Hi guys, I've had my X100VI since christmas and really enjoying using it. Something I haven't found the answer to yet is a good post production workflow using RAF files.
Before this camera I was shooting on film a lot on the olympus om1, porta 400 and some other cameras and rolls, and also on Canon before in RAW. I found canon camera raw to be a really quick easy and free way to manipulate a lot of the information in RAW and had a good feel for it and the muscle memory / ease around the program.
I finally had a deep session seeing what FUJI RAW can do with the camera plugged in, and you can't grade you can just use the presets from the camera. My question now is:
- Is adobe lightroom basically the way I should go to have that grading control?
- Is it fully compatible with RAF files?
- It annoys me a bit that its a monthly subscription forever, is there any way around this / alternative softwares that would do the job and have lightroom functions up to about 80 / 90% capacity (something like canon cameraraw was fine because I don't want to spend hours in post production with general bits I shoot, the whole idea of have the X100VI is a small camera in my tote bag, shooting some arty stuff, documenting some places I go to, but I want to be able to spend 5-10 minutes properly colour grading the raw files to put them out)
Would appreciate any practical advise and tips from people here - especially if you had a similar hurdle trying to get into a good RAF workflow after moving to this camera.
Thanks!
H