The Fuji S5 Pro, my most filmic camera

fPrime wrote:

Neil-O wrote:

bobogdan78 wrote:

I think you can find it on the Fuji S5 Flickr group, the first discussion, hope the link is still valid.

It is.

I'm surprised though that the mod who has the link seemingly prefers to use Lightroom. It didn't take me long to realise that despite the infuriating interface and slowness of HU3, it is the only sure way of extracting the richness from S5pro files.

I wouldn't recommend trying to sharpen the images in HU3 though, there are far better ways to do it in modern software.

The S5 Pro is notoriously soft coming out of Hyper Utility unsharpened. What sharpening process are you using to sharpen?

fPrime

I tend to use Topaz AI Sharpen most of the time simply because I've found the (Stabilize) auto setting to be so reliable there's no need to play around with the sliders.  I started using Topaz as a way of sharpening scanned film and to me the basic HU3 tiff files look very much like unsharpened film scans.

I have done side by side comparisons using PS smart sharpen and I think Topaz has the edge, but not by much.   Where Topaz does score is the way it keeps noise down at the same time - this isn't a big deal with S5 files as you are not using high ISO values but it's certainly invaluable when scanning film.

OTOH Topaz is slow, and I suspect will infuriate many photographers especially those raised in the digital age, but if you are processing with HU3 you already know about slow...