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I left the sharpening and noise reduction at the Adobe Lightroom defaults. I made adjustments to exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, vibrancy, and saturation. The featured image in this blog post is a FujiFilm X-T2 RAF post-processed in Adobe Lightroom. I don't recall anyone suggesting that I use a pair of binoculars or a magnifying glass so that I could better appreciate the work. I've visited many art and photography galleries in my lifetime.

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However, if you are a photographer, professional or amateur, for whom the technical bits of photography is not the main point, then I think you must do whatever produces the results you want, even if it's the SOOC JPEG. If you are a professional photographer, aka someone whose source of income is photography, who must produce the best technical image, the difference may be of concern to you. that there's very little practical difference. I think that once an image has been post-processed, then downsized and compressed for the web - most photographs are being shared online via blogs, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Other photographers have taken a 'zoom in until you find a difference' approach, testing the software, only to discover that the difference varies very subtlely between photographs and other factors help make the decision. I think it's mostly ignorance from some photographers. To find out more about Iridient Developer, check out the comparison below from Zed ProMedia.The buzz around the web is that Adobe Lightroom does a shitty job with the handling of RAW FujiFilm X-Trans files and that Iridient X-Transformer is the fix. The program costs $30 to register, doing so will remove the watermarked outputs. Iridient wants photographers can try it out and compare results to Adobe Lightroom or other RAW processors.

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The Windows beta of Iridient X-Transformer is available for a free fully functional demo with exported images containing a watermark. Metadata tags are embedded in the exported DNG files that will instruct Lightroom to not apply further sharpening or noise reduction. Noise reduction is optional and can be adjusted (low/med/high) or disabled.

Color and luminance noise reduction – The noise reduction processing in Iridient X-Transformer is specifically optimized for RAW image processing.Automatic lens corrections for distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting – Corrections are based on native Fujifilm lens information specified in their RAF metadata.Sharpening is optional and can be adjusted (low/med/high) or disabled. Sharpening – Iridient X-Transformer features advanced sharpening based on the very highly regarded “Iridient Reveal”.The algorithms are identical to the latest “detail+” and “smooth” options in Iridient Developer 3.1.3. There are two interpolation options, one for a more detailed rendering and a second smoother, lower artifact version. This processing is always applied by Iridient X-Transformer and cannot be disabled or undone. Interpolation or demosaic processing – This transforms the camera sensor information to produce a full-color RGB image.The key RAW processing stages that can be applied by Iridient X-Transformer during conversion to DNG include: Using the same demosaic processing algorithms found in Developer, users have control over how images will be rendered. The Iridient X-Transformer converts Fujifilm’s proprietary RAF image data to the open Adobe DNG image format. However, Iridient Digital is bringing its high-quality RAW processing algorithms to Windows with their X-Transformer. But as a Mac-only program Windows users were left to their own devices. REWIND: įor a while now, Iridient Developer has been a go to for some X-Photographers for its light familiar interface and its ability to extract detail from X-Trans files producing really impressive results in a way that you can’t easily achieve in Lightroom.

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