Does Sony Own Or Pay Adobe??

CAcreeks wrote:

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

I did quickie Lightroom edits on a few RAW images from the X-H1 sample gallery with my default Fuji profile. These aren't in the greatest light, and I did give the WB a little tweaking here and there where it was obviously off, but these basically look how they look and I think the skin tones are fairly decent, no?

You're good in the dark of the Lightroom, Erik. Those are all better than the out-of-camera equivalents in the sample gallery.

At high ISO Fuji apparently does a lot of noise reduction, which reduces sharpness. Whatever noise reduction you did, less so. Nothing wrong with white balance or skin tones, either way.

Thanks, with Lightroom, a RAW file and a little know-how you can get the color to look however you want it to look. Whether you want your Sony files to look like Fuji's or the other way around, you can do that. There's a lot more to Lightroom beyond the default import settings and the basic slider adjustments that most people never really learn to make the most of.

RAW files are not images at all, just raw sensor data that can be interpreted and processed in many different ways. Whatever beautiful or horrible color you are seeing in Lightroom, Capture One (or whatever) was applied to the colorless RAW file by that editor. If the files from one camera can have great color, the files from a different camera can have great color too.

Some custom import settings and a different color profile (or customizing your own)  will go a long way towards achieving better results in any editor.