I wrote a post back in March about me getting the Fujifilm X100VI and about trying out shooting JPEG as a change. Well, I’ve tried that and it’s not for me.
While I don’t really enjoy post-processing photos that much, I still want to give my photos “my touch“ (whatever that is) with the different types of presets I have developed in Lightroom and that I usually always use. I tried shooting both JPEG’s and also some RAW, both using the in-camera Fujifilm film simulations and use them on RAW files in Fujifilm’s X RAW Studio, but they don’t do it for me. I don’t know, I’ve seen other photographers using them with some really nice results, but it doesn’t work for me.
One of the, or maybe it was the actual main reason for doing the whole “JPEG shooting thing“, was that my old iMac (and also this old MacBook Pro that I’m typing this on while in my hotel room in Shanghai) could not read the RAW files from my new Fujifilm X100VI because I couldn’t update Mac OSX to one that Lightroom/Camera RAW needed. I’d say that’s the only downside of owning an Apple computer so far. The M4 MAX Mac Studio that I’ve bought now is quite amazing, and I’m sure it will keep being amazing for years to come until it also will be too old. But that’s a problem for another time…
Anyways, I’m back to shooting all RAW and doing a little post-processing in Lightroom and while it’s not my favourite thing to spend time on, I still prefer the results that I get from doing that.