What it does is de-mosaic the Fuji raw file and store it as a dng (Digital Negative) file. Iridient X-Transformer isn’t a full-blown raw processing package. I had been checking the Iridient Digital web site for any further news of a Windows release for several months and then just as it seemed like nothing was ever going to happen I seem to have missed the notification by about a week. 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.
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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. Click to see full size (X-Pro2, Fujinon 10-24mm f4 – yes, I know – not a “portrait lens”!)
1:1 crops : default Lightroom import on the left, same file processed with Iridient X-Transformer to the right.