

You should see sharpening with these files as an essential step in your processing workflow. When it comes to X-Trans files, much has improved in the last six months since Adobe have been working closely with Fujifilm and you can now even dial-in Fuji’s in-camera film emulations for RAW files.īecause of the architecture of the X-Trans sensor (and the way this information is stored), additional sharpening is needed in order to ‘pull’ these images into focus. Let’s face it, they are the industry standard, support new cameras more quickly and do a decent job for most RAW formats from other brands. But I missed the flexibility of Lightroom, not to mention that my images from other cameras were still being handled by Lightroom. I started looking for another RAW developer and went for Capture One, which absolute did a far better jab at decoding the Fuji RAW files. When I bought my first X-Trans sensor camera (the Fuji X100S), I believe these RAW files were not even supported, and when they finally were, they looked very soft with strange colour anomalies. Other significant advantages for me are that you can easily use third party plug-ins, edit in Photoshop straight from the application itself and that Lightroom has the most straightforward export options. I’ve personally been using Adobe Lightroom for years, as it is not just a RAW developer, but also one of the easiest ways of building and maintaining your image library on your desktop computer. And indeed, Jpeg’s straight out of the camera look stunning, but the RAW files can often look soft in comparison, especially if you’ve based your image workflow around Adobe’s Lightroom application. The X-Trans CMOS II sensor array lets the sensor capture unfiltered light from the lens, achieving excellent resolution. These filters are used in conventional systems to inhibit moiré at the expense of resolution. The Fuji X-Trans CMOS II sensor incorporates an original colour filter array with an extremely random pattern, eliminating the need for an optical low-pass filter (OLPF). Third party RAW developers for Fuji X-TRANS files in Lightroom Introduction
