C&C: Butterfly loves X-A1

Bx100 wrote:

My wife's first date out with her RED X-A1.

Hi B, These are lovely photos. I am a happy owner of a X-A1, too, and I am in the process of improving my skills and knowledge to use X-A1 to its limits. I noticed that all your images have rather high ISO values. Have you or your wife used flash for these photos?

First image taken by X-T1 + 60mm f2.4 MACRO and the rest taken by X-A1 + 16-50 kit lens.

On the 1st photo the shutter was insanely high: 1/1800, hence ISO 2000 at F4, I guess. Did you use S or M mode here with auto ISO?

always best to view it in 100%

I did, and honestly at high ISO when pixel peeping with full resolution, the images from X-A1 are not that stunning . I found the same problem/issue/fact/phenomenon with my images (remember I've just started using X-A1)

Here is an example from my recent experimenting: when you opened the photo in full size, the girl's face near the window is smeared. This is a cropped out-of-the camera JPEG.

Taken on a dark train without flash, of course.

I had a look at your flickr photostream and those photos are gorgeous even when opened full size; no high-ISO problems.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61350233@N02/

How can we improve the image quality with the X-A1 at high ISO? Or, shall we simply accept the fact that the high-ISO X-A1 images are better viewed unmagnified?

I am just a beginner fun-photographer seeking for the knowledge, I might be totally wrong.

The red X-A1 looks awesome, BTW. All the best and thank you, Miki