Just don't see the S5 as and ordinary Ford, nor do I see the 1dsmk3 as a Ferrari!
I don't think there's a degree called Bachelor of Camera Testing Science... everyone learns through trial and error. Not even when NASA finds something it's final... Forgetting this is a big mistake.
The OP did the test in good intent and didn't command anyone to take his post as gospel. There are tons of websites out there doing flawed technical reviews of all sorts of things but no one does anything more than not go to their site anymore in the worst case. The OP took the time do this test and posted it for everyone to see. The reader should know that anything out there could be flawed.
There are professional lenses sold for thousands of dollars that sometimes don't perform correctly, right out of the box... do you hear Canon or Nikon apologising for these things that happen everyday?
That's because you have no confidence in your talent and depend on your gear to compensate for it. And the moment your gear gets scrutinized, you take it personally.
These things even happen in scientific journals... you should be attached to the photos you take... not to the gear you take them with.
So all your satisfaction comes from what other people think about your camera? Not from your shots? Thankfully, natural selection hasn't been too wrong...
I had two reason for that, first and most important, I didn't like the Nikon look; again. I had a D2x before the Fuji S3 and still changed over back then even considering the relatively slow and inconvenient body of the S3, the S5 has taken care of that for me. The D3 is definitely better than the D2x in every way but to my eyes and in my hands it still has that Nikon look with little tonal depth & gradation. The colors could be tweaked but not the tones or maybe I couldn't get them to work for me in the week that I had the camera.
You can pick up a Kodak in pretty good condition for around $1500 or less these days, since the D3. I can lend you mine to play with the next time you're in the city.
I mean no offense by this either,
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Again, do you own the S5 because it is the camera that
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If a person even thinks about selling their multi-thousand
These things aren't status
Peace,
Yes, we all make mistakes. But one of the must important things in any test or in taking any photograph for that matter is to see that you actually focussed the shot properly. Hardly NASA stuff or rocket science. If you can't see that on a 2.5 lcd zoomed in, then fair enough..... but not to see it on a 15 inch monitor or to check for this is a little lame IMO if you are presenting a test to the world in which they possibly might use the data to evaluate a cameras capabilities. Again no offence to all, but IMO if you are going to present a test to the forum, then why produce a totally screwed up one when it is not all that hard to do a correct one? It is a valid comment.
It was a test. Why post the test if nobody can take the information posted as serious or true?
Again you make excuses for the OP's failing to spot that HE made the error in having the S5 shot out of focus. He re-tested and got it right with the SAME lens.
Rubbish. I know what my gear can do, but I knew nothing of the performance of the MkIII. I was more alarmed as to the MKIII being that far ahead like others were too.
I didn't realise that the OP's "test" becomes canonical when it's posted on this forum. It's all funny really... you acted like you woke up in a dark room and thought you were blind for a while.
I don't think you understand the word "intent". Also I've never seen anyone persistently defending themselves this much when everyone else knows you're wrong. You're really making a fool of yourself here with comments like "why post the test if nobody can take the info posted as serious or true?". Do you think if the OP knew it was wrong, they'd still post it at the expense of their credibility?
People make mistakes. He realised and corrected his error... that's great. And some (like the OP) realise their errrors sooner than others (like you).
So what if the Canon was that much better? Do you like photography just because you think you have a sharp camera? Attitudes like yours are a disgrace even to the little artistry that is left in photographers thesedays.
It certainly is that far ahead.
So everyone know that i'm wrong, eh? Read the whole thread....bud. There was others who felt the same as me and had reservations about the testing as well. Maybe you are the one who got blinded in the darkroom so here you are:
No, i'm not a disgrace. This is a technical forum to discuss cameras and equipment. The heading on the way if i'm not mistaken says " Fujifilm SLR Talk Forum...... Welcome to the Fujifilm SLR Talk Forum, the place to discuss Fujifilm SLR digital cameras"
I concur with Bernie
6 mega pixels is ..6 mega pixels
Maybe give the rest of the readers a little more intellectual credit? If someone stumbles across his one post and makes a multi-thousand dollar decision right then and there, Skip would be last person to blame.
I did not say I discounted the corrected shot, but I said that the letter size was above the resolution limit of both cameras it was rendered quite clear. A printed letter is not a complex structure, so the Fuji does relatively well, let's see the same for landscape or other fine details. Even at it's up- interpolated 12MP there is a lot of unsharpness in the finer detail, let alone 21MP.
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