C1 or LR or both (my style heavily relies on my LR profiles)

[Crow]

I recently got a fujifilm x-t30 II and I came to understand that LR is just not that good for processing RAW fuji photos, it makes it blurry and not as sharp. I can’t just flat out switch to C1 because I heavily rely on my presets.

I tried converting them, I tried recreating them but to no avail, they look nothing alike in C1. Do I sacrifice image quality for style or do I process my RAW photos in C1 and then put the profiles on the now png file in LR? Or is there a better solution? 

[N.Rio]

Hi, 

I did some experimenting with this (I too don't want to abandon LR) and found that this LR recipe reproduce the perceived sharpness  in C1 almost exacly for a range of motifs in raw files from X-E4: 

Enhance: 
- Denoise' 40 
- Raw Details

Preset: 

Basic: 
- Contrast +10
- Presence
    - Texture +10
    - Clarity +10
    - Dehaze +10 

Detail: 
- Sharpening 110
- Radius 1
- Detail 10
- Masking 25

However, C1 (and  DXO Pure Raw) renders e.g. blue sky differently (lighter than LR), and needs to be dealth with separately to achieve the C1 look. 

 

Edited January 6, 2024 by N.Rio

[BobJ]

This problem is much exaggerated and is difficult to see unless you are pixel peeping. However, if you want the ultimate quality, use X Transformer to do the initial conversion and then import the resulting dng into Lightroom. X Transformer is cheap.

[N.Rio]

For the RAF files from the X-Trans CMOS 4 sensor, the problem is very visible, no pixel peeping needed.