculation for a user-selected patch can be performed.
  • Normalization based on user-selected brightest patch and gamma compensation can be applied.

Changes

New functionality and major improvements

• Improved: Most of the time-consuming operations are now performed using parallel processing, to the effect that opening a file and computing statistics and histogram is 3 to 5 time faster if performed on a 4-core processor.
• New: Display of blown-out and underexposed areas. The values for under-   and overexposure can be adjusted through 
  Preferences -> Over/Under Exposure
  Please see the manual for the detailed description.
• New: Open Next or Previous file in the current directory.
  This can be done either through File menu or using the hotkeys: Ctrl + Arrow Right, Ctrl + Arrow Left on a Windows platform; Cmd + Arrow Right, Cmd + Arrow Left on OS X.
  The sorting order for these commands is set in
  Preferences - Misc Options - File sort order for Next/Previous.
• New: To open Raw files RawDigger now defaults to RawSpeed library, which is much faster than the standard one. The user can change this default through
  Preferences -> Data Processing -> Use RawSpeed library for file decoding.
  If using RawSpeed the following options can't be changed:
  • Data Processing -> Sony ARW2 Hack is always On,
  • Data Processing -> Linear Raw Curve is always Off.

  In order to set these options differently the user needs to switch off the option to use RawSpeed library. This is because RawSpeed library does not support all the options standard processing does.

• New: On a Windows platform the user has the control to allow and disallow running multiple instances of the program, using
  Preferences - Misc Options - Run single Program instance.
  If single instance mode is On, starting a new RawDigger process results in the following:
  1. The new process passes the file name that was used to start it (if the file name was passed to to the process as a command-line parameter) to the already existing process.
  2. New process is terminated normally.

  The user can force mode off if RawDigger is started with newinstance parameter like: RawDigger -newinstance [file name]. This will cause the new RawDigger process to start; the process started like that will not accept file names from other RawDigger processes. On an OS X platform new RawDigger instances can be started via Terminal.

Changes

• Program work has become faster:
  • Processing of parameter changes (Data Processing) has been optimized:
    • the file is reopened only if Linear Raw Curve or ARW2 Hack are changed and only if changes in these settings are significant for the current open file.
    • when Black Level settings are changed, no re-reading of RAW file takes place.
  • Multithreaded RGB rendering (for dual-core and multicore CPUs),program speed increases up to sixfold on quad-core CPU with HyperThreading switched on
  • Multithread subtraction of black level.
  • Accelerated calculation of image statistics.
• Work with Clipboard:
  • the EXIF data can be copied to Clipboard
  • the selected rows from the Samples table can be copied to Clipboard
• Bug fixes:
  • When Autoscale was set to On and the black level exceeded the maximum value in the image, the program crashed in an attempt to show the raw image.
  • When Reset Black Level on File load was set to On, indication of black level on the button in the program status bar did not change when the next file was opened.
  • The Cancel button in the file opening progress dialog did not function.
• Cosmetic changes:
  • Image size limit at which RGB rendering is switched off is set by the user. The standard values are 90Mpix for 64-bit systems and 30Mpix for 32-bit ones.
  • Histogram: vertical lines corresponding to fractional values are also drawn to the right of the rightmost integer value; the fractional lines are not drawn outside the histogram field.
  • When the black level is set automatically, the set level is indicated on the black level setting button in the bottom status line.

Changes in short (see details)

• Integrated ExifTool utility for detailed EXIF/Makernotes display.
• Improved handling of very big Raw files.
• "Sony ARW2 Hack" for more detailed Sony files inspection.
• Improved Histogram display.
• Samples and Selections are movable by mouse.
• Many minor interface changes.
• Several minor bugs eliminated.

This is initial english-language release. It is in sync with 0.9.8-RU, several bugs found in 0.9.5-0.9.7 are fixed.