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I have a Fuji X-E1 and until recently a Sony RX100.But I never did like the absence of a viewfinder and so recently sold the RX100 and bought an X20. THis afternoon and yesterday evening had a chance to take some images. The handling of the X20 is really nice, and I do like the quality of the images -- all shot in JPG. Though I normally shoot RAW, the Lightroom conversion just does not seem as good as the OOC from Fuji. Below are several of the images, processed in Lighroom from the OOC jpgs. The last one was taken with the camera set to SR+.





























 
I like the nature shots in particular. Thanks for posting. For future postings, please include the EXIF info as it helps us to interpret things some more.
 
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For future postings, please include the EXIF info as it helps us to interpret things some more.
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For some reason I've also been losing EXIF info recently when I put things into the Gallery so I'm not sure if DPR is stripping it out or perhaps there's a box that I need to tick.

Anyway , I've returned my X20 because of the smearing of detail.
 
Funny, I was going to sell my RX100 before the X20 came out, so glad I didn't. Still love the X20 handling though.
 
Fellow X20 owner - congrats on your purchase. That ev wheel gives more resistance on X20 and not as easy to accidentally knock off as the ev wheel on XE1.

That new Blaze Pizza place on Colorado is a great deal. $6.99 pizza with 3 toppings!
 
I see the smearing water color effect on some of the pictures you posted when use 1:1 view. Is there anything you did when you processed using LR? Can you post the OOC jpeg with no proccessing?

This is not the first time I see the smearing water color effect in pictures from x20. Juste want to know that was due to LR processing, uploading to the site (compression/resize??) or something else. I am highly interested in buying this camera but don't like what I see so far. Thanks.
 
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I see the smearing water color effect on some of the pictures you posted when use 1:1 view. Is there anything you did when you processed using LR? Can you post the OOC jpeg with no proccessing?

This is not the first time I see the smearing water color effect in pictures from x20. Juste want to know that was due to LR processing, uploading to the site (compression/resize??) or something else. I am highly interested in buying this camera but don't like what I see so far. Thanks.
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Check http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51166067 for several samples of the X20 shots. The watercolor is actually from the OOC JPEGs. LR processing will not cause the watercolor effect, unless of course you LR'ed the JPEG itself!
 
I did use Lightroom. However, I also shot in RAW, and the OOC jpgs are better no matter how I tried (in Lightroom). But, frankly, I really do not see much by way of the watercolor effect in these or other images I've taken by way of tests. I do use noise reduction set at -2 in the camera.

Yesterday I shot a sequence using both the RX100 (which today sold) and the X20, and preferred the X20 results. I'm not religiously wedded to any camera - it's easy to sell on ebay if I don't like one that I have. I do see the watercolir effect in images posted online, but so far I'm nit really running much into it, at least not enough to be bothered. The main downside of the x20 for me is that at 1600 iso noise is not great, but then it wasn't on the rx100 either. And the handling of the x20 is very nice.
 
Jed Z. Buchwald said:
Jed Z. Buchwald wrote:

I did use Lightroom. However, I also shot in RAW, and the OOC jpgs are better no matter how I tried (in Lightroom). But, frankly, I really do not see much by way of the watercolor effect in these or other images I've taken by way of tests. I do use noise reduction set at -2 in the camera.

Yesterday I shot a sequence using both the RX100 (which today sold) and the X20, and preferred the X20 results. I'm not religiously wedded to any camera - it's easy to sell on ebay if I don't like one that I have. I do see the watercolir effect in images posted online, but so far I'm nit really running much into it, at least not enough to be bothered. The main downside of the x20 for me is that at 1600 iso noise is not great, but then it wasn't on the rx100 either. And the handling of the x20 is very nice.
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You can found strong water color effect when you look at the the people in the last two pictures... Look it them in 1:1 view here and you will see.

Even the flowers in second picture. You can see it is flat and lack of dimension when you view in 1:1.

I am not sure if you see the same thing in the original copy on your computer. If you dont see the same problem, it could be due to compression when the picture is uploaded to the site tho I never saw such a problem when I uploaded my pictures (taken with other cameras) to other sites... I am not tech smart at all so I don't know...just a wild guess of one of the possibilities.

Please kindly confirm if you see that and compare it with your original copies. Thanks for your help!
 
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nonicks said:
nonicks wrote:
nonicks said:
Jed Z. Buchwald wrote:

I did use Lightroom. However, I also shot in RAW, and the OOC jpgs are better no matter how I tried (in Lightroom). But, frankly, I really do not see much by way of the watercolor effect in these or other images I've taken by way of tests. I do use noise reduction set at -2 in the camera.

Yesterday I shot a sequence using both the RX100 (which today sold) and the X20, and preferred the X20 results. I'm not religiously wedded to any camera - it's easy to sell on ebay if I don't like one that I have. I do see the watercolir effect in images posted online, but so far I'm nit really running much into it, at least not enough to be bothered. The main downside of the x20 for me is that at 1600 iso noise is not great, but then it wasn't on the rx100 either. And the handling of the x20 is very nice.
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You can found strong water color effect when you look at the the people in the last two pictures... Look it them in 1:1 view here and you will see.

Even the flowers in second picture. You can see it is flat and lack of dimension when you view in 1:1.

I am not sure if you see the same thing in the original copy on your computer. If you dont see the same problem, it could be due to compression when the picture is uploaded to the site tho I never saw such a problem when I uploaded my pictures (taken with other cameras) to other sites... I am not tech smart at all so I don't know...just a wild guess of one of the possibilities.

Please kindly confirm if you see that and compare it with your original copies. Thanks for your help!
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What you are seeing in the last picture is the result of using the SR+ setting (high compression). THe other people picture (second to last) is at ISO 400 where some compression for noise does begin to show. As for the flowers, there is just a slight jpg compression effect here, seems to me, not enough I think to be overly concerned with.
 
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