It looks good enough to be worth trying to print a bit larger than that?

I am pleased you have posted the series, as I often wonder if this rather strange process is what is meant to happen to an image or whether I was doing something wrong and creating unecessary work.

The only comment is whether you are converting slightly early in the process? The result says 'no' and it is what I now do for older 350D .CR2 images*. However it does mean that the last phase does not have access to the full range of stuff in the RAW file doesn't it?

Not sure what you use for conversion, but Duncan sent over some Capture 1 screens (and I looked at one or two macThings) and they seemed to have a lot of fine tuning gadgets if one can get round the technology behind it. Fortunately no longer a problem now I have gone Nikon and use NX2 where there is no need to convert at all except for web jpgs.

*some grovelling apologies due in this area, I think you did try to point out how limited DPP was before I came to the same conclusion empirically