X-H2 Dpreview studio scene and Lr/adobe

pidera wrote:

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Dylan10 wrote:

I hear this is a hot topic, sorry, but I was intrigued to find out for myself why everything is so soft in Lr, I still have no idea. So, I updated my version of dxo to support the X-H2 and was very surprised at the output using noise reduction setting deep prime, indeed it does make things look far far better to my eyes anyway. So much so it seems to be equivalent, possibly better, than the A7IV which I'm sort of frustrated with. On the one hand the A7IV is a really great FF camera but on the other it really isn't great for long exposures. The wifi remote control is flaky and the Bluetooth control irritating. Although I'd prefer a smaller body than X-H2 it at least seems to do everything I want, including long exposures and focus stacking options in-camera without requiring remotes and controllers.

I am very interested in the X-H2 for travel with the Sigma 18-50 2.8 lens and Fuji 55-200, and probably the Tamron 11-20 once available but have noticed the 18-50 isn't working well for many with X-T5, is it the same issues on the X-H2?

Here's the conversion I did in Dxo which I found to be a lot better than the dpreview studio scene sample, anyone know what's happening with Lightroom?

Everything looks better than the DPR's X-Trans RAW examples. They use default Lightroom import settings which are FAR from optimal for the 40MP files. This is Lightroom w/X-Transformer...

I mostly shoot my X-mount camera's in JPEG + RAW but hardly ever use the RAW files. Fuji's own in-camera conversion on the 40 MP cameras also seems lacking by default. I know returns should be expected to diminish, but surely everyone expected a bit more, no ? I'm not checking what has been written about this all over the internet, do you or anyone else know if there is some kind of consensus on what's going on and how to find extra resolving power ?

The main issue is the lack of actual raw images on-line to test results but the imaging resource site now has lots of images so will test some more samples. I like the idea of this camera for sure and dxo does seem to be bringing the best out of the raw files.