What's your Sigma Foveon workflow?

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I’ve been shooting Sigmas for many, many years. I currently own an original raw-only SD9 DSLR.

For serious work:

Open the X3F in Sigma’s proprietary SPP 3.5.2. Do minimal editing to fix mistakes e.g. exposure, WB.

Export as 16-bit TIFF, ProPhoto to the GIMP or to RawTherapee for sophisticated editing. Save the output, dump the TIFF.

For quick work e.g. culling, illustration, open in FastStone Viewer, edit as required, save as JPEG 4:2:0 (2x2) at max quality.

For analytical work, open in RawDigger.

RawDigger can open but not edit Quattro X3F and save as TIFF: RGB, raw composite or any individual layer.

HTH

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