Alternative to SilkyPix

[dcsang]

FYI: From Adobe's Lightroom Blog regarding release candidate 2 for Lightroom 4.1:

NOTE: The Lightroom and Camera Raw team is well aware of the new X-Pro1 camera from FUJIFILM. We are currently developing raw support for the X-Pro1 and look forward to providing it as soon as support is complete. Thanks for your patience on this topic.

Source: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal?s=+X-Pro1

Cheers,
Dave

 

[jsrockit]

LR was updated again... still no support. Oh well. At least they acknowledged the camera.

 

[hub]

I'd looked a various digital asset management tools to use in keeping track of my photos and LR does that acceptably for me.
I find it to be very user friendly, particularly so in comparison to Photoshop.

I have friends using Aperture to find it to be excellent.

Either tool will involve some learning curve but it should be pretty straightforward.

I use Aperture. And I shoot the X-Pro1 in RAW+JPEG and import (JPEG as master). When they release support for its RAW files, I'll just switch to RAW. Aperture will allow me to switch (image by image basis, and default at import time).

Lightroom is fine too, but I found it less suited for my organizational needs.

I do believe that one can't seriously shoot digital (with RAW) and not use a tool like Aperture or Lightroom. Unlike Photoshop (or equivalent) which I consider unnecessary.

 

[mouren]

Here is an open source alternative
http://www.fujix-forum.com/index.php?/topic/4398-dave-coffins-dcraw-output/

Which works fairly well, and it can be automated if you know how to do shell scripting or using the Automator.

 

[mouren]

forgot to mention, dcraw outputs to TIFF, about as close to usable RAW it gets right now.

 

[hub]

Here is an open source alternative
http://www.fujix-forum.com/index.php?/topic/4398-dave-coffins-dcraw-output/

Which works fairly well, and it can be automated if you know how to do shell scripting or using the Automator.

But not on the original website. The new dcraw hasn't been posted yet. I just checked.

 

[wintoid]

I put a compiled version of dcraw for Windows with Fuji support in my Dropbox here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/76292773/dcraw.exe

Download at your own risk etc etc

Let me know if you're able to download it and get it to work. It makes TIFFs for me no problem.