This was exciting news for me as I found it galling that despite much improvement over the last couple of years Lightroom still didn’t seem to render Fuji raw files as well as Iridient did. Last year I read rumors that Iridient were working on “something for Windows”. As a keen amateur photographer (ie – not somebody who makes a lot of money out of photography) I was not going to switch back to using Macs again just to be able to run Iridient Developer, no matter how much better it might make my results.
#Sony a350 vs canon 550d for mac os#
The software was only available for Mac OS and I switched back from Mac OS to Windows several years ago now. Impressed as I was by the results I was seeing being obtained using Iridient Developer it was sadly not for me. This seemed all the more remarkable as Iridient Digital is a “small” company, indeed to the best of my knowledge a “one-man band”. Iridient seemed to create cleaner, clearer, sharper renderings of the same image. I have often been astonished by the apparent difference in the rendering of Fuji raw files between Adobe Lightroom and Iridient Developer. Back then I was a Canon shooter but for the last several years I’ve been shooting more and more Fuji to the point where as I write I’ve not shot using my Canon gear for over a year.Īs a Fuji shooter I have been aware of the raw processing software “Iridient Developer” for quite some time. I use Adobe Lightroom as my raw processing software of choice and I have done so since it was first released. Capture one was my go-to software for Fuji RAWs and.holy toledo - I can't find any thing lacking in the iridient version - in fact i thought the iridient version looked a bit sharper and sure as hell got better white balanced colors - i've got a new favourite software now - it's Iridient.
I tested Iridient's X-Transformer side by side by Capture One.
Iridient X-Transformer is a cross platform, macOS and Windows, Fujifilm RAF to DNG conversion utility that shares much of its high quality RAW processing pipeline with Iridient Developer.