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Hello Nik,
last week I rented a Hasselblad. As Phocus is a great raw-converter, but not fast and probably not adapted to M-processors, I was trying my other raw-converters. Iridient was no surprise, it supports pretty much all cameras with few exceptions. Nitro was a surprise! Thank you. Okay, the “import” of Phocus, just to generate 170MB 16 bit TIFs of 200 MB Raws is hard to beat in terms of quality colours, sharpness, altogether files sizes per image and slowness…
So I can use Nitro, but the previews are so blurred that I would have to export first and judge after. Why is Iridient doing a better job here?My guess (and it’s only a guess without looking at the RAWs), is that the embedded JPEG from Hasselblad is very small. Nitro uses the embedded JPEG to accelerate performance. I believe you can right-click on the images and choose Build Thumbnails to improve the quality.
Your guess is right, Nik. Rebuilding thumbnails is improving the quality of the 3FR raw-file. Now I need to know where these previews are stored as I host all other raw-converter databases on an external SSD. I’d like to do the same with Nitro but so far I haven’t found a database related to Nitro. If Nitro needs the internal disk which is limited and very expensive at Apple, I can’t use it in the future to fill it up with JPG previews.
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