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Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun. Took an image just south out our backyard, had to use LR to fix WB, the hue of the sky , some sharpening etc. Then it looked just like it was to my eyes (the cam made our red maple tree look green, weird.) but, I like editing so this will be fun, it gets me taking photos and editing again.





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Canon SL1 18-55IS, 50mm F1.8, 70-300IS
 
Congrats! It's a fascinating camera to work with, in so many ways. -Nice to see another one join the company in this forum.

We have wild turkeys breeding and hatching into the summer, here. One hen is down to just one poult, and though wary, they sometimes appear in our yards. I'm glad for the 624mm equiv. zoom. Otherwise, getting a shot of them in the open would be impossible.

This one was taken from the back corner of our house into a side yard across the street. I don't seem to have WB challenges as you mention, but the noise and lack of sharpness are more challenging in low light with ISO 800 or higher.

Half of a 6MP frame, equivalent to 1248mm.
Half of a 6MP frame, equivalent to 1248mm.
 
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Howard V said:
Congrats! It's a fascinating camera to work with, in so many ways. -Nice to see another one join the company in this forum.

We have wild turkeys breeding and hatching into the summer, here. One hen is down to just one poult, and though wary, they sometimes appear in our yards. I'm glad for the 624mm equiv. zoom. Otherwise, getting a shot of them in the open would be impossible.

This one was taken from the back corner of our house into a side yard across the street. I don't seem to have WB challenges as you mention, but the noise and lack of sharpness are more challenging in low light with ISO 800 or higher.

Half of a 6MP frame, equivalent to 1248mm.
Half of a 6MP frame, equivalent to 1248mm.
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Thanks, this is my 3rd X-S1, had two before and sold them, (it's my 9th Fuji cam) so I missed having one to play with. :)
( first was the S6000, then a couple S100's, F200, F70, HS-50,and 3 X-S1's)
Nice shot of the turkey, the fence makes a great backdrop too for the shot :) We get a lot of those in our area, just not in our yard.

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Canon SL1 18-55IS, 50mm F1.8, 70-300IS
 
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Ron777 said:
Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun.
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TBH, I don't like the way you processed these images or one of our monitors is totally screwed. SOOC looks better, just needed a play with contrast and/or saturation. You seemed to have introduced a yellow tinge.
 
Danielepaolo said:
Ron777 said:
Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun.
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TBH, I don't like the way you processed these images or one of our monitors is totally screwed. SOOC looks better, just needed a play with contrast and/or saturation. You seemed to have introduced a yellow tinge.
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On my iMac monitor the SOOC jpeg sample looked a bit bright and cool. For my taste the correction could have benefited from a little less amber and a bit more red. I’d also add a bit of clarity and less brightness. But everyone’s taste is a bit different. 🫤
 
Danielepaolo said:
Ron777 said:
Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun.
Click to expand...
TBH, I don't like the way you processed these images or one of our monitors is totally screwed. SOOC looks better, just needed a play with contrast and/or saturation. You seemed to have introduced a yellow tinge.
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Monitors are a red herring for sure, mine is calibrated, so I 'assume it's accurate. In real life it had that amber late afternoon light, it matched how I'm seeing the 2nd photo. The image on the left looks very cold to me, and doesn't have that amber tone the scene actually had.
 
Howard V said:
Danielepaolo said:
Ron777 said:
Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun.
Click to expand...
TBH, I don't like the way you processed these images or one of our monitors is totally screwed. SOOC looks better, just needed a play with contrast and/or saturation. You seemed to have introduced a yellow tinge.
Click to expand...
On my iMac monitor the SOOC jpeg sample looked a bit bright and cool. For my taste the correction could have benefited from a little less amber and a bit more red. I’d also add a bit of clarity and less brightness. But everyone’s taste is a bit different. 🫤
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ok, interesting. I didn't change the exposure or brightness just did a quick color adjustment, I did add a bit of clarity and sharpness. but mostly just changed the white balance, for the color change, I let lightroom use it's auto white balance and that added the amber tone that matched the scene to my eyes.
 
Ron777 said:
Howard V said:
Danielepaolo said:
Ron777 said:
Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun.
Click to expand...
TBH, I don't like the way you processed these images or one of our monitors is totally screwed. SOOC looks better, just needed a play with contrast and/or saturation. You seemed to have introduced a yellow tinge.
Click to expand...
On my iMac monitor the SOOC jpeg sample looked a bit bright and cool. For my taste the correction could have benefited from a little less amber and a bit more red. I’d also add a bit of clarity and less brightness. But everyone’s taste is a bit different. 🫤
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ok, interesting. I didn't change the exposure or brightness just did a quick color adjustment, I did add a bit of clarity and sharpness. but mostly just changed the white balance, for the color change, I let lightroom use it's auto white balance and that added the amber tone that matched the scene to my eyes.
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Total thumbs up! :-)
 
Danielepaolo said:
Ron777 said:
Picked one up again off ebay, (like I mentioned in Tilly's thread), sure is fun to play with.
The SOOC images for sure do need some post processing, especially Fuji's color and white balance, but still very fun.
Click to expand...
TBH, I don't like the way you processed these images or one of our monitors is totally screwed. SOOC looks better, just needed a play with contrast and/or saturation. You seemed to have introduced a yellow tinge.
Click to expand...
Since I wasn't 'sure' about my monitor calibration, I sent the photo to my apple device, on it's screen the SOOC image did have more of that amber tone and wasn't as cold as it was on my laptop screen, it wasn't quite as amber as it was in real life, but would have been good enough or only needed a bit (less than I did in the second photo), so I ordered a new Spider Calibration Kit and can get my screen calibrated for sure so I know for positive how the images actually are :)
 
I had a calibrated monitor in the past, but it seems that since online photos are viewed on a variety of devices--most not calibrated--I came to think there was no point unless the photo was being printed. Photos simply look different on different devices.

Anyone else notice this?
 
SnowshoeLane said:
I had a calibrated monitor in the past, but it seems that since online photos are viewed on a variety of devices--most not calibrated--I came to think there was no point unless the photo was being printed. Photos simply look different on different devices.

Anyone else notice this?
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That is 100% true for sure~

I guess I just want to make sure I'm seeing it right and editing it right, and it's at a repeatable standard, that way if I move ot a new PC, I can calibrate that one and things will still be right. It's so hard with things like white balance and contrast if you have no idea how it is, where it's going, etc. Can drive a person nuts when editing lol
 
Yeah, after being told "your colors are all wrong" from my calibrated monitor, I decided not to worry about anything I posted. Most devices seem to display in the cool range. Definitely a "whatever" moment.
 
Welcome to my "color blind" world, one reason I originally got my S1, because many people raved about the Fuji colors. I'm sure members here gave up long ago trying to figure out my sometimes ridiculous use of color.
 
Hello, I am intrigued! What white balance setting do you use? I would love to see the out of camera shot in original size. I have always found auto white balance to be very reliable, probably in 99.9% of cases, including indoors. I am using my X-S1 a little more, very similar behaviour to my old X10, apart from handling obviously.

My Olympus camera has a great setting hidden deep in the menu’s ‘keep warm colours off’ I really like that feature.
 
Miss tilly said:
Hello, I am intrigued! What white balance setting do you use? I would love to see the out of camera shot in original size. I have always found auto white balance to be very reliable, probably in 99.9% of cases, including indoors. I am using my X-S1 a little more, very similar behaviour to my old X10, apart from handling obviously.

My Olympus camera has a great setting hidden deep in the menu’s ‘keep warm colours off’ I really like that feature.
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yeah the one on the left if the cams auto WB, this is my 3rd X-SI and like 8th fuji cam, all them always subdue the yellow-light green in nature with their auto WB. I use auto just for easiness. I'll probably go in the menus and set a warmer one and save it to C1 for outdoors, then use it's basic setting for WB indoors and just edit it after. Oddly, indoors it's usually too yellow and outdoors missing the yellows.
 
Ran the full calibration, my screen was like 99% there anyway lol. Well, at least I know for sure. It's 6500K and gamma 2.2 spot on, before I ran it, looks like it was almost that exactly anyway. So the yellow/amber colors I'm seeing are technically correct.
 
My first digicam was the S6900Z which is now in its box in my closet. I moved on to a Sigma DSLR after that. Many years ago, I bought a new X-S1. Although it doesn't seem much use due to my going through some physical issues the last few years, I'll never part with it.
 
What you post seems to reflect an increasing trend I observe here, that X-S1 cameras are highly valued while declining in actual usage. .
 
I think that sums it up very nicely Howard. I have started leaving mine on a hall table rather than putting it away in a drawer. My thinking being that it is more likely to see some use that way. The X-S1 is a very special camera.
 
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