Silkypix Raw File Converter settings

Tim Simmons wrote:

stillman3 wrote:

Adam Bonn has made a 4 part article on using RFC

https://adambonn.com/my-love-affair-with-the-fujifilm-x-pro1/xp2-thirty-seven/

This is very useful.

Cheers Eric

That's the tutorial that got me comfortable enough to go ahead and purchase Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 7. Now if there could be more guidance on that version...

I feel strangely scared that I've somehow led you down a dark alley ;D

I use SP7 Pro a lot and have done for about 7 months, there's still things I can't really get my head around in it.. When I get it singing, I really like it though.

I'm not really obessive about pixel peeping (fair play to those that are, it's just not me) so I wouldn't have any specific sharpening settings to offer. My opinion is that the natural sharp performs better than the RFC engine though.

It also seems (a lot of the time) to make a better job of artifact control with one of the Fuji sims than a native one

If you're performing highlight recovery, the highlight controller sliders can be useful, they seem to work better and give you more with the normal highlight slider rather than the HDR one

conversely, the HDR shadow slider seems to have far more to give than the normal shadow slider

If you're playing with exposure push, then there's definitely a relationship to balance between NR and demosaicing sharpness or else it seems to run out of colour gamut, it's not like (say) LR when you can 'just' bump the exposure slider 3 stops and then deal with the noise

Base ISO shots, I zero out all of the NR sliders, I find the colour noise one in particular to be far to aggressive at base ISO

Some one earlier in the thread asked about changing the defaults it uses with images, I cover this in my artcile that's linked in this thread by someone else, but basically, make a taste and set it as the default.

Make any sharp/NR/demosaicing changes you want at the very end or the very begining, these take the longest for SP to apply and keep you waiting quite a while for the file to preview... although you might very well have a better computer than I do!

I wrote the article about RFC because info on it seemed sparse and I read to many people claiming it "didn't have many features" and I thought, well it's far from the last word in image manipulation, but it has a ton of decent stuff for the tog that can expose well in camera and it's free.

I didn't realise that anyone had actually read it

Then I saw this thread in my site traffic stats and thought I'd say hi and see what you were all saying.

If anyone has taken any benefit from that RFC article, then I'm delighted, it was a real PITA to write!