The X-Factor of Fudging ISO

Both software and camera starts with the same RAW data and ends up with 8bit image at the end. The benefit of doing it in software is that you have full control over the process. It used to be paramount because the in-camera RAW->8bit was always lacking in comparison to what you can do manually - largely for noise and wrong exposure where we need pull or push.

But in case of Fuji, this may be not so. Here were are applying old habit that was necessary for other cameras to a camera where it may not give much benefit. A software processed xpro1 RAW image may not look significantly better than the jpeg, at best you may end up with the same but with much more elaborate process.

If the goal is only a normal color correction without need to pull or push exposure then 8bit->cc->8bit give as good results as 14bits->cc->8bit because color correction only changes linearity but doesn't introduce clipping.