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p.3 #20 · p.3 #20 · Iridient Developer in now available for Windows !!! | |
rdeloe wrote:
Some more loose ends (anybody know the answers?)
(1) Iridient can take care of lens correction directly (Apply Corrections to Image); these include distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting. It seems to do this better than Lightroom (do a side-by-side and check the corners to see what i mean -- or look at examples posted earlier in this thread).
So, if we let Iridient deal with these, we can turn them off in LR? I notice that the CA setting is still on by default.
(2) Has anyone tested to see whether or not Lightroom does a better job on noise reduction than Iridient developer? If so, for high ISO images the answer might simply be to turn it off in Iridient (which is an option). Iridient's developer does recommend leaving some noise reduction on even for low ISO images (and you certainly can add noise reduction in Lightroom).
My approach to Iridient Developer is to use it to get to a better starting point in Lightroom than I can with Lightroom alone. It seems to be entirely appropriate for this purpose given that if you import a RAF into Lightroom it's also applying "one size fits all" sharpening, noise reduction and lens corrections as a starting point (exactly what Iridient Developer is doing). So from my perspective I'm trying to figure out the Iridient settings that will give me that better starting point because I don't want to have to mess around with multiple different settings and imports in Iridient Developer depending on the character of the image (e.g., low ISO versus high ISO)....Show more →
I agree I am also using Iridient X Transformer as the initial demosacing and developer for the RAF files within Lr CC. From my evaluations there is no other program that comes close, except for RawTherapee and this requires setting many modules to optimize the raw conversion. RawTherappee could even be better, but this requires considerable time to set it up for a range of images. The beauty of Iridient is the simplicity and ease of the raw converter.
My workflow will not change for now, as I just import all my images normally within Lr CC. I have set up the external editor with Iridient X Transformer, and it is just a matter of Ctrl-Alt-E, to convert one or more images. This is the same for PS, just a Ctrl-E will export quickly in PS, with a Ctrl-S back in LrCC. The difference using this technique is that the files are named as TIFF's, rather DNG when you directly import the RAF files via Iridient. My understanding there is no difference.
Lr CC is very powerful, and the noise reduction for luminescence and color noise is superb. For all high ISO images I use usually a setting of 5-20 for luminescence and detail of 80. This works really well for all cameras, A7rII, A7s, D750, D810 and XT2. For very high ISO images if there is any color noise, just use a setting of 5 as this is more than enough surprisingly
With the Iridient converted DNG/TIFF files in Lr CC, all the normal functionalities remain, like the Fuji color profiles. I use the lens profile corrections via Iridient too.
In effect I am using Iridient X Transformer as demosaicing/development module with default settings. I am really surprised that Adobe, C1 Pro and others have not developed a dedicated XTrans demosaicing converter. This really should be the responsibility of Fuji if they wish the continued growth using the XTrans sensor.
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