Fuji X-Pro1

So after playing with this for weeks, I believe this is probably the maximum that we can get out of the Fuji RAF files until the other developers come up with better understanding of the unique X-Trans CMOS sensor. Now this is still not the most ideal workflow for most people. Pixel Peeping aside, the Fuji X files are fantastic, even in Adobe Lightroom. My goal in this was to get a better understanding of what is going on. I wish I knew how to program, because I'd love to create a simpler way to do this. If there's anyone out there that is interested in taking what I've done and turning into a nice little drag and drop application, I think you'd get a lot of fans.

The Process
1. Using command line DCRAW: dcraw -a -H 0 -o 4 -q 2 -f -m 15 -g 2.4 12.9 -6 -T
2. Convert TIFF file to LAB file in Photoshop
3. Resize image 200% with Bicubic Smoother
4, Select Lightness Channel under channel panel.
5. Select Median filter under Noise in Filter. Select 1 pixel
6. Resize image 50% with Bicubic Sharper (Nearest Neighbour is actually a more subtle effect which I kind of prefer)
7. Save.

SilkyPix and RPP both process very similar files and although I know for certain that RPP uses DCRAW, SilkyPix I believe is a proprietary RAW engine. What I do speculate is the chroma smearing is a result of interpolation errors. Much of it can be suppressed with chroma noise reduction without loss of image quality. However one of the big nagging issues was this 'zipper' aliasing that was happening. After analyzing the files, it seems specifically the red sub-pixels are causing much of this zipper effect, but also part of the interpolation issues. I was able to get rid of a good portion of the chroma smearing by doing 3x3 multi-pass median filtering through DCRAW.....

Full article on following Website:
http://frontallobbings.blogspot.de/2012/11/super-detail-with-fujifilm-x-pro1-raf.html

A while ago I mentioned that Dave had updated his test version of dcraw to include a few new cameras. I had forgotten about this as my camera turned up, but prompted by the ongoing discussion regarding the slowness of raw support from the majors, I went through the hassle of building it on my Mac using MacPorts and tried it out.

To extract a Tiff file from a .RAF and use the camera-decided white balance, I used this command ...

Here are some 100% crops comparing various raw converters. The image I used was a test image from a Contax G 21mm (I was hoping some software could work miracles for the corners). That's the reason for the diagonal orientation and the very poor corner performance. Anyway, I did this for me, but figured others would appreciate it as well. The one that says CF-CR was converted to dng, processed in cornerfix, and converted in Adobe camera raw.