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I like to go back to B&H every now and again to see if the price has dropped sufficiently to tempt and upgrade from an S3 to an S5 yet.
Now go and read those reviews! While everyone is entitled to their opinion and one always need remember that equipment cannot be defamed, I do wonder what kind of "professional" can make review statements like this:
". . . At least they are very pretty pixels... until the built-in interpolation function streches the picture to 12MP. This causes horrible artifacts and "staircase" lines that make the picture look both too soft, too sharp, and much too digital all at the same time. To make this worse, you can ONLY shoot at 12MP in the RAW mode. If you want the perfectly nice (albeit small) 6MP image, you have to shoot in JPG... which pretty much kills any chance you would have had to just shoot in 6MP and blow it up yourself with a good photoshop interpolation plug-in . . ."
Too soft and too sharp all at the same time? WTF!
If you want the perfectly nice (albeit small) 6MP image, you have to shoot in JPG? There are a lot of professional applications which only seem process my S3 RAW images at 6mp so I'd expect the same for S5 images? You would think a "professional" would know this, or at least ask someone else before posting rubbish like this.
Honestly, how may professionals would consider buying a Fuji if they did not already know all about the resolution debate? Or at least download the image samples from the Fuji site before making a purchase decision!
I like to go back to B&H every now and again to see if the price has dropped sufficiently to tempt and upgrade from an S3 to an S5 yet.
Now go and read those reviews! While everyone is entitled to their opinion and one always need remember that equipment cannot be defamed, I do wonder what kind of "professional" can make review statements like this:
". . . At least they are very pretty pixels... until the built-in interpolation function streches the picture to 12MP. This causes horrible artifacts and "staircase" lines that make the picture look both too soft, too sharp, and much too digital all at the same time. To make this worse, you can ONLY shoot at 12MP in the RAW mode. If you want the perfectly nice (albeit small) 6MP image, you have to shoot in JPG... which pretty much kills any chance you would have had to just shoot in 6MP and blow it up yourself with a good photoshop interpolation plug-in . . ."
Too soft and too sharp all at the same time? WTF!
If you want the perfectly nice (albeit small) 6MP image, you have to shoot in JPG? There are a lot of professional applications which only seem process my S3 RAW images at 6mp so I'd expect the same for S5 images? You would think a "professional" would know this, or at least ask someone else before posting rubbish like this.
Honestly, how may professionals would consider buying a Fuji if they did not already know all about the resolution debate? Or at least download the image samples from the Fuji site before making a purchase decision!
