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Very poor image quality from G1x MK 2 (in my opinion!)

Started Aug 31, 2014 | Questions thread
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Re: Very poor image quality from G1x MK 2 (in my opinion!)

I think the problem the G1X Mk II will have is that it is still a compact but because it is on the large size people forget that. It has a stonking great sensor in at and an amazingly compacted wide angle 5X lens and a pretty fast one at that. It is not going to match a good prime or even a slow 3x kit lens but who would expect it to.

The RX100 is very small but a much smaller sensor and a not very ambitious zoom. Probably the G1X is getting some bad press because people think of it as a fixed lens DLSR and expect the same IQ but it is doing so much more within a remarkably small size considering.

You do not buy compacts for big crops so why indeed look at 200% as you say.

Edit: The problem with the first image is that the OP is trying to use it like a very fast telephoto prime and the background is not bokeh but just out of focus and disturbing, to me anyway. The camera can only do so much.

seri_art wrote:

Way are you viewing the images at 200%. I can no value at all for that. Looking at the original-size images, they look good and sharp to me.

Graham Whiles wrote:

Also below is a screen shot of a .cr2 raw file in the DPP edit window zoomed to 200%. The image looks patchy and has no clarity at all.

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