There's also another thing to consider, the Fuji's raw development. If you want to extract all the juice from the X-Trans sensor array please forget Lightroom. I'm using Fujis since they were launched and believe me Adobe's raw engine for Fuji really sucks, even in plain 2019. But thanks God we have some good options for this now, for example:
Best Fuji X-Trans raw developers:
- Silkypix Pro versions 8 and up. This thing can deliver the best results IF you manage it right, but it's slow like continental drift.
- Iridient Developer: Excellent, but need caution when using the sharpen algorithms, it's prone to strange artifacts. Horrendous interface, but works well.
- Capture One for Fuji. Works well. Too bad that the free version is very crippled and the paid one extremely expensive for what it is.
- Luminar 2018: This one works well and it's my first row in battle. Fast and affordable. When things goes bad I switch to Silkypix and take a coffee.
- RawTherapee: The most comprehensive raw converter ever, but extremely complicated and can deliver absolutely stunning results.
Note that all the abobe mentioned software can be used with Pentax .PEF raw files, but for this task my option is still DxO PhotoLab.
Last edited by AntonioS; 05-04-2019 at 07:35 AM.