DxO is shortsighted wrt phone camera support

[pierre5018 (PIERRE LABRECHE)]

RAW files from Samsung phones are excellent. The worst is that some of the cameras unsupported by Photolab can be processed by Photolab … if you trick the file EXIF into a supported model. See

While waiting for a smartphone/dng solution from DXO PL

I found that if the samsung exif camera and model data are modified the raw file becomes readable by Photolab. Changing the exif parameters create “spoofed” versions of dng files,replacing camera make and model. The created dng files can be developed using Photolab 4. Both methods override the camera make and model to “Apple” and “Apple iPhone 8 Plus” . Method 1 : Use a command line tool. exiftool -m -Make=“Apple” -Model=“iPhone 8 Plus” -o %d%f_spoof.%e FILE … Method 2 : Use Exif Pilot to …