The same situation holds ( almost) for Sigma/Foveon sensors, and Sigma Photo Professional is a major drawback that always costs me a great deal of extra (wasted) time when reviewing Sigma cameras.

For starters, I do not want to establish an entirely new workflow apart from from Photoshop/ACR, not for one camera. It may prove acceptable or unacceptable-I have my own workflow and other requirements, but mine ain’t yours.

My recommendation to Pentax K1 or K3 II users working with SuperRes pixel shift mode is to try Pentax Digital Camera Utility. Pentax Digital Camera Utility 5.5.0 ships with the Pentax K1 on CD Which after all is one of the main points of SuperRes mode (fine details). I worked with it for some Fujifilm X-Pro2 files and had exactly the same impressions-overall very good image quality, but lacking in fine detail rendition (probably sharpening algorithms). However, Pentax DCU (SilkyPix) does an excellent job emphasizing coarse and medium structures (though not fine details), and color rendition is very nice too. Pentax DCU is a variant of SilkyPix, which if it does not get the gold medal for worst raw conversion software interface ever, comes in a close second, just behind Sigma Photo Professional. Pentax ships Digital Camera Utility version 5.5.0 on CD with the K1. Some readers have suggest using Pentax Digital Camera Utility for Pentax K1 SuperRes pixel shift mode with Motion Correction see my previous analysis of Motion Correction with Adobe Camera Raw and Pentax Digital Camera Utility raw converters.

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