Silkypix Raw File Converter settings

third son wrote:

Adam Bonn wrote:

third son wrote:

It would be interesting to see a comparison between the ITX and Silkypix RAW converter on busy foliage.
-Paul

Do you mean the ID X-Trans DNG convertor?

I suspect that XID would edge it, especially on mid to far distance objects

Give it a go - SP V7 has a trial usage period, XID is trial forever with a watermark and RFC is completely FOC

Hi Adam....I read your blog with regards to RFC after I had been using it for a while. Thanks for the terrific write up! I also tried the ID X-Trans DNG converter-->LR6. I don't see a lot of difference myself. I also looked into RawTherapee-->LR6 or DxO Pro 11. Photoninja also seems to do pretty well but I didn't want to pay $100 for just a demosaicing tool.

I figured the Silkypix RFC was designed for my XT1 so went into it with a preconceived notion that it should be pretty good. This bias may have swayed my decision not to purchase the XID-->DNG converter at this time.

That is also why I asked if anyone else had made that comparison.

Hi Paul,

Thanks very much.

The problem with this sort of thing is that it can be user subjective, very dependant on what screen we use and ultimately very much based on how tolerant we are on imperfections within our images.

How often do we see someone post an image they consider to be sharp only to be debunked by someone else?

Digital sharpness is effectively micro contrast (IMO) and when we sharpen a shot we can easily face the dilema of some bits looking great and other bits looking too crunchy, so do we downgrade the great bits to merely good and lose the bad, or do we decide that the bad bits are unimportant and great should remain?

This is why sharpening is an image-by-image affair and not a 'hey guys if you set your sharpening to XYZ on all your shots, then it's fantastic' like we often see written on the net...

Sorry a bit of a philosophical digression there

I've played a LITTLE bit with XID, made some dngs and put them into SilkyPix

My OPINION?

it's win some, lose some, draw some tbh

XID (for me) beats SP V7 with mid to far away fine detail, I need to zoom in, but to my eye it's there for sure (OMMV)

To my eye XID is APPROX equal to SP v7 on close up stuff, again OMMV

To my eye XID is a BIT worse than SP v7 on high ISO stuff where it also brings out a bit of noise and NR removes any detail advantage

But I haven't played with XID extensively and there's bound to be better settings for different shots, both in XID itself and in the app that one uses to edit the dng

There also seems to be a lens connotation as well...

XID gives me more from my 35/1.4 (compared to SP v7 in the conditions outlined above) than it does my xf18. This is quite possibly because the 35 is sharper than the 18 so there's more scope for fine detail

Like you say $100 for PN that you'll most likely only use for demosaicing is a lot

But IMO $30 for a demosaicing tool that works better on a handful of shots is probably worth getting, but I'm going to sleep on it for a bit and wait to next month