The Fuji IS/S5 Pro is pretty noisy at higher ISOs, it’s best to keep it at ISO 100-200 if possible. If you shoot RAW you can make use of the extended DR, but bear in mind the Fuji’s extra DR is in the highlights, not the shadows. So you can greatly overexpose an image then pull back the highlights in raw conversion to recover the blown out detail. If you’ve got plenty of light then that works well, but if shooting handheld then you need to make sure your shutter speed doesn’t drop too low or you’ll get blur from camera shake. Over-exposing and pulling back details helps in minimizing noise though.

I had a quick look for the Lightroom channel swap, and found this post: Red/Blue Swap in Lightroom for Infrared Photography. I’m not sure if that’s the exact one you’re using, but it uses a custom camera profile to get round Lightroom’s lack of channel mixer support, quite a clever idea. I’ll have to try and take a look at that sometime as I guess it should be possible to create similar profiles for different channel swaps when using other colour filters.

Cheers

Dave

Don’t woory, I haven’t had much time on this matter lately too.

With EXIFTool now I’m able to change the files to be interpreted as S5 Pro files and that helped me get the files into a bunch of different applications.

I downloaded some LR presets that emulate the blue and red swap, they are available online somewhere.

Today I was able to shoot new pictures with the camera. Haven’t been able to process them yet, but my first images were mostly on ISO 1600 and 100% DR. Now I’m trying ISO 400, 400% DR, I’m being much more careful with focusing and checking most of my pictures. I’m using a R2 filter.

My first impressions of the images were not sharp, strange kind of noise even at low ISO settings.

Hi Guilherme

Apologies for the rather delayed reply. I sold my IS Pro some time ago, and now use a converted Fuji X-M1 instead. I never had a chance to try the Fuji Hyper Utility – it seemed a bit too much trouble to have to set up a virtual machine with an old copy of Windows just to use it. Plus the cost was off-putting, especially when ACR produced results I was happy with.

I never noticed any problems with my ACR conversions of the images. By a mess, do you mean not sharp, or colour artifacts, or something else?

Dave

How are you?
I got a IS Pro recently.
Read all your posts about the IS Pro. Thanks a lot!

I tired the HyperUtility on an old G5 and on a Macmini running 10.6.8, very slow and hard to understand how to get somewhere with it. Nice structure. Then I tried LR 5.7.1 which was faster, easier, but at pixel level was a mess.

I see I use ACR, is this how you still do it?