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X-PRO 1 - X-E1 - X-E2, Genuine advice

Started Jun 9, 2021 | Questions thread
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Re: X-PRO 1 - X-E1 - X-E2, Genuine advice
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uniball wrote:

Strangefinder wrote:

There may be a love-hate quality to the X-Trans II platform (which added phase-detect). Many people joined Fuji via the X-T1, and praise it, while others were dismayed by the "waxy" skintones at higher ISO.

Fortunately, most people who purchased xt1's didn’t/don’t shoot jpeg and never came across waxy skin tones. For many than did, a brief visit to the menu>NR took care of it. But you are correct, there is always that group who purchased the wrong camera, for the wrong reason and never learned how to use it.

For years people have been parroting this and it’s still wrong - no, a visit to NR in the menu did not fix it. Nothing fixed it. It was a deliberate beautifying process baked into the jpeg processing by Fuji and it was not affected by the standard noise reduction setting. Fuji screwed it up, luckily they rectified their mistake in X-Trans III and later. There’s no need to keep on making excuses for it now, it’s history.

As for “that group who purchased the wrong camera”, jpeg shooters have always been a big part of Fuji’s user base and I’d say those numbers are only increasing as Fuji continue to develop more film sims and other jpeg adjustments in camera.  They may seem “wrong” to you, but Fuji certainly welcome their custom.

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