In the Fuji community, there are certain people who are totally snotty about the ACR/Lightroom processing of the X-trans raw files and would only use one of these niche products. I look at their example shots and can’t see the difference myself....
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/04/2014 12:30 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >> >> Conversion to DNG is pretty trivial for raw files using Bayer filter >> sensors. Once the order of the bit patterns is known they all work the >> same way. However Foveon and what ever Fuji X-trans sensors are enough >> different to require lots of special processing. I wouldn't be >> surprised if the DNG conversion of those files completely rewrites the >> data, as opposed to Bayer data that just requires a common instruction >> set. >> > > Whatever is happening to decode them, Adobe doesn't have the best method > from what I've been reading. There is something called Irridiant (sp) for > Mac, and Photo Ninja, I believe for both that do quite a bit better than the > Adobe decode. I have to decide if I want to upgrade Lightroom for the > convenience or buy new software. > > bill > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

