FujiFilm Official RAW FILE CONVERTER by SILKYPIX

[kyoleung]

I was a Lightroom user until year 2015, switched to Capture One. I am very happy with its color reproduction, editing style.

 

Recently, I tried the RAW FILE CONVERTER EX 2.0 powered by SILKYPIX provided by FujiFilm on its web.

 

I did not complete a formal and thorough comparison, I just load a RAW file into both Capture One and Silkypix, set them both at default settings and certain profile which I think look the best, without touching anything else, eg exposure, details.

 

I am totally surprised by the image quality produced by Silkypix, a lot of micro-contrast and very punchy 3D look.

 

Though the interface is not quite intuitive as Capture One. Also it is simplified version, some important features are missing. I am going to stay on Capture One.

 

I suggest anyone to try it for once! It is free.

[kyoleung]

I have put a RAW file and the two JPGs on dropbox. Feel free to take a look

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kabgt5y6vzckr3p/AADatupC5o5wtKQllaOMX7Fva?dl=0

[johant]

I use SilkyPix v7. Much more advanced than the old v4. But not free of course.

[jlmphotos]

I've used silkypix in the past and it does an AMAZING job!  Capture One?  Downloaded a free trial and played with it, just did not enjoy working in it as much as my LR, or Apple Aperture, Silkypix, or Iridient.  

[Chucktin]

I was looking for an image on my laptop yesterday and opened a RAF folder. Widows 10 immediately started processing the files to icons and I walked off wishing I could find a way to turn that off. Came back after 10 minutes, possibly less, to find all rendered into thumbnails and I could run them thru silky pixels to get 4x6s, wife wanted samples, on a wireless printer (Kodak Verite) pretty damm good for a casual attempt. All the control seem to be there, just in unusual places.

 

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[RadBadTad]

Here's the TIFF created by loading the RAF into Lightroom, and then converting to DNG (TIFF) with X-Transformer from Iridient

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/70bf0zfdp4cnyjs/DSCF0076-Edit.tif?dl=0

 

You've got some haze and what looks like a bit of aberration going on messing with the fine detail of the roofs and buildings, so it's not going to get razor sharp, but still looks very nice. And using X-Transformer as a Lightroom plugin has been way way easier for me than trying to wrangle a whole different program for editing. 

[Adam Woodhouse]

Since Silkypix is endorsed by Fujifilm, I would expect it to do an excellent job with their RAF files.

[milandro]

Aperture, despite not having had any updates for some time, does a great job too. Try combining with sharpening with NIK suite.

[Mike G]

I really liked Aperture, but have now got used to working with Lightroom, which obviously has on going development! I know Lr gets a lot of flack, but I find it OK!

[milandro]

tried and I’ve never missed it, still use Aperture and sharpen with NIK.