In brief, if you looking for a fast, clean raw file converter for Mac and won't miss the "one program for everything" approach (like in Lightroom and Aperture) give RAW Developer a serious look. To my eye it is not that effective with high noise photos. RD does play well with other programs, for example you can open a selection of photos directly in Expression Media, the Finder, or Path Finder in RD. What this program is not: It is not Expression Media, Aperture or Lightroom, it will not help organize your photos at all. B&W development - absolutely the best black and white rendering that I have seen in any raw converter. Copy and Pasting Settings - move all or groups of settings between photos. Controlling exposure sectors with sliders - very intuitive.
Only RAW developer I've seen that will allow multiple format output in the same batch session. Batch mode - very flexible with excellent scale up features, fast. Stand out features: Speed - this is the fastest raw converter on Mac I've tried. Any photo that I can't tweak to my liking in RD can be done in LightZone (another wonderful program). There are some features that would be helpful like shadow recovery, flash fill, and a local contrast tool like Vibrancy, but the flexibility and control that RD provides makes up for these absences. Having tried CaptureOne, ACR, Bibble, Aperture, Lightroom and a several other raw converters, RD had the best mix of speed, quality of output, and easy of use for my needs. I've used RAW Developer (RD) as my main raw file processor for about the last 2 years. All adjustments apply to the entire image. The reason I'm only giving Irident Developer 4 stars instead of 5 is that it doesn't offer any localized adjustments. And it looks like for some lenses I would be able to apply a lens profile with the built-in chromatic aberration correction but without the built-in distortion correction, but so far none of my lenses offer me this option (the check box for CA is grayed out). I can still process images from my Olympus and Panasonic cameras without applying the lens correction information that's included in the raw file (and that other apps like Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom apply automatically). For me, the big selling feature is the addition of controls to correct chromatic aberration (which the previous version was missing), as I have a couple of images with bad CA that I could not satisfactorily convert with the previous version.
IRIDIENT DEVELOPER WORKFLOW UPGRADE
The upgrade price is now a more reasonable $45 (and the full price of the app is now a more reasonable $75). ID is focused and fast, I hope it stays that way. The half assed capabilities in some other tools only slow down my workflow. ID doesn't try and do DAM (asset management) and I would score that as a positive. With LR, arguably you could try and get by just with the raw converter). Photoshop, to finalize processing all of your images to your satisfaction. Missing local adjustments (= if you're using ID, you still need an image editor, e.g.
Missing convenience features from LR (e.g. What it doesn't do (yet): Missing the powerful color wheels of C1 (to be fair, no other app does those). monochrome conversion - one of the few apps (besides AccuRaw Monochrome) that applies a different de-bayering algorithm specifically for monochrome (again with 2 choices of preference, including smooth tonality) sharpening - this has multiple state of the art sharpening algorithms at your disposal that rival or exceed other leading raw converters (C1, DXO, LR. Absolutely 5 Stars app - ID does some unique things that help image quality that you will not find elsewhere.
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