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IQ difference at nearly same settings?

Started Jul 30, 2015 | Questions thread
forpetessake
forpetessake Veteran Member • Posts: 5,172
Re: IQ difference at nearly same settings?
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Apart from many factors contributing to the images, the few of them are the most important.

It does look like the first picture is misfocused enough to lose small details.

The lens also shows some veiling reducing the contrast and thus effecting sharpening. You can look at the unsharpened pictures from all x-trans Fuji cameras -- they are very soft. So a good lens contrast at lower spacial frequencies is usually more important than a lens resolution.

Finally noise and the effect of noise reduction. Those depend on the amount of light received by sensor, not the ISO. The monkey on the first image received a lot less light than the one on the second image. So it's more noisy and more softened by the adaptive noise reduction.

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