Joel Stern wrote:
Rachotilko wrote:
This is irony right ?
So let's talk oranges then, in case it is not. As you can see
here, surface of the orange fruit is not smooth, it is bumpy. The oranges on the X20 samples are so much affected by NR that they look as smooth as eggs.
So for whatever reason Fuji is posting pics with heavy NR..ok, I always turn my NR off or to the lowest anyway. I bet in the hands of forum members we will see pics that are very pleasing to most of us. I bet Fuji posts what they think the majority of people want to see. How many people that buy cameras are posting on DPR, a minority for sure. Or Pixel Peeping, again a minority.
Since Rachotilko wants to talk oranges, these are blood oranges.
From Wikipedia:
"The blood orange is a variety of
orange (Citrus
× sinensis) with crimson, almost-
blood-colored flesh. The
fruit is smaller than an average orange; its skin is usually pitted, but
can be smooth".
So if Rachotilko wants all oranges to look like the Florida oranges on Flickr, I'm afraid he is going to have to have to avoid using blood oranges in his still life.
Personally, I really like the rendering of these images. You can see the similarities with other X-Trans images in the colors, and low noise. Because they are JPEGs there is off some NR, but it's not excessive blurring of detail like some Sony low-end P&Ss.
These images look more refined, similar to other X-Trans images with terrific colors, and tonal transitions. Sharpness and detail is good, but they don't look hit-you-in-the-face over-sharpened like some P&S JPEGs.
The ISO 100 image of the river, we are seeing virtually no noise at all in the water at 100%. Pixel peep at 100% any base ISO X10 image and you will see some subtle noise in the sky, water, etc. These look cleaner, and even the ISO 800 night image (the last one) noise looks extremely well controlled.
Same with the ISO 400 image of the girl with the schoolbook. It is extremely clean, and I think it looks cleaner than my Nikon V1 at ISO 400 (but I hardly ever shoot JPEG on the V1, so I'll have to check that again. Look at it at 100% and the notebook and her knit cap have almost no noise AT ALL. It's only ISO 400, but realize that some ISO 100 images from other compact show noise in continuous tone areas like the sky. This is great news.
Anyway, when we see RAWs, and when they usual PhotographyBlog snapshot samples are published, I'm sure will see even more goodness from the X20.
But this is really good. I'm delighted with these few X20 samples. As long as you realize that they are OOC JPEGs, only seven images and that Fuji has a history of mediocre sample photos, I'm sure you'll be as pleased as I am.
