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laurab71165152
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October 26, 2019
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.RAF to .DNG removes film simulation color profile

  • October 26, 2019
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I am using Adobe DNG Converter to turn my .RAF files from my Fuji X100F camera into a format that my Lightroom 5 can read. The problem is that I used beautiful film simulation modes with my Fuji, like Acros Black and White, and when I convert the files the resulting .DNG file loses all that information and turns the image to color. Can anyone please help? Thank you.

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    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    October 26, 2019

    Converting the images to DNG has nothing to do with Lightroom 5 displaying them in color. The film simulation modes you are using are in-camera settings that are Fuji-specific and Lightroom cannot read those settings. If you Photographed in JPEG format it would work because it would be part of the JPEG image itself. But when shooting raw any version of Lightroom will ignore in-camera settings. If you had a current version on Lightroom perhaps those simulation modes would be included (I don't know because I don't have a Fuji camera). But with Lightroom 5 you will have to use what ever black and white conversion techniques are available in the program to do the conversion.

    laurab71165152
    laurab71165152Author
    Participant
    October 26, 2019

    Jim,

     

    Thank you so much for your response. It appears that shooting in .JPEG inside the camera was the way to do it for easy importing into LR while keeping the file looking the way it was intended.

     

    I did just find this file converter while on the Fuji Film website, reading manuals, etc.:

    https://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/myfinepix_studio/rfc_3/win/download.html

     

    This is better than Adobe DNG converter. It "processes" raw (.RAF) files into .JPEGS and they come out looking like the way they were shot. This little program also does some basic editing.

     

    I ended up batch processing .RAF into 16 bit uncompressed .JPEGs. The .jpegs are about half the size of the .rafs, but according to this chart, even a 9 MB file can print up to 11 x 14 at 240 DPI:  http://www.picture-this.com/resources/fileSize.php

     

    So it looks like batch processing or setting my camera to shoot in .JPEG. 

     

    Best,

    Laura

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