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Disheartening Very Disheartening

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Scottelly
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Re: Disheartening Very Disheartening

Tirpitz666 wrote:

For my tastes, usually for Landscapes and colorful pics, the Vivid setting for the Merrils is usually the best starting point, you can then adjust Contrast to your taste, if it's too much (for the Quattros I usually prefer Standard and then bump up a bit the Saturation if needed, it's also the best for people's skintones in my experience, as Portrait is just horrible..).

I often shot in Landscape color mode with my Merrill, but Portrait color mode with my Quattro. Weird, huh? I love both, but I prefer the Quattro H for its resolution, speed of operation, and ability to focus manually with 8x magnification "live view." Oh, and I prefer using an EVF, because I get to see the affect of my all-manual settings BEFORE presseng the shutter button.

The larger sensor size is both good and bad - better for the wide shots, but worse for the telephoto shots. I've been considering the purchase of a Fuji X-T5, to get that 40 MP APS-C sensor. They have a nice 150-600mm too, which isn't a dust pump, like so many of those long lenses are. My Nikon 200-400mm f4 VR is just SO massive. I really miss my 100-400 OS C on my SD1 Merrill.

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