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Batdude wrote:

lewiedude2 wrote:

Batdude, respectfully, why do you stay with Fuji? I am really interested in hearing why. Again, I applauded your decision to leave Fujiland and go to canon. But you balked at that. Good luck with your process.

Hi lewiedude2. I discovered and fell in love with Fuji with the S5 Pro. Then I started moving up little by little with the newer models, and I really like the dials experience. And of course I continue liking Fuji’s color tones. Fuji doesn’t do everything for me, that’s the bloody honest truth, which is why Im still a dual systems shooter.

I completely agree with you, I should be shooting with a Canon system, but there are two huge things I have against that corporation, no third party lens availability and no tilt screen. In the end I try to push myself and use what I have because I don’t buy every new camera when one comes out.

But let’s not lie to ourselves, every camera brand has issues and annoying things we have to deal with and I think is important to talk about everything, hardware, software etc.

I do agree that someone said that the resolution war is only going to get worse. That is a fact and we’re living it.

Worse? You mean more pixels? I really am surprised by the backlash of some when more pixels are offered on the same size sensor. Gone are the days when a brand would come out with a higher pixel count just to say they are the leader. Brands come out with new cameras and higher pixel counts because their R&D provides the level of quality to NOT ostracize their current user-base and appeal to some outside the brand that are looking for another reason to change.

By the way, I also do see Canon shooters complaining why they are seeing and having a harder time PP their images and colors don’t look right either, and I believe they are also using adobe. So the problem is not a brand issue but a software issue because since I started shooting RAW+jpeg the jpegs smoke the RAW files I’m getting, and to be honest, I find this really disappointing. That’s adobe’s problem.

This argument is specious and doesn’t hold water for me and likely many others as it is much, much more likely that the user doesn’t have the skills to simply process an image to very high standards in a relatively short amount of time. I’m am very good with my PP as I really know my camera and my software.

Again, good luck to you in this never ending journey. Oh, one more thing, take Bill’s suggestions to heart. It really may be that you need to get better at PP along with proper image making. Understand that I and others will suggest such things to you as you keep posting threads that are focusing on your problems. We are all here to help.