Should I be considering using LR for raw conversion??

[kuau]

I am getting up to speed with my H3D39 and was wondering if LR is a good raw converter for my .3fr files or should I stick with Phocus

Thanks
Steven

 

[fotografz]

I am getting up to speed with my H3D39 and was wondering if LR is a good raw converter for my .3fr files or should I stick with Phocus

Thanks
Steven

Depends on how proficient you are with LR, what you are shooting and how much.
For critical commercial work I tend to favor Phocus because the DAC corrections get the most out of the lenses.

When shooting a high volume of images like at a wedding, I lean toward LR ... I have more image adjustment tools there, can open any file into PS for further work, application of Nik Define 2, and save it back to the LR Library. Plus, I have a ton of User Presets loaded into LR. IMO, LR is the fastest Image Processing program out there and the quality is getting better with every new version.

I often shoot with more than the Hasselblad, so I drop all images into one folder and sort by time shot to keep them all in sequence for story telling.

I can still go back and process specific images in Phocus when needed. It produces the highest IQ from the H cameras.

-Marc

 

[DJPixelMan]

Whilst I would like to use LR for all of my image processing, I do find that the interpretation of the FR3 files lacks something (LR will open the FR3 file without converting it to FFF), and I thus always prefer to use Phocus. Try it yourself, but as I said, I prefer the Phocus FFF conversion.