[Rainer]

You might give "Rawtherapee" a try.

 

I personally do not use it often (as I find its GUI rather confusing),

nevertheless, it produces really nice output. Compared with my

"normal" workflow it takes me two to three times the usual time

per image, so I only use it when other things fail. Especially, the

highlight-recovery is quite good.

 

But be warned ... on a 32-bit machine, you should only process one

image at a time ... do not batchprocess, as this will crash the program

soon. There is a hint for some config-tweaks for 32-bit WIndows machines

that are equipped with 4GB ram ... you should follow them.

The programm runs way better on a 64-bit system with more than

4GB ram.

 

If you want to give it a try: http://rawtherapee.com/downloads

 

Regards .. Rainer