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I brought out one of the hottest commodities in the biz at the moment. There seems to be a bit more detail apparent in the C1 file, but nothing that a little tweaking in Lightroom couldn't bring back as well. There doesn't appear to be the smearing that was present in old Lightroom versions with X-Trans files.įor the next test, I wanted to use a model. Lightroom brings more of a washed out look to the photo, which is typical of unprocessed raw files. Right off the bat, it's obvious that Capture One seems more 'finished' than Lightroom. On the left is Capture One Lightroom is on the right: The Capture One version is Capture One 9.1.1.įirst up is ideal lighting. I took a well-exposed photo of musician Ryan Chrys, shot on my old Fujilm X-T1, imported the file into both Lightroom and Capture One, cropped, and set up a side-by-side comparison. For all of these photos, the Lightroom version was Lightroom CC 2015.5. I decided on testing the two factors that were the most important to me: output when I nail the lighting (ideal conditions) and output when I screw up the lighting (not so ideal). What I wanted to compare here, however, was how the programs handled X-Trans files right out of the gate. But, what to test?

Of course, each of these apps have noise reduction, color correction, and every other algorithm imaginable to tweak your photos to your heart's content. I'd rather do side-by-side comparisons and see if there are any glaring differences between the outputs of the two pieces of software at default settings.

#IRIDIENT DEVELOPER FUJI FILM SIMULATION SOFTWARE#

I think Iridient might have a winner on their hands.As I'm not a professional software reviewer by trade, I had no intention of throwing up a bunch of charts, graphs, doo-hickeys, and gizmos to make my assessment. It really does appear to give you the best of both worlds, if you don’t mind the extra step of batch processing first.

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Obviously this won’t be for everyone, and many people don’t have an issue with Lightroom’s Raw conversion anyway, but this eliminates any trace of artifacting from converted raw files, as far as I can see, while still giving you access to the full raw feature set of Lightroom. Instead, I just went through a folder of images and processed them as I would were I working with them normally.įunnily enough, because I had processed some of them in Lightroom already, and I’d saved the settings to disk, it actually read the adjustments from the metadata and embedded it in the DNG file. This isn’t an attempt to do a comparison or a test, because I’d need to pick some suitable images first. I batch processed them on windows, then brought them into Lightroom for processing. I wish I was able to try it without the watermark, or on a Mac, but all in good time I guess.įor now here are a few examples. I think the resulting images are a little different than exact straight conversions, but either way I’m really impressed with the limited testing that I’ve done so far. The only thing that didn’t work was that the auto rotation of files wasn’t properly detected, but other than that everything was fine. Highlight recovery, colour temperature and so on all work as you would expect with the resulting DNG files. You get a lot of detail in the files and yet, you are able to keep most of the benefits of using a raw file. It’s a bit slow on my Parallels setup too, but not unusable slow. Also, as it’s a demo, it currently watermarks files, making it kind of useless for actual work at this stage. The biggest benefit of course is you get to bypass Lightroom’s occasionally problematic demosaicing algorithm when it comes to using X-Trans files, while still being able to use most of the features of Lightroom as you would with a standard raw file. Some things are a bit different but I’ve only done a little testing so far. l was expecting to lose access to the Film simulation colour profiles, but they all work fine, even Across and Classic Chrome. In particular you lose automatic rotations. Secondly, by using this method, you do loose a couple of things when you go back to Lightroom, but so far it seems to work properly. First of all this is still beta software and the full feature set isn’t complete yet, from what I understand. It’s important to note a couple of things. Luckily, there is an easy work-around, and so, one copy of Parallels desktop later, and I was ready to test it out.

#IRIDIENT DEVELOPER FUJI FILM SIMULATION PC#

I was really intrigued when I read about this, but I didn’t have a PC to try it on.

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