I have the latest PL 8.5 Build 575 installed, but the button DeepPrime XD3 X-Trans BETA is greyed out. I have a Fujifilm XH2-S and am waiting for the new noise reduction generation for a long time. Who can help?
Hi,
The second generation X-Trans sensors are not supported for the moment. This was clearly mentioned in the announcement. Nobody knows when and if this will happen.
Second generation ???, X-Trans Sensors for the X-H2S is a fifth generation sensor.
“At this stage, the fifth generation of X-Trans sensors is not yet supported.”
Typo. Should read last. Sorry.
Why are only older sensors supported and not the latest? 5th generation is over two years old already.
Probably because those using older Fuji cameras have sent requests long before the others 
. And even more probably because the X-Trans V is significantly more complex.
You may not remember, but DXO had to be dragged kicking and screaming over a landscape of broken glass and camel poop before they finally produced ANY X-Trans support.
PhotoLab would not accept a linear DNG file if the metadata showed that the file originated in a camera not supported by DXO software (lookup table). To solve this, I used X-Transformer software to convert from RAF to DNG, and changed the camera manufacturer and camera model in the software settings before executing the conversion.
All of that was because DXO felt that X-Trans shooters were better off not using any DXO software at all, rather than 95% of PhotoLab. I took those DNG files and ran Topaz DeNoise and Topaz Sharpen through PhotoLab – and was happy with the results.
Apparently that was heresy on this forum, at least amongst the former DXO Optics Pro aficionados.
Eddy I understand the desire to have the latest and greatest with the update you’ve paid for along with everyone else, but app devs are often going to back-burner porting new features to the latest Fuji sensor because–and correct me if I’m wrong–this may require as with denoising a substantial code rewrite with a lot of extra testing specific to that sensor, and the user base of that sensor is relatively small. There are bigger fires for them to extinguish that impact more users and few coders at DxO to address them after each major release, so this is a common price in photo apps for using that sensor, as wonderful as it is.
But are you seeing that DP3 is something special? Because I am not. In many comments on this forum, in YouTube demonstration videos, and in my own more limited comparisons, exporting with DP3 is faster than with XD2s, which is mainly useful if your video card is below-recommended by DxO or you are working with large batches of images. And in most cases, the differences in NR and sharpness are very minor, especially if you’re not pixel peeping. Some show it leaving a little more noise behind on some images, especially in shadows, but it’s very minor, and I’m seeing mixed reports about sharpening. What gains in sharpness DP3 can achieve may be because it’s designed to be better at removing chromatic aberration, but this is most likely not a problem with your gear anyway and is easily addressed with other sliders. Right?
DxO is so good at noise removal that we are reaching diminishing returns and incremental improvement with newer NR models and have been for two or three years now. The final frontier is improving the speed of it on export, I think.
As much as you’d like to see it for yourself, I get it, but I bet you’re doing just about as well and quite well overall using XD2s as you would with DP3. It just may take a little more time.