C&C: Butterfly loves X-A1

Miki Nemeth wrote:

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

It doesn't look to bad for iso 1600 at all! But the second girl is out of focus, that is why it looks the way it does. Plus the in camera noise reduction. You could try lowering the noise reduction in camera to -2 (I believe) or shoot raw and use a program like lightroom which will let you process exactly the way you like it on a picture to picture basis. Most JPG engines are a little aggressive with noise reduction and create an unnatural look that way, I don't mind a little noise or grain.