At 1:52 pm +0000 4/2/03, Shangara Singh wrote:
On the whole, I think Eric has done a good job but MacBibble seems a little rushed at the last minute. Personally, I would've released it as a public beta first and ironed out a few more bugs before releasing it as a working application.
Probably my fault for mailing him once a week to ask when it'd be ready :-(
I have found a slightly better workflow which is to dump FinePixViewer (natch), view all my .RAF files in i-View MediaPro. I've added EXConvertor to my list of Helper apps and configured it so double click launches it as the creator application.I'm going to wait for the the Adobe RAW plug-in as it's supposed to be out "soon." As things stand, if you use OS X and shoot RAF on an S2, there's only MacBibble and the forthcoming Adobe plug-in to choose from - unless Fuji pull their finger out and provide a decent RAW convertor.
With practise I've found I can just about cobble along with EXConvertor, now I've created a lot of loadable configurations of curve and grey balance. By shift clicking similar files in the i-View lightbox you can have EXConvertor batch convert them. Then you tweak them in 16bit Photoshop.
If you're used to Leaf or Sinar (and no doubt Lightphase et al) this is a very clunky solution but it is an adequate stop-gap till Adobe (or Fuji, ho, ho, ho) come up with the goods.
Mike
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