Solved the demosaic issues for x-pro2/x-t2

[adventsam]

I have discovered a little know programme in these circles that I have been stress testing from the developer before going public for a few weeks.

Unfortunately dpr does not have a sense of humour and didn't like the teaser!!

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/58194503

The detail extraction is beyond irident in my opinion.

Interested to hear more, stay tuned, I hope you guys are less cynical than many on dpr

 

[Mike G]

All very well but how do I get hold of it!

 

The DPreview was not a lot of help!

Edited August 20, 2016 by Mike G

[adventsam]

No, it wasn't on purpose, wanted to see how people reacted and could see what I could see, but its definitely a game changer for landscape and where you need more detail. I am trying a beta version of the s/w with a slight tweak at start-up that solves a slight issue with exposure but I think every fuji x-pro2 user will want to try this and the discovery is bang on time for the x-t2 launch. Will come with more samples and the big reveal of the programme very soon.

[erwiurewurwehu]

I have discovered a little know programme in these circles that I have been stress testing from the developer before going public for a few weeks.

Unfortunately dpr does not have a sense of humour and didn't like the teaser!!

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/58194503

The detail extraction is beyond irident in my opinion.

Interested to hear more, stay tuned, I hope you guys are less cynical than many on dpr

You sound like the designers of perpetual motion machines or could fusion reactors. "It works but you can't look inside or try it out." In short it sounds like a scam. 

[adventsam]

Hi,

Not a scam,

If you want to give it a try and communicate through here the software is easyhdr3,

You will need to discover how to use it in detail yourselves, am beta testing a new version, will be available soon as a formal release, which provides some exposure bias at start-up, cool.

If you have LR, use the plug-in, it's easier to see the results back in LR. Couple of points.

Export to easyhdr3 http://www.easyhdr.com/download/ mac or win, use demo initially!

From LR, export originals for manual edit with easyhdr, easy hdr boots and loads the raw file (it finds it auto) 

Easyhdr screen, convert to sRGB, white balance as shot, noise filtering off(no tick) other options recover highlights, tick

Press ok, bottom right

New intermediate screen, ldr enhancement, lens correction, tick auto, noise filtering off or minium (use min for first tests), can be used later to taste, 360degree tick.

press ldr enhancement, lens can't be determined, (more on that later, you can go back and apply some lens profiles for fuji manually but we need more.) press ok

The default profile will come up, you may like it! for first tests though click neutral on the left panel. You can do many things in this window from curves to toning to gamma to sat. For now apply some pre-sharpening for first tests, around 0.1-0.20 or even zero, you will be able to sharpen in LR properly now anyway.

Save as, tiff/jpg, jpg only in demo., prefix the file with edit or whatever, press save and the tiff/jpg options come up.

After you save you will be asked if you want to return to LR,  press yes, the image appears in the catalogue!

You now have a flattish file for playing with further in LR.

You can sharpen further as you would a std bayer file, already the improved image without smear and worms should be apparent, you can add more sharpening, nr to taste, exposure etc etc.

Some issues, if the profile for the lens isn't available you need to use the manual correction in lr, usually 20 or so does it on vignette if its apparent, and sometime the distortion too.

There are so many variables and an extra tab for usm/nr in easy hdr you can explore.

Let me know your thoughts, but I can't look at most raw LR images anymore without the easyhdr demosaic, it is very addictive!

[adventsam]

If you have tried the plug-in and have some issues with exposure for shadow pulls the new version fixes that; these are the 5 stop pulls equivalent, same exposure basically and shutter but dpr uses iso100 for sony/nikon and iso200 for x-pro2, would of been nice to see iso100 too for x-pro2 although it is probably worse, nice to know, will do my own tests now we have proper demosaic!

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/58227583

[johant]

If Easyhdr uses dcraw underneath, would there be a reason why the other dcraw based products (RT and LightZone, I believe) should not be able to implement this?

 

I did a quick comparison with Silkypix V7, and the fine foliage rendered in Easyhdr seems to be slightly better indeed. However, the difference is probably not enough for my maximum print size (30X45cm).

 

Thanks for pointing out, and it's worth experimenting

Edited August 22, 2016 by johant

[adventsam]

I have tried RT, extensively, it's good but it doesn't appear to have the sharpening ability of this, equally lightzone, very peculiar workflow, I had discovered that dcraw was the core to this success and systematically I have been trying everything. I don't know why but the dcraw implementation within easyhdr is something else. Keep trying, you won't be able to look at anything else unless its' been through easyhdr soon