Fuji S5 Pro in 2018... Madness?

Andreascy wrote:

gwynngee wrote:

Hi Paul, If you are shooting raw you really need to be using the Fuji HU software to see the intended Fuji colors. I have just bought a 2009 Mac pro , loaded a copy of Snow Leopard ,added Rosetta , then reloaded my old Fuji Soft ware. Well , talk about chalk & cheese. ACR does not give anything like the Fuji Software. The tone curve and color response is very different and the image is no longer interpolated to a 12.1 m/px image as the chip was intended to be. I am in the process of writing a set of presets for ACR. What I have noticed so far .

Blue response. In ACR it will always be a compromise , ACR will not reproduce the blue swatch without destroying the mid and light blue swatches . So to adjust the blue response you have to work on the mid blue swatch and live with what you get in the darker blues.

Magenta response, in a couple of the film response settings the magenta hue is pushed as far as it will go towards the red in the HSL tab and it just makes it.

Cyan is another tricky one.

Skin Tone. The problem here seems to be the response of the darker skin tone color in respect to the lighter skin tone. If you get the light skin tone color right the darker tone looses red( looks greyish) . If you get the darker tone right , the light one gets really bad.

Are you mad to get an S5 , no way. A 6 m/p image with a 25 meg raw file describing it, it has so much information describing it. They are so pliable.

Since the S5 I have used 4 or 5 Nikon cameras and still use the S5 for certain jobs. I don't know how many times i look at the files from my different Nikons and think " why didn't I use the S5". I guess it is because (even though most of what I shoot these days ends up on a web page) I know the client will get them up on their screen blow them up to 100% and think they aren't sharp enough ??? To hell with color , tonality , HIGHLIGHT color response & roll off.

The more you learn to handle the files from the S5 the more you will be amazed by that chip. It brought a whole new bent on expose to the right.

When the presets are finished I am happy to share. 8-9 years ago we made some available for the old ACR.( I say we because I emailed them to someone and he hosted a down load link) .

The reason I am going through this again is I am trying to fix up my Nikon DF. For those instances when I say " why didn't I use the Fuji".

Hello. until now i was using the lightroom raw converter and after i check this conversation i tried different raw converters so i can compare, i try the rawtherapee , the s7raw converter , the capture one . The only it came close to the original jpeg was the lightroom.

But have you tried Hyper Utility? That’s the only serious challenge to Lightroom IMHO.

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