Raw files and X-T5?
I've been waiting for the X-T5, and it's looking like everything I dreamed of. :) But I've hesitated in placing an advance order. My experience with the X-S10 (in the days before I'd heard of ON1) was awful, and it was ages before I could process raw files in the same software I used for editing. So how is ON1 with new cameras? Will it takes months before Photo Raw can read X-T5 raw files, or does this happen quite quickly? ON1 is the key - I do all my raw processing in ON1, even if I use stuff like Luminar later.
(Translation: my inner 8yr old wants an X-T5 basically on the day of release. My grown-up self says I should wait until things are settled down. Who's right?)
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It will depend upon how different the X-T5's raw format is from its predecessors.
It can take a while for new cameras to become fully supported. From what we can tell, the company has to figure out for themselves how to decode the files and assemble the data into an RGB image we can see and work with.
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It’s the same 40MP sensor as the X-H2. Which, to be fair, is pretty new itself…
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It's the raw file format that matters. Using the same sensor is a good sign though.
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You could wait for some place like DPReview to post some files for downloading and seeing how Photo RAW handles them.
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You, sir, are a genius and I salute you! :D
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I actually found some RAW files to download. First of all, it takes an age - and I mean an age! - to load in. Having done so, the camera isn't recognised in Develop (as I'd expected, really) though obviously the metadata has it. So you can't change the camera profile. And there's a black line down the right hand side of the photo that would need to be cropped out. Thereafter, everything works as expected, though subsequent load times for editing remain as long. In short, you could manage (with some patience) but it's not ideal. But it looks like a 'nearly there' so hopefully it's not a big job for ON1 to add it.
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My little 8 yr. old jumped in head first thinking that surely this would not be an issue with ON1 (for long). I see that the guy "above" has his/her eye on this issue. Hopefully, close monitoring equals quick solution!! AT my age, it will be my last camera, so as a Fuji fan I was sort of a push over!! Come On - - ON1.
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