![]() raw process “smooth” + “Preserve Lightroom settings” No + Turn Off Lightroom Sharpening Yes.raw process “more detailed” + “Preserve Lightroom settings” No + Turn Off Lightroom Sharpening Yes.Same with a copied layer of the image and a high pass filter applied as an overlay.ĭigging in the web, I learnt about Iridient X Transformer and tried : I first opened Photoshop on the Lightroom file with the sharpening amount of 0, I tried to apply alternatively both Nik Software plugins “Raw presharpener” and “Output sharpener”, but did not like the result so much. So I looked for an alternative to Lightroom for the development of Fuji raws. So I concluded it’s complicated to get sharpness along with no artifacts, and even when it’s possible, it’s on an image basis, and it then involves a lot of uncertain per image work… Either the image is unsharp, or worms are here. I played around with the four parameters in the sharpening menu : Amount, Radius, Detail, Masking. Worms start to be present in the middle with the default sharpening, and they are clearly here on the right image. When we cancel the Lightroom sharpening on the left, we get a very unsharp image. All other parameters have the default value of Lightroom. In the Develop Module, the amount of detail is 0, 40 (default value) and 80. Here is a foliage detail at 100% in Lightroom with 3 sharpening parameters. If an image I want to look sharp looks sharp, it’s ok for me… So let’s go further with our Xtrans III raws :-). ![]() So here they were…īefore digging into the subject, I must say I’m not a pixel peeper at all. But I did not have the case this winter with portraits, streetphotography and sports. I knew, one day, it would happen, I would have to investigate on this point. I then started to edit the raw files in Lightroom, and had a schock : I saw worms in my images. I went out several times with my Fuji X-T2 and its 55-200 lens, a tripod and had a great time in the forests of Meudon and Fontainebleau, in France, near Paris. Spring came out of nowhere 3 weeks ago, bringing with it small and tender leaves and flowers. If that’s the case, I don’t think you want distortion correction on when you stack anyway, as any variation in the distortion correction within the stack will make things harder for the stacking program.Worm effect in my leaves during post-processing, what can I do ? Fuji X-T2 Raw editing with Capture One, Luminar, On 1, Lightroom and Iridient X Transformer ? My experience… I think that what is going on here is that the distortion correction is varying with subject distance, and thus the size of the output files. I’m expecting that more folks will be stacking with the GFX now that progressive focus shift is in the firmware. I’m posting this in case other people have had the problem. I will set that back to zero and see if that makes a change. Diffraction correction is in the lens tab, I left it activated when I tested it. I just saw that Distortion Correction is set to the maximum. I suspected lens distortion correction and asked the reader to see if he could turn it off and report what happened. So DNG in itself looks like not to be an issue for Capture One. So it is a Capture One issue. As an extra test, I converted my NEF files to DNG and made the exact same metadata changes as with the files for the GFX (so brand and model was changed to Phase One, IQ250). And the resulting TIFFs are of the exact same size. As a test, I then used Iridient Developer with the exact same DNGs, with the metadata adjusted just like I use with Capture One. This is both with lossless and uncompressed RAF files used as input for Adobe DNG Converter. ![]() I checked this in the Finder of my Mac and the files indeed differ a bit in size. I tried Zerene Stacker and their error message is much clearer: there is a difference in file size between the files. But when I focus stack, I get an error message in Helicon Focus stating that the file size is invalid. And the resulting TIFF files are marvelous. Importing DNGs with changing some metadata fields via ExifTools does the job. I use Capture One as my main RAW converter. Quite some people are using Capture One with their GFX but I have not heard yet of anyone using focus stacking with the TIFFs coming out of Capture One. I wonder whether you can give me a hint how to tackle an issue I ran into. I received the following query from a reader: ![]()
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