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Fujifilm S5 Pro

Started Nov 16, 2020 | Discussions thread
Neil-O Contributing Member • Posts: 593
Re: Fujifilm S5 Pro
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Batdude wrote:

marco1974 wrote:

It was a great camera in its time. I had it and loved it.

But techology has since moved on. My current X-H1 runs rings around it, in ALL respects.

Marco

The S5 Pro 🦖 still runs rings around the XH1 when it comes down to skin tones 😁

I have so much better F mount glass now than when I had the S5 Pro I wish I never sold it.

That's a good point - I suspect a lot of users gave up on the S5 pro because without top quality lenses it does have a tendency to produce soft images.  However, software has moved on leaps and bounds since the camera was launched and a lot can be achieved in post processing now.  Lightroom is also, at last, a genuine alternative for processing raw files.  I'll bet most S5 users back in the day just shot jpeg because of the dreadful HU-3 software.

It's a unique camera - comparing it with modern CMOS based dslr's is missing the point.  If you use an S5pro you don't complain about low light performance or autofocus or resolution, you marvel at what it can do.   Most who know about these things agree that it renders skin tones better than many modern cameras, and it is pretty much unrivalled even today in its ability to recover highlight detail.

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