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The Fujifilm X-H2 High ISO Noise vs the X-T2

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Jared Willson Senior Member • Posts: 1,504
Re: The Fujifilm X-H2 High ISO Noise vs the X-T2
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Thanks for posting the video. I know that comparisons of this type can be more time consuming than one expects, and they are very difficult to make “fare”. That being said, I do have a few concerns:

  • If you are correct that the X-T2 is applying noise reduction at higher ISO’s even to raw files, then the comparison loses most of its usefulness at those ISO’s.
  • Since the two cameras have different megapixel counts, each pixel in the X-H2 file will necessarily receive less light for a given exposure, and will therefore be noisier even if read noise is as well controlled or better controlled in the new sensor. I’d be more interested, just for comparison purposes, in how the two look if you “trade” the higher resolution in the X-H2 for improved SNR by down-sampling to the same image size. That would seem like a better starting point for this comparison. Instead of the X-H2 files being more detailed and also more noisy, they would have similar detail. What would the noise look like then? Just zooming in farther on the X-T2 files isn’t the same.

Again, thanks for posting this. Always interesting to see how camera performance evolves over generations.

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