Fuji dropped the ball big time on JPEGS? Locked

fcracer wrote:

Seems rather counterintuitive to say Fuji has dropped the ball on jpeg when you’ve gone and modified the standard jpeg settings. Perhaps you’ve dropped the ball?

I will agree that once a person starts adjusting the shadows and highlights they're changing the Fuji in-camera JPEG processing algorithms and shouldn't blame Fuji for the out of camera result.

A +3 shadow setting will darken the shadows creating a harsher appearance to the image. For portraits, Fuji recommends pro neg high for outdoors and pro neg standard for indoors.

I've owned a Fuji since about a month after the X-E1 was introduced and although I agree Pro neg standard is one of the film simulations recommended for portraits, Provia is also recommended.

Have to admit I've never heard that pro neg high is recommended for outdoor portraits and pro neg standard is recommended for indoors.  Must have missed that.

I use Provia for all portraits but that's just a personal choice and because I post process every image I intend to keep my choice may not be as important as it would be for a person who didn't post process their images.

Try following Fuji’s advice and see if the image is still not to your liking. I’d also humbly suggest taking into consideration titles for your future posts. Imagine being a colour engineer at Fujifilm and seeing your headline.

I know this is a touchy subject and many people will disagree with me but as much as I like Fuji I do think their JPEG processing has suffered, over the years, and skin tones just don't look quite as good as they did with the original X-Trans processor (X-Pro1/X-E1).

That's not to say the newer cameras aren't "better" but I do think the JPEG engine isn't quite as good.

-- hide signature --

Personal photo blog: www.fcracer.com
Instagram: fcracer
Flickr: fcracer