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GX80 weird artifacts ?!

Started Dec 7, 2016 | Questions thread
Egregius V
Egregius V Contributing Member • Posts: 538
Re: Shoot RAW (nt)
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zurih wrote:

Probably different/better jpeg engine.

I agree. Panasonic JPEGs can look really good - yet, often enough, I am finding the GX85's JPEGs to be inferior to those from my Olympus gear, because of this blotchy rendering. I knew about it when I bought the camera - it's evident in some online tests. I haven't found a way around it. Not much of an issue for me, since I shoot RAW + JPEG.

I've seen posterized gradients with all of my cameras, even in RAW - e.g., around the sun or moon. Simply a technical limitation - maybe HDR exposure blending can overcome it. But this is a JPEG processing problem. I wonder if it can be improved in firmware - it seems compression and noise reduction settings don't help enough.

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