P: support X-Trans properly

Just want to share this comparison between a normal sensor and an x-trans sensor. Shot with the same lens and basically the same settings (somehow I changed the shutter speed when). The artifacts and washed out colors in the X-T2 file are not pretty. 


Feel free to download these if you wanna see what they look like in LR yourself 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TaouEUmnoIOwshGcO9ZXgb8aTrHeP_7y/view?usp=sharing,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zye5uuCE3vfLnIgOumCTyoN-DBgz8l_D/view?usp=sharing

Months later, it's still the same. Every detail area of an image coming from that sensor is full of swirls and worms that get even more visible if any sharpening is applied, and considerably more on higher ISO images. Ridiculous. None of the other converters get that exactly right either. I've seen the worms even with in-camera RAW conversion. I'd take a regular Bayer sensor over this x-trans junk any time, but I do like the Fuji camera and lenses overall, but it's much worse in Lightroom than anything else I've tried.

I've lost all hope that Adobe is going to address the issue.  Their overall Fuji processing (especially the sharpening) just sucks when compared to other options out there.  The worst part is that I can't use Iridient on my custom PC (mac only), so if I have a really important photo, then I have to transfer it to my Macbook to process properly.

So we are now into the second year of this post - and still NO REPLY from Adobe - what's the point of an Adobe Community if it's one-sided.

For any new visitors, it's stiull a huge problem, Adobe have still done nothing about it.

Here's a new one showing the FREE developer RAW Tharapee versus the latest Lightroom by a company valued at $4.32 billion.

Hey there!

Time to come back to this thread and give my 2 cents again.

I think there happened something with the latest LR Version, 6.4.

I took my original Image, stated earlier in this post. Processed it agin in Capture One 9 and Lightroom and compared again.

LR ist still lacking the last bit of micro contrast, but i can see a massive improvement. the screenshots are made with 200% of zoom, because i have an iMac 5K and at 100% i can not see any difference!

Another BIG plus for Fuji X-Trans shooters is, that LR is the only one who mimics exactly the film simulations! No other company does it that good.

I think, with the introduction of the latest cameras of fujifilm, with a new sensor in the X-Pro 2, we can observe some movement right now...

please check the images below!

Just adding my 12,09 EUR/month: I'm using LR CC 2015.2.1 and the problem of the "water color effect" is still there.

Random screenshot at 100%:

Hope this gets solved soon because I jumped into the Fuji-system without knowing the Adobe-demosaicing problem. :-(

Sorry for my bad english...but here's my experience with XTrans on LR :

There seem's to be a real problem with XTrans demosaic operations. Not only in LR.

I had the strange artefacts you talk about on many of my pictures.

I use pictures for printing (mainly landscapes for tourist offices and tourism businesses).

When i print A2 size i see them very well.

These artefacts appear also in other softwares (C1, Aperture) but a bit less pronounced than in LR.

Even when you use nearly no sharpening the artefacts appear in some zones of the images.

The last months of my X-T1 usage i took allways three or four images of the same subject...hoping one would not present these strange effects. Sometimes it has worked (i can't explain why...maybe some light rays where different from one image to another ???).

Another problem is the very very slow operation on XTrans images.

Amazing to see how fast LR is when working on 36 MP Nikon images compared to the 16MP Fuji ones.

(working on a MacBook Retina...the fuji image processing drains my battery down very fast...processor is allways working hard...the fan is allways running)

After one and a half year i finally gave up. To much for me.

I sold the X-T1 and bought another APSC camera with a "classic" sensor (classic = not XTrans) : all the problems are gone

Just my modest opinion on all this

I took some fall foliage photos today with the XT1. The LR CC raw conversion is useless. The leaves are all muddy giving a blurred appearance. I used Silky to confirm they are sharp, and they are.  I can upload if needed, but I suspect Adobe has more than enough examples.

After five pages all I want to know is, if I'm on a PC, what program should I be using with a Fuji X-30 RAW file?

‌Great to hear Adobe is finally addressing this issue. I manage a Facebook group of Fuji X shooters and this is one of the most discussed topics. I stopped shooting landscapes with my X-T1 for this very reason. I love Fuji and once they fix this issue it will be the platform for me!  I currently shoot Oly EM1, but would love to swap back!