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Lightroom: Fujifilm X-trans cameras and halo around blue areas
Objects photographed against the sky or other blue coloured areas get a "halo" when images from Fujifilm X-trans cameras are developed in Lightroom.
My camera is a Fujifilm X-T1. Before this, I owned the X-E series cameras and noticed the same thing with them. Today I installed the latest version of Lightroom (5.4) and the problem is still there.
Lightroom doesn't handle blue coloured areas well. Take a look at the blue and red traffic signs. You may need to click the images to view them full size (they are 100 % crops).
Compare this with the same raw file developed in Capture One:
Things photographed against a blue sky get a soft "halo":
Looking at the red channel only shows this clearly
For comparison, the same image in Capture One

My camera is a Fujifilm X-T1. Before this, I owned the X-E series cameras and noticed the same thing with them. Today I installed the latest version of Lightroom (5.4) and the problem is still there.
Lightroom doesn't handle blue coloured areas well. Take a look at the blue and red traffic signs. You may need to click the images to view them full size (they are 100 % crops).
Compare this with the same raw file developed in Capture One:
Things photographed against a blue sky get a soft "halo":
Looking at the red channel only shows this clearly
For comparison, the same image in Capture One
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Rikk
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kelly_castro
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7 years ago
The issue you have described is a known limitation of Adobe's current X-Trans demosaic method. Our current method has the benefit that it avoids many types of color speckle artifacts, but the tradeoff is that this type of color bleeding may occur across some colored and light/dark edges. We hope to improve this support in a future release.
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hakan_lindgren
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"We hope to improve this support in a future release."
I'm really looking forward to this - and I know many other Fuji photographers do as well. I posted a thread about this at the fujix-forum.com discussion site and was overwhelmed with the response.
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david_oettinger
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--Is using Capture One your solution? I have only fairly recently started using LR & it would bother me to dump it & purchase another program, but I don't want to invest a lot of time working around problems LR has with the X-Trans.... Photo Ninja?
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hakan_lindgren
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I don't have a solution. I don't do a lot of landscape photography, so it's not a huge problem for me, but I would want to se this problem solved. I'm always wondering when this artifact will show up in my images.
I still use Lightroom, because apart from this, it does a lot of things very well: the highlight and shadow recovery are the best I've used, the correction of purple fringing is good, I like the way it renders the noise in high-ISO images - plus it's the fastest of all raw developers I have tried. I've tried Photo Ninja, which is excellent at sharpness, but purple fringing around highlights gets really ugly and I don't like the way the noise looks in high-ISO images. And it's hopelessly slow (on my computer at least). Lightroom seems to be the best all-round compromise.
I've found that setting colour noise reduction to max in Lightroom might make these bright halos around leaves etc. disappear somewhat. It's worth noting that the raw developer that comes with the camera, Silkypix, has the same problem.
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hakan_lindgren
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hakan_lindgren
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What's important to me is the rendering of the blue/red areas of the traffic sign (you need to click the images to see them at 100 %). LR 6.1 is a clear improvement.
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rupert_brun
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