![]() ![]() ![]() So the Photo Mechanic and Iridient Developer work well together and offer, at the end, a better flexibility in file management and a very good RAW processing. For me, in this size, this X100s is the best of its’ class. Cannot understand why people as Lloyd Chambers or Steve Huff continue saying that the XTrans sensor is so-so, the camera does not focus quickly etc. This camera, with the correct RAW developer, gives a superb output quality for it’s size&price. Pixel peepers can look at these 100% crops:Īs usual the results are great. And here the result, OUT OF IRIDIENT DEVELOPER, no further sharpening or processing in Photoshop… So here I should see some benefit as the sun was setting down in front of me… So, simple processing again with ID, turning on the chromatic aberration controls (the RAW file had some CA, but not that much). Improved image quality and processing speed when using lens distortion and chromatic aberration corrections.Greatly improved automatic chromatic aberration correction.I thought this was a good candidate for processing with the new Iridient Developer 2.3 since Brian states that the new version improves: As usual I’m using here X100S inputs, a nice photograph I took, let me see (great Photo Mechanic again: on mouse over for all the photo 1600 f2.8. Cool! Capture One is a great tool for the medium format gigs so I may decide to use it with my Phase One files. This nice feature allows you to decide, for each camera you have, the right RAW App. The very nice thing of Photo Mechanic is that it let you specify your favorite RAW App linked to filename extension: So now it’s the turn of working on the image. IRIDIENT Developer – (Develop in Lightoom) But if you followed the screens you’ll have a coherent color coding across each software. Then define your color coding in Photo Mechanic and do the same in Lightroom – This is Photo MechanicĪs you may see the only issue here is that the shortcut keys works differently (to me much better in Photo Mechanic, is more intuitive to flag the best photo with ‘1’ rather then ‘9’. Go to the Program Preferences and set the IPCT screen as follows: As I mentioned before you may want to use Photo Mechanic together with Lightroom. So you need an updated 10.8 to use photographs coming from newborn cameras. The software is very fast in managing the files but relies, for the RAW, on the underground Apple RAW support. You can tag your photos, add colors and work in cooperation with Lightroom to keep consistency of the color coding you use in both applications. So after your ingestion you’ll have your files in a folder, a “contact sheet”. Photo Mechanis is much more “old fashioned” oriented but, thus, allows you to keep records of your photos with all the attached infos, without needing additional catalogs that may grow up to incredible file size and could be corrupted (not to talk about future proof) Contact Sheet (Library in Lightroom) And all these info you put GOES on the single files you’re working on, not on a “catalog” as in Lightroom. So, just here, if you compare to Lightroom 5, you have a lot of more possibilities. Apply set of keywords while you’re ingesting (IPTC Stationery Pad…).Renaming Photos on the base of your preferences (great use of the “Variables” and “Job” concepts here).Creating Folders automatically on the base of your preferences (I use ).Your Primary and secondary destination folders.From where you’re ingesting, MULTIPLE location at the same time!.When you use it you can specify a lot of interesting things. The first great part of Photo Mechanic is the Ingest Module. It has got may other interesting features so let’s try to dig a bit in detail and check how it works together with Iridient Developer. It has a great keyword management module and some possibilities that you don’t have in Lightroom, such as on-the-flight ingest to multiple hard drives or folders, live ingest and live slide show (great when you shoot and you wish to display while you’re shooting without tethering your camera). Camerabits Photo Mechanic is a software largely used by photography professionals and photojournalist that save, archive, keywording they files. If there is a good alternative for the RAW processing part, is there also a good alternative for the Library Management part? Previous tests on Iridient Developer ( version 2.3 just released) actually confirm that, especially with X-Trans sensors, you can get much better results out of your RAWs. So it’s a no brainer kind of buy.īut if you’re looking for the best image quality out of your RAW then, well, there is something more. ![]() Now, up to December 31st, you can have it with Photoshop for 10 USD a month if you, like me, have a licensed version of a Photoshop >CS3. Gives you a lot of possibilities, manages your library, develops your RAWs. ![]()
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