P: (PS, Elements, LR) should support Fuji's new CMOS EXR Sensor

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April 13, 2011
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I would like to see Fuji's newest CMOS-EXR sensors supported in ACR so that Photoshop, Elements and Lightroom are all available to die-hard Adobe users. I've tested the new F550EXR extensively and the new sensor is a winner. The RAW files are amazing for a compact with a 1/2" sensor. See http://kimletkeman.blogspot.com for my articles (31 and counting.)

But my all-Adobe work flow is seriously hampered by Fuji's RAW being forced through its proprietary converter first before I move it to ACR6 and then CS5. It's messy and the results, in my opinion, are inferior to what they would be if I could go directly to ACR6 first and then to CS5 Elements 9 or Lightroom 3. As a long time all Adobe user, I and a lot of others would deeply appreciate support for this wonderful new sensor.

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beaz62

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We really need this!

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Kim LetkemanAuthor

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I'm not sure. The previous generation of the CCD EXR sensors was never supported, despite appearing in one of Fuji's bridge cameras.

The community there has been complaining about that for a long time, so there is a presumption that there is a reason why ACR6 never added that camera. It is quite complex by the way -- the sensors have co-located pixel pairs with like colors, the sensor is split by pixel pairs, with dynamic range extension accomplished by different exposures. Thus, the white and black point sliders would be working with data from each half of the sensor with the blend between the two changing, perhaps using the contrast slider. And there is the high resolution mode where all pixels get the same exposure with no binning. The high SNR mode gets the same exposure but bins the pixels equally. So you see why we have presumed that Adobe simply did not want to bother.

Regardless of the reason, the newer CMOS sensors are looking really good and we are sure hoping that Adobe will take a look.

I have separately asked Fuji to consider writing to a DNG wrapper with a reasonable demosaicing of the sensor into a standard Bayer matrix. I seriously doubt that they would do that, though, since the RAW image would no longer be RAW.