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.
shawn
Veteran
I'm in the middle of a batch of 383 files right now.
I like using XTransformer with Fast Raw Viewer. FRV is excellent at culling the files ahead of time and it displays the RAW files very quickly. Select the ones you want to keep and then you can use the batch process option to send all the files directly to XTransformer. It does its thing and converts to DNG (with Iridient's excellent demosaicing and sharpening) and then I import the DNGs into Lightroom.
I also have Iridient Developer and use it for tough files. Batch processing a large number is quicker with XTransformer though.
Shawn
I like using XTransformer with Fast Raw Viewer. FRV is excellent at culling the files ahead of time and it displays the RAW files very quickly. Select the ones you want to keep and then you can use the batch process option to send all the files directly to XTransformer. It does its thing and converts to DNG (with Iridient's excellent demosaicing and sharpening) and then I import the DNGs into Lightroom.
I also have Iridient Developer and use it for tough files. Batch processing a large number is quicker with XTransformer though.
Shawn
agoglanian
Reconnected.
I sold my X-Pro 2 because I couldn't get fine detail out of it using lightroom (despite really enjoying working with the camera). Then I just heard about X-Transformer today and downloaded the demo. I was totally impressed with the results enough to make me completely regret selling my X-Pro 2 body and lenses. If only I'd been a bit patient...
taemo
eat sleep shoot
I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and while I don't use it for all of my shots because the DNG files consume more disk space than the RAW files, I primarily use it for my landscape shots where I check if I can gain additional sharpness.
here's some side by side comparison between RAF vs DNG
DNGvsRAF by Earl Dieta, on Flickr
DNGvsRAF2 by Earl Dieta, on Flickr
DNGvsRAF by Earl Dieta, on Flickr
DNGvsRAF_XE2 by Earl Dieta, on Flickr
RAFvsDNG_X100S2 by Earl Dieta, on Flickr
here's some side by side comparison between RAF vs DNG
DNGvsRAF by Earl Dieta, on FlickrDNGvsRAF2 by Earl Dieta, on FlickrDNGvsRAF by Earl Dieta, on FlickrDNGvsRAF_XE2 by Earl Dieta, on FlickrRAFvsDNG_X100S2 by Earl Dieta, on Flickr