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

Yidahoo wrote:

Thanks everyone for making this a very interesting discussion. I would like to point out that nowhere in the video have I claimed to be inexperienced with RAW files. I have been shooting and processing RAW for nearly 20 years.

The idea for this video was simply to compare like for like with absolutely no processing. I plan to do another video where I take the same files and process them into usable images in Lightroom, using exactly the same editing settings and applying the same amount of LR noise reduction in order to see how they stack up.

I don't own any third party noise reduction software as I don't shoot high ISO very often.

Your efforts are appreciated, but I think drawing firm conclusions from the exercise would be unwarranted. The problem is if you don't use any of those 20 years of RAW processing experience and simply show what happens based on the default settings - it is as though you are showing what happens if you are entirely inexperienced.

I don't know about LR default settings for the new sensor, but with Capture One the default settings are pretty far off from optimal. As I'm getting closer to finding those optimal settings compared to the X-T2, I'm finding detail to be at least as good with more DR at 3200-6400 when the NR is at a comparable amount of smoothing to the older sensor at optimal settings. Not surprisingly, the new sensor is considerably more detailed at the lower ISO settings - especially so up to ISO 500.

To be entirely clear, you have to apply settings to see a RAW image - and that requires processing. If you are saying that you haven't output from the default settings, that would be the correct nomenclature. Of course viewing output is more helpful, especially properly NR optimized output.