I didn't think Lightroom on it's own did RAF's that poorly, but man this is like night and day. WOW Taemo, that is an amazing difference between them.
Only thing to be aware of is that the ~49MB RAF file becomes a ~60-90MB DNG file. I converted 2 RAF files to DNG and compared both side by side, there's definitely an improvement! Wow.now we see, what we couldn't see, or we were seeing poorly!Įxcellent presentation guys, there is a significant difference here! I also feel that many who were sitting on the fence about detail landscape images using the XT2/XPro2 may change their perspectives now Reasoning is that sharpening structure and algorithms are very different. I will be using Iridient as a standard part of my workflow now on all shots. Personally I love the XTrans files without the AA filter and it is wonderful to see the IQ that is now achievable. Fuji should have spent more effort in working with Brian on Iridient as it establishes an excellence in the final IQ that was always questioned by many before.
IRIDIENT DEVELOPER REVIEW WINDOWS
I would choose Iridient anytime over RawTherapee which is also excellent but very time consuming to set up.īasically Iridient is a very quick one step process, and you still maintain the integrity of the original RAF files.Ī large portion of the market using windows based platform, and now having Iridient this is game changing for Fuji with the XTrans raw files. Yes they have improved, but they are not in the same ball park as Iridient. This is very telling in my mind that the issues with the XTrans files that have been observed have not been the sensor but the raw developers in how they convert. I am amazed at the output from Iridient !!! I was not expecting such a difference in the sharpening profile and the structure when you are viewing at 100 and 200%. Once inside Lr CC all you need to do is Alt-Ctrl-E and will take you directly to Iridient. Just make sure you remember to turn sharpening to 0, otherwise you will see artifacts even with the default at 25. The instruction are very easy to follow in the help file, mid way down referring to "Lightroom's External Editing functionality". It is very quick.Īlso you can easily setup Iridient X Transformer as an external editor in Lr CC. The workflow virtually adds no extra time to post processing, as you don't have to sharpen/enhance the images, just add the desired color profile, and adjustments. When reviewing the folder again, the DNG will appear alongside the RAF files, so you can easily compare the differences. Make sure the default sharpening of 25 is turned off to 0.
Flip to Lr CC, and just right click of the folder and synchronize the folder and those shots will appear. Then pick the shots you wish to convert via Iridient with the appropriate settings and the default saves the converted DNG files in the same folder.
IRIDIENT DEVELOPER REVIEW DOWNLOAD
The best workflow in my mind is to download your shots as normal with Lr CC/PS maintaining the integrity of the RAF files and catalogue. The difference is quite dramatic.ĭNG files are being used extensively, and with the Leica M9/M240 all these RAW files were DNG format. Smitty great examples !! If this was a lens performance comparison, you would not even consider the more blurry/less sharp version of the lens. I have also enabled all of Iridient's lens corrections when it exports, but the differences are very drastic. With LR, the centers are pretty good but the corners (and edges in general) go apeshit for some reason. I processed the RAF to taste in LR as best I could, then took that RAF, made a DNG, then copied the adjustments to the DNG (excluding sharpening). It should be sharp everywhere as long as I focused correctly. Sorry for the large files, but some examples from the same photo. The cool thing is, since this is DNG, I can copy adjustments from one file (excluding sharpening) and copy into the DNG and get the same look.yet drastically different details. I don't know if LR's lens profile mechanics are off, but it ends up seriously smudging the corners. I've noticed, flipping back and forth between a RAF in LR and a DNG imported into LR, that LR seems to apply slightly more distortion correction. LR does some really, really shitty lens corrections in the corners for some reason. The strange thing is, it's not just the level of detail. I've found I most like "Detailed" render and "Medium" sharpening from Iridient, then I have to disable the sharpening that LR wants to apply upon importing it. Iridient Developer in now available for Windows !!!Īre most of you going to run every image through Iridient, or just the ones that may benefit from sharpening?.
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