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C&C: Butterfly loves X-A1

Started May 25, 2014 | Discussions thread
Tom Zimmer
Tom Zimmer Contributing Member • Posts: 627
Re: Bx100's high ISO butterfly photos with X-A1

Miki Nemeth wrote:

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?

Miki,

The smearing you see in your image of the two ladies, looks typical to me of the examples I have seen of Fuji's jpeg processing in low light on the X-A1.

I have seen similar results on my X-E1 when shooting jpeg, and I found pretty quickly that the amount of detail I could get from the camera was significantly higher when I shoot RAW. People seem to come to Fuji X cameras for either the in camera color processing, and never bother with RAW, or they are like me and discover the detail of X RAW files and just decide to give up on jpeg. I'm not sure which you are, but I have heard, as was already mentioned by someone else, that turning noise reduction down to -2 helps reduce the smear you are seeing.

I hope this helps,

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