urban_alchemist
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Anyone know about Aperture support?
@larky
I’m always a little wary of giving tips on RAW developing, as your photography might be (and probably is) quite different to mine. In addition, you’re using an x100 rather than a Lumix G1, so it’s quite possible/probable that the results (using my settings) on your images might not please you. However, I’ll offer the settings that I use (as a starting-point) with the G1… these are as follows:-
Exposure
Exposure --- +0.2
Tone
Contrast --- 2.0
Contrast centre --- 0.30
Gamma --- 1.15
Black level --- 9
Colour
“Film Colour K” … (Saturation usually 1.0 to 1.2)
Sharpening
Natural
Highlight controller
DR expansion --- 3.0 (if Dynamic Range is a problem in the particular image being processed)
When doing black and white work, the above settings are amended as follows:-
Tone
Black level --- 15
Colour
“Monochrome 2”
I’ve saved these settings as Development Parameters (in the File menu), so that they can applied to an image quickly and easily. The usual fine-tuning then follows, until I see the desired result (or something tolerably close to it!).
Hopefully, these settings will provide a useful basis for you to experiment with your x100 RAW files, but if the results are awful, then I’m afraid that you’ll have to resort to starting from scratch, in order to get your own settings to suit the x100. Good luck…!
I have used SilkyPix for some Lumix shots in the past and found its output to be OK. However I do not like the software's GUI and partly for this reason I dont use it that much. Fortunately the Lumix's jpg engine produces some darn nice photos so I do not much have to rely on SilkyPix.
Of course this does not necessarily mean it works well with the x100 files!
Look what it did to this guys hair! This is exactly as per what you posted. Does it do this for you?
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For people who are sick of silky pix, here's a free alternative (mac only)
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24692/raw-photo-processor
Version 4.2.1:
Added initial support for Fuji X100 and Olympus E-PL2 (note "initial support."
Added new TrueFilm profiles - LF, TC4; updated K64 and V50
Replaced Red-O-Green profile with Duo profile
Bugfixes
REQUIREMENTS
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
The X100 captures 12-bit RAW images using the RAF file type that can be converted using customised Silkypix software; a copy of which is provided with the camera. Please note Fujifilm is co-operating fully to ensure that X100 RAF file support is added to third party applications as soon as possible. This compatibility is expected to be offered via a firmware update within a few months of launch.