Fuji's consumer grade cameras got more aggressive JPEG sharpening?

ikaika777 wrote:

hendriximages wrote:

Hello,

Got myself a Fuji X-E3 to have an interchangeable lens camera of comparable compactness to my X100F but was quite disappointed to discover that the X-E2's JPEG sharpening algorithm seems to be way more aggressive (also comparing to my X-Pro2 & X-T2 which I'd sold previously):

Fuji X-E3's aggressive JPEG sharpening, see red arrows!

To be fair, you only see this when enlarging JPEG's real BIG - probably not many are doing that (and, obviously RAW´s are not affected). But I do mainly use JPEG´s for printing big, coz I love ACROS's tonality dependent grain (not available when post processing RAW files)

So I wanted to know if any of youse have been confronted with this phenomenon?

Traded in my X-E3 for an X-H1, which don't demonstrate such JPEG sharpening artifacts. If interested please head over to my website (link below) for the full story!

Many thanks & best regards,

Hendrik

I can tell you this, I have an X-E3 and I shoot 97% in B&W set for jpeg and raw using Acros and I set my in camera jpeg sharpness to +2 and I don’t get what you got. I think the problem you got had to do with a mixture of something far away, small, and low light against the sky as the background. I’ve never heard that Fuji tweaked the sharpness on the X-E3, if they did I wouldn’t have it set for +2.

hi

your're right this is only visible with small farther away details against even backgrounds, actually seems to occur more on wide-angle lenses (less abrupt sharpness fall-off outside focal plane), especially at larger apertures

It's just not OK for me ... anyway I´ve sent a request to Fuji's customer service asking them whether the X-E3's parameters are different to the other X-Trans III sensor cameras. will keep y'all posted