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So I got a G5X Mk2 - My thoughts

Started Mar 20, 2022 | Discussions thread
AdamT
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Re: So I got a G5X Mk2 - My thoughts
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Juggernaut122 wrote:

There were Picture Quality settings (I think that is what it is called) on the G7Xii where you could adjust the edge and shadow sharpness setting, etc... I remember there being optimal settings on the G7xii for this. The G5xii also has these settings, but I have not been able to find any posts that recommend any particular setting as giving better images - I would love to know which works best.

I set this up on the M50 and it gave amazing detail - better than Sony's best with little reason to shoot RAW for much in the way of fine detail gain but canon sadly haven`t replicated this in the G5X-II and have done their usual trick of slapping crude noise reduction all over the place at base ISO which not only smears fine detail away but leaves speckly skies too if any kind of lighting optimiser is chosen. may as well use a phone than this cameras JPG engine from what I`ve seen so far --- RAW is of course the answer

This is the "Fine detail" selection which Marco Nero recommended for the later M bodies which works very well in the M50 . in the G5X-II it gives haloes , crude detail killing NR and flat colours .... the RAW version of the same image seen in the OP (I shot RAW + JPG) is in another ballpark . far from a deal killer for me as I rarely shoot JPG but it`d have been nice to see the detail retaining JPG engine from the later EOS_M cams here . It`d be interesting to try any settings people find retains more

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