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 p.1 #2 · Iridient developper 5 | |
Yes, you have to pixel-peep but the sharpening has a noticeable difference moving from v4 Detail+ RAW process to v5 HiFi. I'm using Iridient Reveal as the sharpening method.
I wouldn't distinguish them in an AB testing. If I would just have the two processed JPGs and had to guess, I wouldn't know from which of the two processes the photo came from.
Iridient is nice software, as it hasn't jumped into the AI hype. Sharpening methods somehow digs the fine-detail and information from the RAW data, and doesn't alter the photo, instead of how AI-software are generating imaginary details on top of your photo. Also the noise removal tries to value the details in the picture rather than make everything butter-smooth. That's for each own taste, but I take the details with grain any day than photos like oil paintings. And I know noise and grain can be kryptonite to many photographers.
Iridient is capable to de-saturize the color noise, which makes high ISO files more forgiving. The end result may still have grain and noise in it, but it's mainly monochromatic. That doesn't bother me as much as color noise does. And I found out just a few months ago how to do that! (You have to slide the 'color aliasing, fringing, moire' slide all the way to 8.)
I have used this software for three years now, and there are still features and quirks that I haven't learned or completely understood. For example, I haven't figured out yet a perfect camera curve profile to preserve highlights from various different camera bodies. What I mean by that is that for example Leica M11 produces JPGs with quite flat extreme highlights and that makes often the sky in the picture look more natural. Iridient, by default settings, blows the extreme highlights and while there are 'extreme highlight recovery' slider, it tends to pull down the rgb(255,255,255)-ish values to, for example, rgb(230,230,230) area for the whole picture. And no, the highlights are not blown in the original file, there are information there when you slide the exposure down a few steps, but it is the default profile that messes the thing. Better solution would be fine tuning the camera curve profile and gamma, and apply that as a new default preset for that camera body, but I haven't got satisfying results yet.
I use other software too and recently moved away from Iridient for editing Hasselblad files. Phocus really shines with those RAW files, it is much more capable of processing the files, although I'm not satisfied with the noise removal tool in Phocus. But I have an old habit to still avoid high ISOs, so it's not that big thing.
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