dko22

Moonrise at Tunnel Beach (NZ)
 

Oh, my first posting in this forum
 
I have something to share with you guys & gals.
 
 
I made a .dcp color profile for Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw where I basically tried to reverse engineer the Classic Chrome simulation to have it available for my X-E1 and X-Pro1.
 
 
To install it, copy the .dcp file/files to:
 
Windows: /User/[your username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/
Mac: /Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/
 
 
It should appear under the Camera Calibration tab as a profile with the name "Camera Classic Chrome (Homebrew)"
 

 
 
 
 
Have fun, and feel free to post some examples
 
 
-> Download the X-E1 Version <-
 
-> Download the X-Pro1 Version <-



Download V5.1 (published 16.02.2016) here:

Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X-E1
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X-Pro1
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X100
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X100S
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X-T1
 
 
 
Edit: links updated (dropbox killed all links to the 'public' folder)

Light&Stripes
 

Exactly that. This was my exact comment when I first heard of this rumor.
 
It makes sense to capitalize on the concept Fuji themselves started, that of the X100.  It also makes sense to use the existing "crop MF" Sony sensor, which has shown impressive low light performance among other things. Or, probably, use a more up to date incarnation of this chip, if available. Of course, using a latest X-Trans treatment on this sensor should furhter enhance its performance. We can also be confident on the lens performance, this being Fuji.
 
A compact MF will be unique but also much more desirable as a second system, for other system users. Nobody would invest in a system with costs running well over 10K for a body plus a modest lens selection. OTOH, if Fuji manages to sell a compact MF at price levels similar to the Leica Q, plus offer a couple of high quality focal length converters (see X100 again), I can see a variety of photographers being interested.
 
The (film) body GA645 format is superb, easily a better option for travel and documentary photography than any high end FF ILC or DSLR. But also having a leaf shutter, makes genres such as fashion and portraiture (using high sync speed flash), still life, etc, highly applicable.
 
Finally, from a more practical and realistic viewpoint, such an investment would be rather low-risk; at the very least I believe it would easily break even, while an all out assault with a system camera would take years to take off and would be very high risk, considering the very competitive market landscape (on high-end cameras) coming in the next few years.

exactly. There has been a lot of crap written about LR and transX, some of it indeed written by me until I really gave it a good test. The essential points for me are:
1. Lightroom is not the best for detail at standard settings compared to the likes of PN or Irident which can make it a bit harder to use.
2. Lightroom can be made to give results close to the above with a bit of work
3. There is no preset that works with every image. It took me a while to realise this. Different radius and amount settings in particular are required as are careful setting of contrast and clarity depending on the image.
 
In conclusion, it is easier to get a decent result with PN in terms of clear detail but then we have the likes of dodgy highlight recovery, suboptimal shadow recovery and fewer film or colour presets. Not to mention all the, by LR6, quite substantial local editing features. I still use PN as a reference but have now switched back to LR as a first default simply becuase it does some things better and does far more overall.
 
David

We can certainly make it part of the workshop in Santa Barbara. The topic has also been covered in forums and blogs, but in the end, folks always want to hand out (or receive) recipes and presets, which I find unsound. I guess some bloggers are even in the business of selling Lightroom presets. Never in my life have I used a LR sharpening preset, and to me, that's the first step towards successful X-trans sharpening. Use those 4 sliders to sharpen the actual image at hand. Heck, even Fuji uses different sharpening parameters in their JPEG engine for Provia and Pro Neg. Hi. It's easy to spot, but I have never seen it mentioned anywhere.