[Leica] Fuji XE-1

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Early on, practically all of us who were shooting Fuji X-Pro 1 systems
(Howard, Steve, Gerry, B.D., myself) were shooting in JPG fine because the
output from the Adobe Camera Raw converter tended to smear the colours, and
Silkypix was/is just unusable. Adobe, however, have got better and better,
and Gerry alerted me a few months ago about an Camera Raw update that had
solved the problem, and I see no problems at all nowadays in shooting RAW
and processing in Lightroom. The whole problem of the X series and RAW
converters is just a myth as of today. I only shoot RAW nowadays...

I can understand why one would want to shoot only in JPG fine, though, it
simplifies photography a lot, that is, of course, if you are confident
enough of your ability, as well. (-:

It is hardly surprising that a person who has distilled his likes and
dislikes to the extent that Jim Hughes has, and with his experience, would
choose the simpler option.

Sometimes I feel RAW is for us obsessive masochists! (-:

Cheers
Jayanand


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> Jim Hughes is the former editor of Camera 35, from which I learned an
> awful lot of what I know.  And also Camera Arts. So I suspect he knows what
> he's doing.
>
> Here's what I find really interesting.  This guy edited two seminal photo
> magazines and wrote books on Gene Smith and Earnst Haas. He edited the
> writing of master craftsmen like David Vestal. So what was his film RF gear
> before he went digital? Not a Leica. He prefers a Canon 7 and LTM Canon
> lenses. And he still wants to use those lenses on a modern mirrorless
> camera.  He says they see like he sees. Food for thought.
>
> I'm a firm believer in RAW myself. But many users of Olympus E-series
> cameras who have found that the Olympus JPGs are so good that they can't do
> any better processing the RAWs. This of course assumes that they've gotten
> all the umpteen parameters set just right before they take the shot.
>
> There was not a lot of RAW support for the Fuji X-E1 and X-Pro1 when they
> came out, so some people got used to shooting JPG. It was that or use
> SilkyPix.  :-)
>
> --Peter
>
>
>
> > I have the XE-1 on my list, and also noted that.  Seems strange that he
> > would settle for an in-camera jpg conversion.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=c**ox.net <http://cox.net> at
> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Bob
> > Adler
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:56 PM
> > To: Leica Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji XE-1
> >
> > Except he doesn't shoot raw!
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Jun 4, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Nice review:
> > >
> > >
> > http://theonlinephotographer.**typepad.com/the_online_**
> photographer/2013/06/fuji-x-**e1-the-keeper.html<http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/06/fuji-x-e1-the-keeper.html>
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