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How do you deal with X3F files ?

Started Nov 3, 2021 | Questions thread
atom14
atom14 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,301
Re: How do you deal with X3F files ?
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MGinitials wrote:

Dear all,

I have recently acquired a long wanted DP1 Merrill. I shoot raw and thus have to deal with X3F files. I have been using Capture One for a little while now and am quite happy with it. However X3F files are not - to my knowledge - natively supported.

I tried SPP, but... It is clunky.

I am thus curious to know what is your usual workflow to edit X3F files : do you use SPP, do you export as a TIFF (or else...) and then use you prefered editing application, etc... ?

Your feedback would be very helpful,

Regards,

MG

I left your initial bolded text and just added bold and italic to the other point of issue.

I do not find the raw files as something I have to "deal" with, but as a source of much potential information (that I hope I managed to capture reasonably well). So I think you have only set yourself a hurdle to "deal with".

Do you expect some sort of faster-than-light software, and if so, like what? If "clunky" means you find it hard to use (I can't think of what else it could apply to), then after getting to know some of its uniquely attuned functions and some practice, you might change your appraisal - or actually form a reasoned one.

The rest:

For me it's usually SPP > jpegs > Photoshop.

atom14.

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