I Regret Getting Rid of My Fuji...

fPrime wrote:

bobogdan78 wrote:

I agree this camera is great in spite of it's age. The quality especially out of raws is excellent and the sooc jpegs are perfect. Pixel peepers won't be too impressed, bad for them. I disagree that it's too old and only sold for parts. I got mine in pretty good condition and it's been working flawlessly for almost 2 years even when I used it in extreme conditions. It's built like a tank and I only fear about Fuji electronics failing one day. There is always a bunch of them for sale and I can get another whenever I want but it's too big and heavy, one is enough for now. As a sidenote I've bought an Oly e-pl3 recently and I was shocked how good it is, it's a sort of miniature S5 without the DR and tonality, e-pl3 looks more digital but the colors and overall picture is very close. I must check more older cameras, there might be more surprises.

I'm of the mindset that none of Fuji's current cameras have the same color image quality of the S5 Pro. New Fuji's have resolution, high ISO, and AF advantages galore, but when it comes to rendering color naturally, and particularly so for human skin, the S5 Pro and its predecessors are in a league of their own.

fPrime

Well the S5 Pro do not produce "natural" rendering, that's why we love Fuji so much.  If you want "natural" go Nikon with more flat plain "natural" looking skin tones.  The S5 as well as other Fuji cameras produce "pleasing" skin tones, but certainly not natural hahaha

I have never shot with a X100 but if Im correct the X100 has 12MP so maybe something like that would be much closer than the S5.  The X-E1 is close, but the S5 produces even more "film like" images with a very different grain and tones.