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This yielded excellent image quality and processing results from Fujifilm X Series cameras while maintaining our lightning-fast decoding speed.

OurВ user feedback has been tremendous in helping our engineers solve both of these issues. Here is the overview of the image, the area is magnified below for comparison we show. The hardness of these edges must adapt to the strength of detail in the photo so they are strong on hard edges but soft in areas that are out of focus. These are often caused by internal masks used in rawВ processors to define different tonal ranges. Here are the processing results in that area using ON1 Photo 2017.0.2 and two other raw processors.ДЄnother processing issue we saw was the odd edges and artifacts in the bokeh, or out of focus regions in certain photos. Here is the overview of the image, the area in red is magnified below for comparison we show below. You can read more about JoelвЂ™s thoughts on Fujifilm X-Trans processing in his recent blog post. Here is a great example of this from Joel Wolfson, a respected photographer and writer.

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Luckily for us we already knew the causes and how to properly solve the problem. Years agoВ our Genuine Fractals users would get the same smeared look when upsizing their images. ThisВ issue was very familiar to us, but in a somewhat different use case. A common refrain we heard was other raw processors often created a smeared or painterly look in areas of texture like grass, bark and rock. When we first started this work we listened to our Fuji users and reviewed the processing results other tools in the market produced. For most cameras thereВ has been years of research to optimize these algorithms for speed, quality and reduced errors (noise).В These approaches donвЂ™t translate directly to the X-Trans layout which forced our engineers to develop a new and unique algorithm for Fujifilm X Series cameras.

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Here is what that looks like.ДЇrom a software developers prospective, the way you interpolate, or debayer the rawВ data from these cameras is quite different from the algorithms we use for most other cameras. They also claim this layout provides for better color reproduction with less color noise. Fujifilm claims this filter layout reduces moire patterns naturally so you donвЂ™t need an anti-aliasing filter which can soften details in your photos. These sensors use a unique color filter pattern compared the the traditional Bayer pattern that most cameras use.

My actual workaround to work with PI and my Fuji RAF files is to convert the RAF images with Iridient X Transformer (Iridient ist one of the best RAW converter for Fuji files - far better then ACR) from RAF to DNG and then import in PI.Some of you out there shoot with FujifilmВ® X series cameras that use the X-TransВ® CMOS sensor. I've just started to deep dive in this wonderful piece of software called Pixinsight and I'm fascinated about the power of it. So, I'm no expert or software engineer but maybe there is an important information for you. And it seems, that dcraw can decoding (uncompressed) RAF files from the 24MP sensor. Obviously there are products like Darktable and RawTherapee who also uses dcraw as fundamental for decoding RAW images. But I found on the web a few informations about dcraw and x Trans for the 24 MP sensor.

And I don't have a file from the X Pro2 in uncompressed format. In my opinion the problem causes in the fact, that the RAF file from the X-Pro2 was lossless compressed. And as an huge Fuji fanboy I'm also sure, that the cam was loaded with the latest firmware. Yes, I'm sure that the file is from my X-Pro2. Are you sure this file has been acquired with an X-Pro2 camera? Have you updated the camera's firmware (since this would explain the incompatibility)? RAF files listed on the following page:Д¬an be loaded and decoded without problems. There is nothing I can do to fix this, besides trying to contact Dave Coffin to get information on the next release of dcraw.ДЄs for the X-Pro2 image leading to the same crash, this is really weird, since dcraw, and hence our DSLR_RAW module, support this camera. Unfortunately, dcraw crashes with a segmentation fault when feeded with one of these raw files (more specifically, the read_shorts() routine in dcraw.c attempts to access an invalid memory address). The problem is that dcraw still does not support them, and our DSLR_RAW module uses dcraw as its back-end to support digital camera raw formats. I'm afraid PixInsight currently does not support the Fuji X-T2 and X-T20 cameras.

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