#Best free raw converter for fuji pro#
#Best free raw converter for fuji software#
#Best free raw converter for fuji mac#

It's the same image - processed in several different software products. I have an image that I'll try and post soon. LR - again primarily with the Fuji files. Having done the head-to-head comparisons with the same image in both (and in multiple software products), I see a huge difference in what I can get from Capture One vs. I probably would be less picky had I not spent the time to test other platforms for raw conversions - e.g. I do get a little picky sometimes with certain images or assignments. To Ken - I am frequently unhappy with many of the conversions I get from Lightroom with the Fuji X-trans raw files. I'll probably just stay in LR - even for Fuji raw.īut if I'm doing client work, gallery quality, large prints or the result needs to have extreme detail and/or a large range of dynamic stops - I'll go to Capture One. If I'm just processing some shots for family, friends, quick 4圆 prints, posts to web, etc. Again, it's not the perfect all-in-one stop software product that LR tries to be.

#Best free raw converter for fuji pro#

But I find the best - and equally important - the quickest and easiest for X-series raw files to be Capture One Pro 7. You can get very good results with any of the above - with enough time and effort. Although LR is able to get the Nikon raw files converted extremely well. I also get better results with Capture One with most of the Nikon raw files I still process. If Adobe every gets the Fuji X-series raw conversions as good as I can get from Capture One, I'll probably never leave LR & PS. I have no dog in this fight so to speak - I'm not an affilite, nor paid or sponsored by any of those software makers. With the Fuji raw files, getting the best results in color renedetion, detail, absolute best dynamic range, abilitly to get detail out of the shadows, recover highlights, my order of preference is. I'll be happy to post or post some shots when complete. I'm working on an article showing the comparisons. I can get somewhat close to what Capture One does in LR if I spend a lot of time in LR - but it never quite gets there. I've done some more recent testing - mostly with some X100S & X-E1 files. Without question (purely my judgement and opinion) I get the absolute best results processing Fuji raw files in Capture One Pro 7. I am in the camp of Fuji followers that believes Adobe still doesn't have the Fuji X raw file conversions refined correctly. I've done a lot of X-series raw processing in LR, PS, Iridient, Photo Ninja, Capture One Pro 7, Silkypix.Īlthough I have the most experience using LR and prefer it for importing, organizing, cataloging, ease of plugin availability, ease of exporting to NIK or other software, etc. I have used much, if not most, of the software out there. I believe I'm reasonably competent at post processing.

I have owned, tested and processed raw in most of the Fuji higher end X-series - original X100, X-Pro1, X-E1, X-100S, X-T1 (for only a very short time as I found the light leak issue in my X-T1 body the very first shoot - I do a large amount of mid-day long exposures). Again, depending on your end use this might not be an issue for you. This avoids the Adobe issues of sharpening artifacts, but unfortunately you are still dealing with the sub-optimum raw demosaicing of ACR. If you have a recent version of Photoshop (CS6 or CC) you can develop your files in LR or ACR but turn off all sharpening, noise reduction, and grain effect then use high pass sharpening in Photoshop, or better still a third party set of products like Nik Sharpener 3 and DfIne NR software. The next step, if you want to go that far, involves using a third-party raw developer with all its available features, and then perhaps using LR just for DAM (digital asset management) purposes or possibly abandoning LR entirely and using another software for that purpose. This is probably the way to go if you want to make prints over about A3 ( or 13x19 inch) size. This way you can develop your raf files easily then return them to LR for additional tweaking, including sharpening and noise reduction steps.

#Best free raw converter for fuji mac#

If you want to experiment more with raw converters, the first step is to use one that (a) works on your Platform - Aperture, Iridient and AccuRaw for example are Mac only, and (b ) allows you to create a develop preset and batch process files. The issues with Adobe (ACR and LR) are two fold (a) the raw demosaicing causes some 'smearing' of fine details, and (b ) the sharpening algorithms in ACR/LR make things worse, creating halos and false colors in some cases. Thomas Fitzgerald (Google his name with Lightroom+ Fuji+ Sharpening) has some presets you might find useful. My advice is to stay with LR5.3 especially if you output mostly for web or screen.