Until now my gold standard for extracting the utmost quality from my Fuji X-Pro2 files was Iridient Developer (ID). The New ContendersĮnter ON1 Photo Raw 2017.2, MacPhun’s Luminar, and Affinity Photo’s 1.5x update and now you have many more choices. That said the film profiles are wonderful and you can still use the jpegs for aiding visualization, posting online, etc. Like the LR processed raw file above, you can see it lacks detail, the bark has a plastic look, and the branches and pine needles on the right have the characteristic worm look. This is from the JPEG processed in the camera. Look for the OOC JPEG below and you will see similar characteristics. You can see it lacks detail, the bark and boat have a plastic look, and the branches and pine needles on the right have the characteristic “worm” look. Hence my evaluation of the latest raw processing software. Although Adobe has made some speed improvements with importing images the processing quality hasn’t changed much. Not only this but compared with the best RAW processors you lose fine detail using Lightroom or ACR. In fact Fuji’s own out-of-camera JPEGs exhibit the same effect. If you read my review of the X-Pro2 you saw my examples of the “worms” and “plastic” effects using Lightroom (LR)/Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) or Silkypix which comes with Fuji cameras. However, until recently it hasn’t been easy to fully extract it. The red box is the section used for the 100 percent crops in this articleįujifilm’s innovative sensor which they call X-Trans is capable of incredible quality. It’s not the most exciting photo but because of the tonal range and fine detail it makes a good test image. I did this test prior to the release using a pre-release build they gave me to show folks in advance their improved results over their previous release.** This is the image I used to test the latest raw processors. **ON1 just released their newest version of Photo Raw (2017.0.2) February 14, 2017. Raw Processors for Fujifilm (X-Trans from X-Pro2) Compared
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