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    DxO PureRAW

    May 25, 2021 7 minutes

    At a glance

    £115

    £80 to end of May 2021

    • Raw file ‘pre-converter’

    • For Windows and Mac

    • Outputs 16-bit linear DNGs

    • 30-day free trial available

    French software company DxO has a long and distinguished history in digital imaging. It was the first to fully understand and implement the concept of profiled lens aberration corrections with its original Optics Pro software, which it introduced way back in 2004. Since then, the firm has built up a vast database of lens/camera profiles, while the software itself has morphed into a fully-fledged raw converter, DxO PhotoLab. Along the way, DxO has also developed some class-leading demosaicing and noise reduction technologies. In particular, its latest AI-based DeepPRIME denoising, introduced in PhotoLab 4, can lay a real claim to being one of the best currently available.

    However, the firm has also recognised a fundamental reality of the imaging software market. Most people tend to learn a program and stick with it, with Adobe being the 800-pound gorilla in this particular space. No matter how much photographers may grumble about its subscription-only model, the fact remains that a

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