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NX200 vs NX300 sharpness & low pass filter

Started Jan 23, 2014 | Discussions thread
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pixelpushing
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NX200 vs NX300 sharpness & low pass filter

My 'old' NX200 was so sharp I got stepladder aliasing (jaggies) in some shots. Unlike some other cameras, there's no 'soft' filter toggle other than adjusting sharpness for JPEG processing. I also liked the tonal range quite of the last gen, and while highlight falloff could be sharp, enabling DR enhancement depending on the needs of the image made a solid difference. There was gobs of room in pulling shadows (but not much leeway handling blown highlights). That trait seems to have carried over, btw, although perhaps improved just a bit..?

Anyway. Sharpness. Imaging Resource shows the NX300 to be visibly softer in test scenes, which I first took to be a discrepancy in focal plane centering but now I'm not so sure - and I've read a comment here and there that references reduced sharpness of the latest 20.3MP sensor.

Was it ever established whether the NX300 has an AA/LP filter, whether the NX200 did, and are there any other tests other than IR that compare resolving capacity, DR and such now that DPR has all but ruined the usefulness of their own comparison tool with their new scene and no backward compatibility? I know DxO puts the new sensor well above the older 20.3 on their scale, but theirs is not exactly an all-encompassing test...

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