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Re: So I got a G5X Mk2 - My thoughts
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AdamT wrote:
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

I concur... In fact the recent LR advancements with color matching make it "the answer" to Canon's base ISO NR smearing, which you can't turn off even with NR set to zero in DPP4. LR doesn't have the problem though...

Note the texture retention on the trees in the foreground, and on the ground. This drove me absolutely mad with base ISO smearing away fine details. Lightroom, now that Adobe has their act together nearly 2 years later, 4, excuse me, has it right.
I'd say the latest Lightroom shifts the balance of power here a bit. It still doesn't make the the 1" G5X II challenge say my G1X Mark III or EOS M's (APS-C), but it's nice to have a cure, for needless loss of IQ that was there in the RAWs all along. It's a step towards higher IQ, and making the G5X II more relevant.
The trouble with 1" is the lack of differentiation from smartphone quality at times. Shooting RAW with the G5X II and using a good post processor makes a difference here where the shot above, you can't do with an iPhone, in terms of color and detail retention. Just not possible. Physics at work here of having a larger sensor, larger lens.
The first copy is DPP4, NR set to zero, btw. Second is LR, also no NR. These are base ISO (125), NR is not necessary.