"DNG Recover Edges" and RawShooter

[jimhuber]

My Canon Rebel XT is supposed to have a 3456 x 2304 pixel sensor, and that's what I get from Adobe Camera Raw and the Adobe DNG converter (ACR 3.1 with Photoshop CS2). But Pixmantec's RawShooter premium 2006 gives me 3470 x 2310 from a .CR2 raw capture. It's not much, an extra 53,076 pixels or 0.67%, but it is extra for free.

[Orta]

Noticed it also today. Rawshooter even found more details behind the edges, when converted from DNG. When converted from RAW, they were hidden. Same way they are hidden, when converted both, DNG and RAW with Adobe CR.
I got 38/14 extra pixels with combination DNG & RSP.

[jimhuber]

I downloaded Thomas Knoll's utility from Luminous Landscape and ran some of my Rebel XT's DNG files through it (I convert all of my raw files to DNG already). It expanded them to 3474 x 2314, which is 76,212 and 0.96% more pixels than standard. It's also 23,136 and 0.3% more than RawShooter gave me. Now this is really down to splitting hairs - only 1% more pixels - but I'll take all I can get. Can we get this incorporated into Adobe's standard DNG converter?!

Only one gripe... I'd prefer not to have to click 'OK' after each file.

[jimhuber]

FYI: I ran some raw captures from my Canon PowerShot S70 through "DNG Recover Edges" today and got an expansion from 3072 x 2304 to 3112 x 2328, a gain of 166,848 pixels or 2.6%.