They say X10 ORBs are nothing but blooming any camera does ...

... I say "OK, if you insist" ...

I agree with you, not any camera has that invasive blooming effect.

But to test and stress properly other camera sensors you should try with longer exposition times, 4-5 seconds or even more. This is the condition when x10 blooming effect become unacceptable.

ZoranC said:

... I say "OK, if you insist" ...

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Not really sure what your point is here (that other camera don't bloom? They all do at some point...) but, apart from the interesting artifacts you're showing in your pictures (concentric areas around light sources), there was always something that looked mighty fishy to me concerning those X10's orbs: I have never seen perfectly circular blooms from any device...

Blooming that I have seen looks more like irregular bright lines with a certain randomness to them but never look like perfect circles.

My take is that perfect regularity means that these orbs are not only blooming (if they are blooming at all...): there is something else at play, either in Fuji's hardware or software that produces them.

We'll see what Fuji does. If it's blooming then there is little that can be done apart from producing a better sensor with a better anti-blooming grid and the expected firmware update will do little to nothing to eradicate the problem.

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Axe71 said:

(...) you should try with longer exposition times, 4-5 seconds or even more. This is the condition when x10 blooming effect become unacceptable.

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Excuse me but I must differ:

In this "Orbs Galore" post, http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1012&thread=40048789 , one can find samples shot at 1/900 and even 1/2000 s.

Ah, remember "Patient Zero"? ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/6301640383/sizes/l/in/photostream/ ) Broad daylight, 1/350 s...

edu T said:

Ah, remember "Patient Zero"? ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/6301640383/sizes/l/in/photostream/ ) Broad daylight, 1/350 s...

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For me this was the definitive image and published before the camera's release.
(EXIF shows date November 1)

I saw it before I got the camera and really didn't know what to make of it although I thought it might be an early version.
Certainly not normal blooming.

I would say its acceptable for the this oly. X10 blooming is far worse than this, to an extent I would say its unacceptable.

Many would have agreed.

Just joking.

"Hey someone said something wrong, but as I know he is wrong I will use this to show everybody once again how smart I AM..."

Well, my guess is that the few that do not ignore you will hardly be re-persuaded....

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