X-T1 foliage renders weird

[oldfashioned1536]

I was shooting a critter in my yard yesterday using the 18-135 at 135mm. When I imported the images in LR, I noticed that the foliage/ grass rendered weird—almost watercolor like. Is this a known issue? My X-T1 has firmware v.4 and LR is the latest version (CC). Is there a way to fix this?

[kolbphoto]

 

I hope I can help.  Here is a very useful article on sharpening xTrans files.

http://petebridgwood.com/wp/2014/10/x-trans-sharpening/

 

Yes it is a known problem, but the new Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6.1 have made some improvements.

 

Good Luck.

[RadBadTad]

Yes, it's a known issue. There are a couple of possible causes, but the most common is that the noise reduction in the raw file smears the fine detail (and can't be turned off in camera or in lightroom). I also have a personal theory regarding lens profiles (since it happens a lot on certain lenses for me, but not at all on others) but it's just a hunch I've never seen repeated anywhere, so don't take it seriously. 

 

If you're using lightroom, you can take the raw file and remove all noise reduction, which should help a bit, but if it's really bothering you, you may want to get a trial of PhotoNinja and see if removing the noise in that program fixes the issue. (It did for me)

 

But yes, it's a known issue, not anything wrong with your equipment, and it's all processing based, so there is a lot of hope in the community that it will be addressed in the future.