p.2 #1 · Should Phocus Desktop For Mac be My/Your X2Dii Best Option?
tommmi wrote:
Sorry, unfortunately none of the photos from that day were worthy to be preserved. Gone for good.
(This got me thinking, maybe I should trigger the backups immediately after import, although Time Machine takes them every hour, but I can be done with the culling before that. That's exactly what happened here, but these weren't kind of shots that I would worry about..)
But this can be easily reproduced. Here's an example photo, taken with CFV100C with 75P using ISO6400.
Didn't touch any adjustment or setting in neither software. Just open file and export to JPG.
Phocus applies lens corrections, that's why the jpg's seem a little different.
Feel free to play with these
I just noticed that HNNR RAW files produced from the latest version on Phocus (v4.1) are looking different in Iridient than in Phocus. My preferred choice from these would be detail-prioritised HNNR exported from Phocus. For some reason, that looks worse in Iridient, almost as watercolorly as original un-edited RAW in Phocus.....Show more →
thanks tommmi, i'll use these and compare the HNNRs variants and pure raw via bwcolor's recc
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phocus chroma noise and color profile is best, but i like the granularity of the Noiseless RAW in luminar neo. iri seems to shift the color too far and have a little weirder denoise gradients in some parts
p.2 #3 · Should Phocus Desktop For Mac be My/Your X2Dii Best Option?
I'm using XnView to import, cull and organize my photos. I've been thinking should I try Bridge, I once used it but found it way too heavy and a bit extra step in-between, while I was using Lightroom as my main RAW developer.
But nowadays all editing software I use has very basic management features in contrast to Lightroom.
p.2 #4 · Should Phocus Desktop For Mac be My/Your X2Dii Best Option?
Pardon the Phocus newbie question, what is not available in Phocus mobile that Desktop for Mac version provides? Have been running files from card into LR for edits given the workflow of Phocus Desktop, but the mobile version is a lot better, so what would be missing if mobile outputs are used in LR, for masking etc?
p.2 #5 · Should Phocus Desktop For Mac be My/Your X2Dii Best Option?
bwcolor wrote:
I’m using a second post in order to ask this question.
In the above quote the author states that, “ HNCS + TIFF editing means exporting TIFF from Phocus with HNCS baked in, then editing in your preferred application. This is the workflow many X System photographers have adopted to combine Hasselblad's color science with more capable editing tools. But your final output is limited to SDR - no gain map, no HDR luminance on displays. The luminance relationships in your highlights have already been tone-mapped to fit within the TIFF's SDR ceiling, and no software can recover what's been compressed.”
Is this true? I thought that TIFF contains all information available in the RAW..edited RAW files. In Lightroom the HDR check box remains active in TIFF, but without adjustment the histogram remains in the more restricted SDR range. Am I throwing away information when importing TIFF from Phocus into Lightroom Classic?...Show more →
That’s a good question. It wasn’t answered here; may I ask if you ever found the answer elsewhere?
Although, in theory, TIFF surely should be able to handle HDR, I’m wondering if there is a limitation in the way that Phocus exports TIFFs that may prevent them from working correctly (including HDR information) in Lightroom?
p.2 #6 · Should Phocus Desktop For Mac be My/Your X2Dii Best Option?
I am really averse to new workflows simply because companies can’t adapt to the SoA of doing things and paying for appropriate royalties. That said, I installed Phocus and was floored. It may be limited in efficiency (or I do not know how to create what would seem like profiles or presets), but the one-off image results are mind blowing.
The other key thing to realize is that the numbers in Phocus have no relation to numbers for similar steps in LR. For instance, I often use ~65 for sharpening in LR but ~225 in Phocus yields similar (actually WAY better) results. While the HNCS indeed gets close to colors of what I shoot, the images are a bit under saturated and shifted a bit away from blue, BUT their implementation of grading is sooooo much more intuitive than LR.
My sole complaint with Phocus is that its downsizing is not as good as Photoshop. Granted, PS had a ~30 year head start.
I completely accidentally discovered that Phocus is also happy to edit my Q3 43 files. It does that equally well. [ Don’t tell Hasselblad…or Leica]. I prefer the SilverEfex/LR approach for BW images, but slower Phocus is a surprisingly good platform form individual image quality.
p.2 #7 · Should Phocus Desktop For Mac be My/Your X2Dii Best Option?
Phocus is excellent. Just be sure to prevent import from overwriting already edited images, which is possible with some import settings after a crash. DxO Pure RAW is a nice pre-processing tool for improving RAW files before development.
Also, like pickles and cucumbers, once a TIFF, no longer a RAW.
