Bill Pierce
Well-known
Sorry for my disappearance from the forum. On the road for several weeks and my laptop and internet access went south.
A lot of rangefinder folks have found the Fuji X-100 and X-Pro series of interest because they have the option of a bright line viewfinder much like a conventional rangefinder camera. In an interesting development, Iridient Developer, whose image processing is much admired for its excellent results with Fuji’s non-Bayer files, released, for both Windows and Mac, X-Transformer, a program which converts the Fuji files into dng files. While Iridient Developer is a full featured image processing program, Transformer simply converts to dng so Iridient’s high quality Fuji conversions can be passed on to a variety of raw image processors. For many folks that means Lightroom. While later generations of Lightroom have improved their performance with Fuji files, Iridient still does a better job, especially with very fine detail. By passing the Iridient advantage on to photographers who have settled on Lightroom and know it so well that it makes sense to stick with it in spite of its slight disadvantages with Fuji files, Transformer gives them the best of both worlds. I’ve only been using it for about a week, but I have been using it with the large number of recent photographs I took on the road and am very pleased. Some of you have at least as much experience with X-Transformer as I have and some have more. I would love to hear your thoughts.
A lot of rangefinder folks have found the Fuji X-100 and X-Pro series of interest because they have the option of a bright line viewfinder much like a conventional rangefinder camera. In an interesting development, Iridient Developer, whose image processing is much admired for its excellent results with Fuji’s non-Bayer files, released, for both Windows and Mac, X-Transformer, a program which converts the Fuji files into dng files. While Iridient Developer is a full featured image processing program, Transformer simply converts to dng so Iridient’s high quality Fuji conversions can be passed on to a variety of raw image processors. For many folks that means Lightroom. While later generations of Lightroom have improved their performance with Fuji files, Iridient still does a better job, especially with very fine detail. By passing the Iridient advantage on to photographers who have settled on Lightroom and know it so well that it makes sense to stick with it in spite of its slight disadvantages with Fuji files, Transformer gives them the best of both worlds. I’ve only been using it for about a week, but I have been using it with the large number of recent photographs I took on the road and am very pleased. Some of you have at least as much experience with X-Transformer as I have and some have more. I would love to hear your thoughts.
