Ridiculous Fuji X20 Claims Locked

Bernie Ess wrote:

Ok. People need to look less at other people's test shots and look more for themselves. I have the X-E1 since 3 weeks or so (1500 shots roughly) and have been using the 5d II since 2009, and had the d700 for a year or so.

The Fuji is the best crop camera I have used in many respects, and has the wonderful colour palette I only find in Fuji cameras. However in everyday real life shooting, I have seen noise at ISO1600 that doesn't look like FF supremacy at all, when using DR expanded to 400% strong noise can occur as low as ISO800, and it doesn't look too good.

But FF has more to it than just ISO noise. There is the smoothness and "effortless" look of a file, and this is where the 5dII with a good lens smokes the Fuji.There is just more detail in the 5dII shots, and the detail that is there just looks better. Less processed, with more authority.

Sure, in prints of normal size much of that as described above may or may not show up, but it is there, and overly optimistic views rarely help anybody for longer than a camera honeymoon.

Just by the way, in terms of smoothness of the highlight rolloff and real life DR up to ISO800, the best cameras still around are the Fuji S3pro and S5pro. The X-E1 cannot reach this DR, specially in the highlights.

Bernie

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