elliotpaulstern

Same here. In the post about PN I tried to get LR on par with ID - without success.

My experience is aligned with yours. This is why I suggested to Rico to work on an e-book to share his X-pretise with the struggling masses.

I was only this morning comparing demosaicing differences between LR and Irident, trying all sorts of parameters in LR for the image at hand (a landscape with finely detailed grass, foliage and berries, I don't actually find this to be much of an issue oersonally on portraits or urban cityscapes, etc.). No such fiddling required in Irident as it looked better straight away, and got even sharper with some small tweaks. No matter what I try, including 100% detail method, or any other I've come across, I still can't get over the slight smudging or waxiness in certain types of texture in LR. I now have to try and incorporate Irident, or C1 into my Lightroom workflow somehow (because I prefer LR in practically every other way and my whole catalogue resides there). Now that really is wearisome.