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Are "waxy looks" still an issue at high ISO?

Started Jul 5, 2019 | Questions thread
HB1969 Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
Re: look at DPRs sample gallery

AMSOS wrote:

HB1969 wrote:

When the xpro2 first came out, DPRev took a couple of shots with -4NR to evaluate skin tones at high iso

https://www.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/7231527884/sample-gallery-fujifilm-x-pro2/3217949703

View the image before this one to compare without -4NR

NB that image was taken at ISO8000 which is a pretty extreme situation.

There's also another shot of Carey Rose with and without -4NR but they also process with a different film sim so not really comparable.

Thanks for digging up this link! Nice, natural looking skin tones that are a far cry from what I see on the X-E2s. In fact, they seem fine even without the -4 NR applied - I had to zoom in all the way to see that in fact there is a difference between NR 0 and -4.

This basically means that OOC JPEGs taken with the right settings have indeed solved the issue. So, anything from the X-T2 to it's younger sibling the X-T20 will work the same.

Thanks!

Glad I could help

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