And even then only on very special images the client may want to print. (UPDATE: Now I’m on the X-T5 I find I’m getting better results in LR than before and I’m only using DxO Pure Raw 2 on the noisiest high ISO images. When I was shooting with the X-T3 I started running almost every wedding and PR shoot image over ISO 3200 through DxO PureRaw 2 before I exported to JPG and the results were excellent. There was a bumpy start with quite a few bugs, but I’m happy to say that after a few months of updates most of the bugs are gone and it’s incredibly powerful. It sounds perfect for Fuji shooters, especially us wedding and event photographers!
With a LR plugin the idea is you edit your Fuji raw files, put the finished raws through PureRaw 2’s DeepPrime tool and have the resulting dng files imported seamlessly back into your LR catalog with the existing raw edits copied over too. It also does distortion control, although this is largely on a par with what LR can do with Fuji files. With PureRaw 2, DxO have added Fuji raw file support that promises vastly superior de-mosaicing, de-noising, and sharpening than Lightroom can offer. Enter, the DxO PureRaw 2 plugin for Lightroom At the sizes most clients print images, the output is absolutely fine, if a little noisier at high ISO than I know my files could be in other apps. My entire workflow is built around Lightroom so I learned to make Lightroom work for me. And they’re a lot of effort to use on a more than a couple of shots.
I’ve dabbled with Topaz Labs tools like DeNoise and Sharpen, but found the DeNoise tool was prone to producing plasticky smooth images even with every slider turned down. My workflow for editing my Fuji raw files is pretty straightforward and I don’t tend to use anything other than Lightroom to import, edit, and export to JPG.īut let’s face it: while Lightroom is certainly ‘good enough’, Adobe doesn’t seem to know how to properly de-mosaic and de-noise/sharpen raws from Fuji’s X-Trans sensor, or just doesn’t care enough to add dedicated handling for them. I’d never heard of DxO PureRaw before March 2022.
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