Bill Pierce
Well-known
A lot of us elderly rangefinder photographers are interested in the X-Pro. We all got into photojournalism at a time when rangefinders dominated photojournalism and much of 35mm film photography. The X-Pro provides the bright-line finder, the smaller than a DSLR boy, mechanical controls and a few other features that we are used to. But Fuji has not been super cooperative with the folks that create the independent image processing programs that support a great variety of programs and are used by the majority of digital photographers. In a sense Fuji has kayoed their own camera. Web publication and conventional prints are fine. But in a day when exhibition prints can get pretty big, the available image processing software can and does have problems.
Check out
http://chromasoft.blogspot.com/2012/06/fuji-x-pro1-lightroom-and-silkypix.html
for some pretty intelligent thoughts on this. Note that the first line of the article has links to 4 previous articles on the same subject. These are the articles are the “required reading.”
At my end, in the great majority of cases I’ve been getting the best overall results with prints of pictures that benefited from being technically excellent with Raw Photo Processor 64 as have some other X-Pro users. I’m still learning the program. its interface is far different from most image processing programs, and there is a learning curve. Most often Adobe (in my case, Lightroom) comes in number 2 and the Adobe programs do a good job. Fuji furnished SilkyPix come in last, not awful, but last. In many cases, this is pointless hair splitting. But not for those beautiful exhibition prints. And not for a camera that has eliminated the anti-aliasing filter, come up with a unique sensor pattern and made claims that it’s APS-C sensor equals or exceeds the quality of some full frame sensors.
Maybe it’s time for us X-Pro’s (sounds like a retirement club) to pool our information. Any thoughts on image processing from other X-Pro users out there?
Check out
http://chromasoft.blogspot.com/2012/06/fuji-x-pro1-lightroom-and-silkypix.html
for some pretty intelligent thoughts on this. Note that the first line of the article has links to 4 previous articles on the same subject. These are the articles are the “required reading.”
At my end, in the great majority of cases I’ve been getting the best overall results with prints of pictures that benefited from being technically excellent with Raw Photo Processor 64 as have some other X-Pro users. I’m still learning the program. its interface is far different from most image processing programs, and there is a learning curve. Most often Adobe (in my case, Lightroom) comes in number 2 and the Adobe programs do a good job. Fuji furnished SilkyPix come in last, not awful, but last. In many cases, this is pointless hair splitting. But not for those beautiful exhibition prints. And not for a camera that has eliminated the anti-aliasing filter, come up with a unique sensor pattern and made claims that it’s APS-C sensor equals or exceeds the quality of some full frame sensors.
Maybe it’s time for us X-Pro’s (sounds like a retirement club) to pool our information. Any thoughts on image processing from other X-Pro users out there?
