Ridiculous Fuji X20 Claims Locked

Timur Born wrote:

I used the X10's measurement for comparison, which measured slightly better than the X-S1 even while using the same sensor. Comparing "Print/8 MP" resolution the vertical difference is about 2 dB SNR between X10 vs. RX100 at low ISO and less than 2 dB at high ISO. Horizontally the difference is closer to 2/3 EV than to 1 EV, at some points maybe in between.

This is when using the EXR sensor at 12 MP and then comparing both sensors after resizing down to 8 M. At full resolution "per-pixel/screen" SNR are virtually the same according to DXO, so Fuji's claim is not far off from DXO results at all. Their marketing does just not comply to your quality standard of comparing averaged/sized down SNR measurements.

And had the Sony output been sized down to 6 MP and the EXR sensor been used in 6 MP EXR mode you would have seen closer "print" results as well, likely the EXR sensor would come out somewhat better (I doubt that the Sony can gain another 2/3 - 1.0 EV by sizing down another 2 MP, but don't know for sure either).

All that being said, I am far from being a Fuji fanboy, to the contrary.