![]() ![]() ![]() Anyway, on with the settings… No Sharpen, Low Noise reduction. That’s the approach that I’ve been taking as I try to figure this out. I hate the “digital” look which comes about from over sharpening or excessive filtering, which is why I always strive for the most natural looking image. My personal preference is always for the most natural looking, and most film like files. In my previous post, I thought that I had found the best combination, which was to apply a low level of sharpening in both X-Transformer and Lightroom, but since then, after more experimenting, I’ve come up with a different way of using it.Īs with anything to do with sharpening, and the look of the files, this is purely subjective, and you may not like what I like. As I have previously mentioned, there are lots of different combinations of settings that you can use, all of which will give you differing results. Saturation will not be reached until 1024 levels.I’ve written a few times now about using Iridient’s X-Transfomer to pre-process Fuji X-Trans files for use in Lightroom. It allows me to automate AE by bracketing 9 exposuresīy definition, a cameras like Fuji X-E2 or X-T2 both have dynamic ranges of more than 10 EVs. There is so much headroom with shadow recovery, you can underexpose by 2 f/stops that why I like the new ver 2 firmware. Unless I'm pointed at the sun, I don't have a lot of issues with highlight recovery. I find that the method that Fuji AE applies works mostly for me. ![]() Yes we all know if the file is saturated - it is toast. Tell us something we don't know -)! The question was how the conversion of Fuji Raw through DNG to a editing program compares in high-light recover vs. I have done a lot of testing using clouds and once the pixel is at 256, even Photoshop can't recover anything from it. That's why Fuji cameras have a bias towards under exposing to protect the highlights. If the pixel was less than 256, there is a possibility to recover it. I have done a lot of testing using clouds and once the pixel is at 256, even Photoshop can't recover anything from it.īy definition, a color pixel with a value of 256 is pure white (all colors). That's why Fuji cameras have a bias towards under exposing to protect the highlights. You will still have some ability to edit highlights after the processing to TIFF, more so than say with a camera JPEG, but for best results or in extreme cases you'd want to deal with the over exposure issues in Iridient Developer at the RAW stage.īy definition, a color pixel with a value of 256 is pure white (all colors). In the Iridient Developer case for best results you'd need to make the highlight recovery edits in Iridient Developer prior to exporting the TIFF to Lightroom or other image editors for further processing. With Iridient Developer (separate Mac only program) the exported TIFF will have much less highlight recovery headroom as the image will have exposure and other color processing applied. With X-Transformer final highlight recovery results will entirely depend on the final RAW processor used to edit the DNG and in most cases should basically be the same as if you were to make the identical highlight recovery edits to the RAF. Sharpening in X-Transformer can also be entirely disabled. Sharpening can alter contrast a bit, but any shifts in brightness from sharpening should be quite minimal and overall exposure should basically be unchanged from the RAF. With Iridient X-Transformer the original RAF image data is almost entirely passed through to the DNG image with no change at all to native color or exposure information. Sounds like the OP should download a trial and test it and then report back. ![]() I have not used X-transformer to do how much that was ported over to the DNG converter. I find that Iridient Developer (Mac) does a wonderful job at highlight recovery. If it look promising, then reduce the highlight slider and see where that takes you. You might want to examine the file in Adobe Bridge (don't have to import to use it) to see what kind of head room you have. If the overexposed values are less than 256, then there might be hope. If your exposure is 256, then nothing can be done to recover because what is recorded is white. The file that Iridient X-Transformer generates is actually a DNG. Is these things fully recoverable from the tiff file generated by the Iridient comparing to the RAW file editing in Lightroom or Capture One? What I mean is same degree of recoverability. But if the picture is a bit over-exposed or need some highlight recovery. I am using Windows, totally new to Iridient. ![]()
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