Are you Fujifilm X-Trans camera owners who use Lightroom Classic noticing any improvements in your raw conversions and sharpening? In other words, better but still not as good as it could be?
I’m not sure, but since the last major Lightroom Classic update there seems to be somewhat of an improvement in what I am seeing in my Fujifilm X-Trans sensor files. I’m not sure, other than seemingly fewer artifacts during sharpening, that I can explain what I think I’m seeing.
Another explanation could be Fujifilm’s 40mp sensor and new image processor handles Lightroom conversions a tad better.
Lightroom still doesn’t do the best job in demosaicing the Fujifilm files but I get the sense that someone deep within Adobe’s workforce may be tasked with continuing with the improvement process. Could that really be happening?
Maybe I’m just imagining this and am suffering from confirmation bias. Let me know your thoughts, if you will.
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I use Pure Raw 3 seamlessly with LR with excellent results for all my Fuji RAW files. Give it a try. You won’t be disappointed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. I have DXO PhotoLab which includes the PureRaw algorithms, and use it for specific files but for run-of-the-mill images, I’ll just edit them in Lightroom.
DeletePure Raw 3 is a little different animal than Photolab. It is a plugin and works seamlessly with LR. It is the best converter of RAF files I’ve found. It converts your file to a DNG and sends it back to LR. It is sharp and thanks to AI any noise is completely gone.
DeleteSharpening has definitely improved. It's not perfect, but it's much better than it was two or three years ago. But what is still disastrous is the environment speed, nothing has changed about that - importing and working with 60MPx Bayer RAWs is much faster than with 26MPx X-Trans, not to mention 40MPx. Years ago I replaced the HDD with an SSD primarily for Lightroom, upgraded the processor several times (I now have a Ryzen 7 5700X) and the speedup was negligible.
ReplyDeleteThe demosaicing with Pure Raw3 is way better than Lightroom, resulting in superior fine details. The noise reduction, particularly at high a ISO is also a very welcome benefit. Pure Raw 3 integrates very well into a Lightroom workflow
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