There are a few scenarios where I have to use an add-on product to help alleviate the worms, if I have an image with a lot of fine detail, or when dealing with foliage. This gives a subtle amount of sharpening that removes the softness from a raw file which is what you want. The setting I use for sharpening is an amount around 100, Radius of 0.8, and Detail of 0. I have found that the detail slider (for Sharpening) in Lightroom is what causes worms, in fact it does this with most cameras and should be watched carefully, it’s just more apparent with the X-Trans. I use Lightroom to process all of my images and am very happy with the results.

It’s somewhat true that Adobe has done a poor job of processing X-trans files, I wish it was better. If you have done any research you have surely come across the discussion of X-trans sensors creating worms when sharpening, especially with Photoshop or Lightroom. Let’s deal with the 500 pound gorilla in the room first worms. Do you really need all those MP’s for something you will post to the web at 1500px? Do you really need them for a 30×42 print that if you step back from and view at a reasonable distance you will never know the difference? Photographers tend to focus more on the gear rather than the meaning behind an image. Megapixels are a ridiculous metric that people continue to chase, it seems there are never enough. You are made to believe that your images are terrible if you’re not shooting with a full-frame camera that has at least 45 megapixels! The reality is that cropped sensors have come a long way and they are incredibly capable these days.

Yes, it has a cropped APS-C sensor and ‘only’ 26.1 megapixels. There are a lot of naysayers when it comes to the Fujifilm X-Series for nature photography.

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