Last night, at the Fuji event, X-T2 vs. S5 Pro

fPrime wrote:

Fuji and the local camera store held a Click & Drink event here in San Diego yesterday to showcase their latest offerings. It's a savvy idea given Nikon and Canon are about to release their own mirrorless cameras. Fuji had XH-1's, XT-2's, and Instax cameras to try out but unfortunately no GFX-50's.

Anyway, I got an X-T2 and 56mm f/1.2 APD to test for 15 minutes. There was not a lot of time to configure the camera much less to shoot. I set Auto ISO, single point AF, and Auto WB but forgot to verify that I was shooting JPEG+RAW and found out after I got back that I only had JPEG's, ugh.

The camera store had kindly provided both a male and female model. Unfortunately each was under completely different lighting. One had low watt studio bulbs behind umbrellas and the other was under dual LED's. Neither was ideal and since they were next to each other they also interfered with each other. Much better if they had simply setup three strobes behind umbrellas and given us a wireless trigger.

Anyway, I enjoyed trying the X-T2 and found the AF under dim lighting to be excellent for still shots. Here is an SOOC JPEG from the loaner camera shot wide open at ISO 1600:

Fuji XT-2 SOOC

As there were about 50 people behind me still waiting to try gear, I had time to shoot the same model with my S5 Pro and a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 shot wide open at ISO 400. Here is a similarly posed shot converted from RAW:

S5 Pro

Note two things. First is that the full sensor AF point coverage of the X-T2 gave me a more natural high AF point for this vertical composition. PDAF in the S5 doesn’t stretch to the corners. Second, this is not an entirely fair color comparison as I had the RAW file from the S5 and thus could fix the WB. Due to the low light I also struggled shooting the 17-55 at 1/60. It really ought to have been 1/80 or 1/100 but I didn't want to push it to ISO 800 given the noise limitations of CCD. In fairness, the X-T2 could also have selected a lower ISO than ISO 1600 or 1/340. I really wish there would have been more play time to setup custom WB and dial in optimal settings for both cameras.

Anyway, it was a fun event. I think I will continue to drag along my old school equipment to future events. A lot of people asked me what I as shooting and were keen to hear about the advantage Fuji had over competitive DSLR's in 2006 with their SuperCCD sensor.

Here's another S5 Pro example for the remaining CCD faithful:

Fuji S5 Pro

fPrime

Hard to argue for any of the 2 cameras here as neither of your shots are properly in focus.

Dunno what else to say but looking at those shots at screen res it looks to me that the S5 is holding its own nicely. In fact I would prefer the S5 shots.

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