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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: rollsman44 on August 24, 2014, 03:32:10 pm

Title: Any Help using Focus Software
Post by: rollsman44 on August 24, 2014, 03:32:10 pm

  Has anyone used Phocus for Post proc.  I am new to Phocus and usually use LR4  I am trying to get the most out of Phocus for IQ
  I am using Hasselblad H3D2-31 camera.  Thank you

Title: Re: Any Help using Focus Software
Post by: jannatul18 on August 29, 2014, 05:24:56 am

I have not use Phocus yet but I do hear about this from one of my friend. Why dont you use photoshop for your post production work?

Title: Re: Any Help using Focus Software
Post by: BobShaw on September 18, 2014, 07:31:46 am

I use Phocus with a H3DII-31. Really all you need it for is to convert the 3FR compressed raw files to uncompressed FFF raw. Then you just import them to Lightroom or Aperture. If you want to do adjustments in Phocus then you export as a TIFF16.

Title: Re: Any Help using Focus Software
Post by: rollsman44 on November 11, 2014, 09:40:04 pm

Thank you.  I will try that. What exactly is the difference in the Tiff's  Tiff16 etc?   Thanks

Title: Re: Any Help using Focus Software
Post by: BobShaw on November 12, 2014, 06:09:07 pm

TIFF16 just means it is exported as a 16 bit as opposed to an 8 bit TIFF or TIF. TIF is just Tagged Information File,  a standard image file format.
16 bit is 16 bits per colour channel so there are millions of shades per colour. 8 bit is 8 bits per colour channel so there are only 256 shades per colour like a JPEG file.