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>Adobe is responsible for that stuff, not my camera. I grew up on analog photography, and one of things I really appreciate about recent Fujifilm cameras is th

by AlanYx 5y ago

>Adobe is responsible for that stuff, not my camera. I grew up on analog photography, and one of things I really appreciate about recent Fujifilm cameras is that you don't necessarily need to use Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. There's an "X Raw Studio" app, which lets you develop RAWs in-camera through a USB tether to your computer. It has a very, very limited set of RAW development choices, but for me it brings back a little bit of the feel of working in a darkroom. Limited options. I rarely use actual postprocessing software these days.

chucksta 5y ago
I don't see how tethering your camera to your computer is much different then popping out a card and loading any 1st or 3rd party software? Or even just shooting in some processed format?
- Chilko 5y ago
  Fujifilm cameras have an image processing chip that is used for film simulations, which this computer software also uses. Essentially it's in-camera editing controlled through a PC.
  - astrange 5y ago
    That's probably a sign of the famous Japanese inability to write software more than anything. Sony cameras come with a free version of Capture One that recreates the official picture styles, though that's not that interesting.
- AlanYx 5y ago
  There is no technical difference. There's no real technical argument for it -- the same thing could easily be done by software. It's more about the gestalt of photography and being limited to a small number of options done "in camera". Most of what Fujifilm has been doing in recent years has been trying to carve out a niche closer to old-style photography (the XPro3's removal of the back screen in the default configuration, for example, so that chimping becomes difficult). When you pull files into Lightroom/Camera Raw/Capture One, there is tons of flexibility, but there's also a ton of sliders and it eventually ends up feeling onerous and not fun in the long term for me. (If I was doing professional photography it would be different of course.) I think that's a big part of what makes people prefer their phones.

by AlanYx 5y ago

chucksta 5y ago

I don't see how tethering your camera to your computer is much different then popping out a card and loading any 1st or 3rd party software? Or even just shooting in some processed format?

Chilko 5y ago
Fujifilm cameras have an image processing chip that is used for film simulations, which this computer software also uses. Essentially it's in-camera editing controlled through a PC.
- astrange 5y ago
  That's probably a sign of the famous Japanese inability to write software more than anything. Sony cameras come with a free version of Capture One that recreates the official picture styles, though that's not that interesting.
AlanYx 5y ago
There is no technical difference. There's no real technical argument for it -- the same thing could easily be done by software. It's more about the gestalt of photography and being limited to a small number of options done "in camera". Most of what Fujifilm has been doing in recent years has been trying to carve out a niche closer to old-style photography (the XPro3's removal of the back screen in the default configuration, for example, so that chimping becomes difficult). When you pull files into Lightroom/Camera Raw/Capture One, there is tons of flexibility, but there's also a ton of sliders and it eventually ends up feeling onerous and not fun in the long term for me. (If I was doing professional photography it would be different of course.) I think that's a big part of what makes people prefer their phones.