How do you deal with X3F files ?

TN Args wrote:

larryj wrote:

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.

and has limited functionality !

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... ?

I currently use the Sigma Photoshop add-in to process my
Sigma files directly for the X3F Raw files. The raw files are brought into Photoshop as a PDF file and processed in Camera Raw and then photoshop if more downstream processing is necessary, 80+% of my images are completed in Camera Raw.

Prior to the Sigma add-in my workflow was SSP to Tiff then to Lightroom or Photoshop.

Hope this is helpful to you,

Your feedback would be very helpful,

Regards,

MG

PDF? Amazing!

I use SPP's browse module to decide on keepers, then batch all photos to high quality JPEG, SPP set to portrait mode, Luminance NR 0 (fully left), Sharpness -1.5.

I then use any handy editor to examine in detail, crop where needed, and make any small adjustments. These go in with my general photos collection.

I also use the JPEGs to decide on favourites for further work, whereupon I return to SPP and make a TIFF and edit in detail with Affinity Photo. That was until earlier this year, when I discovered Affinity Photo suddenly had the ability to process X3F (Quattro) very nicely, so I now take favourite X3Fs directly into Affinity for editing.

cheers

Wow! That's awesome that Affinity does a good job with the Quattro raw files. Thanks for letting us know.

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