Rachotilko

You're disrgarding the sensor progress. The first generation of M43 can't be compared with OM-D or GH2, G5, GH3. They surely beat some APS-C sensors (Canon). Can you provide some more technical...

No Kim, it's not double. EFL is useless metric IMHO (good for marketing only), it's FL that counts. FL of X-S1 is 160mm, so it's not double from max FL of 14-140. Realistically, X-S1 is not 12MP...

28-300 has almost twice the the reach of X-S1 DSLR lenses are by design (flange distance) bigger than their compact of mirrorless counterparts.

Not at tele end ! OK, here's another candidate , 14-140 superzoom. Let's compare that one to X-S1: at tele end, same aperture at wide end, you don't need to crop => better IQ => you can compensate...

In think long elaborate you omitted several important points: M43 of 2013 is very different from M43 of 2009. The quality sensors improved substantially. Even the zooms quality is somewhat...

In fact, no ! X-S1 has lens with FL 7-158mm (24-624 is ELF, which is quite useless metric IMHO). Here you can compare  the size of X-S1 with Panasonic G5 + 40-150. Long live GMIC and its...

I would like to inform you, that even with single non superzoom lens (such as 18-105) you'll get close to Fuji HS's range. Indeed, Fuji HS cameras (pre HS50) had FL range 4.2-126 mm. The trick is...

Agree with you completely, especially given the fact that with bridge cam you have to downsample a lot to achieve quality imagery. My in my experience you can't hope for lot more than 4MP of...

In fact, review mentioned the that there is an option for expanding DR. However - due to the lack of EXR- the conventional method of underexposing & tonecurve manipulation is used. This method...

@MarkInSF

In my understanding X20 resolves more that X10 not because of X-Trans sensor, but because of getting rid of EXR. X20 resolving power is roughly equal to bayer sensors.

X-Trans provides...

Your reasoning is based on assumption that image-processing (including NR) parameters are determined solely from user-accessible controls. My reasoning is based on assumption, that the real working...

You seem to imply that "X10 lacks resolution" from two premises: DPR's studio (Adobe) RAW conversion of X10 shot is blurry your (Silkypix) RAW conversion of X10 shot lacks resolution Regarding...

They were the first thing I noticed after I've seen the first samples from X20. Simply put: they are artifacts of a crappy noise reduction algorithm. I just don't understand why Fuji equipped quite...

Re: Jpeg engine regress ...

I guess the situation might be salvageable by FW update. There are three problems wrt noise reduction:

- chroma denoising induces excessive chroma (esp. red) bleeding....

Re: Jpeg engine regress ...

I guess the situation might be salvageable by FW update. These are the problems wrt noise reduction:

- chroma denoising induces excessive chroma (esp. red) bleeding....

X20 is an exemplary case of manufacturer listening too carefully to their customers. X10 was often criticised for its limited resolving power, and since (in popular mind) Fuji owned the means to...

The popular belief says images from old, low MP digicams, provided superior IQ compared to current, high MP sensors.

It just not true ! Images from HX20 downsampled to 6MP would destroy output...

I certainly prefer the M shots, the overexposed mountain and the skies really hurt my visual sensibilities As for details: if I remember it correctly from the days of early iterations of Fuji's...

It seems highly unlikely that X20's firmware would smear the shadow details this badly if it was not needed (due to the noise in the DR400's shadow lifts). Anyway, this is what JPEG shooters have:...

If the goal was to preserve highlights, why did you not compensate the exposition to -0.33 as in the case of FZ200 ? The shadow detail is quite smeared in case of FZ200 shots, while F200EXR manages...