Coldpaw
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Re: Anyone moved from M4/3 to Fujifilm X series?
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I have been a M43 shooter since 2015 and got an X-Pro3 along with a trio of lenses in 2021. While I have sold a part of my M43 kit, I still own an Olympus camera and quite a number of different lenses and plan to keep it this way. The Oly kit is, overall, still quite a bit more compact and lighter than my X-Pro kit, I also have a wider range of lenses for it, not just some primes.
One of the reasons I got interested in Fujifilm was the idea for better sooc jpegs: Spend less time processing RAW files, but simply load up the jpg, maybe crop it when needed and done. While I am indeed using more sooc jpegs, it still is a lot less than I originally imagined. Quite often I still rather open the RAW file, process and tweak it further to my liking and use the processed jpeg instead of the sooc one. While I do like the creative aspect of the Film Simulations and playing around with the recipes the dedicated community is creating, the outcome is not always to my liking - hence while I still shoot RAW+jpg on the Fujifilm.
While I prefer the higher ISO performance for sooc jpegs of the Fujifilm, not only there is less noise, but it especially looks more "natural", less distracting to my eyes, when it comes to processing RAW images, I wasn't too impressed with the gain in terms of image quality: DXO PhotoLabs works really well with M43 files when it comes to cleaning up the noise, it almost negates the disadvantage of my Olympus almost completely. I noticed a somewhat better DR with more headroom especially in the highlights.
As I said I happily shoot both systems side by side, sometimes I prefer taking my trusted Olympus, sometimes I prefer taking the Fujifilm. Both offer their own unique shooting experience. However I pretty much never take the X-Pro3 with the goal of getting better IQ.