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Yes that's the problem with RPP for me, it is acknowledged by the author as a limitation at present.Cross post from FM on the watercolor effect:
X-Pro 1 tested by Pop Photo - FM Forums
By the way Braeside, I also see the serious artifact in your RPP, especially the lines of dots in the water. The silkypix ones seem to be the best one so far.
David, I should first say that the differences in color is distracting for me; it's hard to try to ignore color variation when that is not the issue. Anyway, I do see some difference between them. Silkypix seems most indistinct, in need of sharpening perhaps. jpg does seem to show more detail than LR. These examples do not make it clear yet to me which I prefer.Tom can you see the differences in my 100% crops a few posts above?
Tom, remember we are pixel peeping here, but to my eyes (in terms of detail) the Silkypix is the best, the camera jpg 2nd best, RPP shows details but has horrid artefacts and LR4.1, shock horror, is smeary. Ignore the colour differences they can be adjusted to taste, but nothing brings back the details from the smears in the green foliage. Sharpening never adds detail, quite the opposite, an unsharpened image always has more detail, sharpening is an optical illusion (though a necessary one for digital files, but a last step).David, I should first say that the differences in color is distracting for me; it's hard to try to ignore color variation when that is not the issue. Anyway, I do see some difference between them. Silkypix seems most indistinct, in need of sharpening perhaps. jpg does seem to show more detail than LR. These examples do not make it clear yet to me which I prefer.
My goodness. This is quite a difference in details. Thanks for sharing these Carl.Here is a screen grab at 100% of the LR4.1 (left) and RPP (right) processed files in LR. I think you can see some difference in fine detail resolution in the grass. I originally posted a cropped RPP image above and corrected that, but cache has not cleared yet.
edit: open image in a new window for pixel peeping
Recently I read something else that their S# dslr files took huge amounts of sharpening. So, this doesn't surprise me. I think I will see if I can get more details.I know this doesn't help but this started off looking worse in RAW than the JPEG but I fiddled a bit and it now looks better. In LR 4.1 we must not be afraid of pushing those sliders! I went to 40 sharpening, 65 detail for this one. It does not look over or artificially sharpened. Who knows what Fuji are doing to get to their JPEGs?
Lee