Dissapointed in S1 Pro?

[Brooks Whittington65761]

Group,

I recently bought a Fuji S1 Pro, basically just to see what it could do, and perhaps use it for engagements and bridals, to save the cost of printing out color proofs.

I have put a couple of sessions on it, (backed up with film of course), and have to say, that I am quite dissapointed in the results. However, I am aware that this is most likely because of what I am doing wrong, as opposed to the camera itself being bad.

So, here are the settings that I used, and the results that I got. I shot almost all photos on the Fine setting at 2306 at various film speeds. IN EVERY SHOT, there is VERY obvious signs of pixelization (even on a 5x7 print), so much that I would consider the camera to be unusable.

I have heard very good things about this camera, and I am assuming that whatever is wrong is my fault.

Would someone please share their settings, and/or tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

--Brooks Whittington
http://www.WhittingtonPhotography.com

 

[rick decker]

what printer are you using? you might want to send your shots to an internet service try the printer of a friend. the other option is to try your camera on other settings and see if there is any difference using photoshop or some similar product.

 

[JHF]

Group,

I recently bought a Fuji S1 Pro, basically just to see what it
could do, and perhaps use it for engagements and bridals, to save
the cost of printing out color proofs.

I have put a couple of sessions on it, (backed up with film of
course), and have to say, that I am quite dissapointed in the
results. However, I am aware that this is most likely because of
what I am doing wrong, as opposed to the camera itself being bad.

So, here are the settings that I used, and the results that I got.
I shot almost all photos on the Fine setting at 2306 at various
film speeds. IN EVERY SHOT, there is VERY obvious signs of
pixelization (even on a 5x7 print), so much that I would consider
the camera to be unusable.

I have heard very good things about this camera, and I am assuming
that whatever is wrong is my fault.

Would someone please share their settings, and/or tell me what I am
doing wrong?

Thanks,

--
Brooks Whittington
http://www.WhittingtonPhotography.com

In studio with white lightning strobes I shoot M-125-F8,Org-Org.Stndrd,

Cust.WB set,320-Fine-2304. In studio natural window light with reflectors I turn dial to Auto leave all other settings same, may bump to 400, camera on tripod. Outdoors with fill flash, Camera set to Apeture F11, all other camera settings I leave the same as indoors. My flash is a sunpack set to auto F8, I sometimes change to F4 then camera from 6.7 to F8. I have learned the curve with this camera pretty well. This is my first all digital year at my studio and shoot 400 H.S. seniors along with other family sittings and the S1 has done very well. No camera problems, I have my lab setup on line right on my desktop to transfer images direct connection, all printed on Kodak paper and delived to my studio. The quality has been excellant !

The following is a collection of photo's I've taken with the previous mentioned settings. 90 % are right out of camera original file.

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=1762306

Good Luck ! John

 

[Anthony32599]

Do these signs of pixelization appear when viewing on the monitor or during printing? If the images look fine at full size on the monitor, then your problem is with your printer settings.

Also, can you put up an image for us to analyze?

Thanks,
Anthony

Group,

I recently bought a Fuji S1 Pro, basically just to see what it
could do, and perhaps use it for engagements and bridals, to save
the cost of printing out color proofs.

I have put a couple of sessions on it, (backed up with film of
course), and have to say, that I am quite dissapointed in the
results. However, I am aware that this is most likely because of
what I am doing wrong, as opposed to the camera itself being bad.

So, here are the settings that I used, and the results that I got.
I shot almost all photos on the Fine setting at 2306 at various
film speeds. IN EVERY SHOT, there is VERY obvious signs of
pixelization (even on a 5x7 print), so much that I would consider
the camera to be unusable.

I have heard very good things about this camera, and I am assuming
that whatever is wrong is my fault.

Would someone please share their settings, and/or tell me what I am
doing wrong?

Thanks,

--
Brooks Whittington
http://www.WhittingtonPhotography.com

 

[Barper]

Brooks: As you surmise, the problem is not with the camera; it is either with your printer or printer settings. What printer are you using? I use Epson Photo printers with absolutely stunning results, printing via Qimage software.

Best of luck!

 

[Alan Schietzsch]

For pixels to be very obvious in a 2000+ pixel wide image, you'd have to be printing in excess of 16x20. Could it be the way the file's being used?

For example, is the file (at 72 dpi out of the camera) being resized at that low native resolution? That would do it.

If you resize with resampling OFF, the quality would be retained.
Just a guess!

• Alan

ARS Technical Images
Edmonton, Canada

 

[Elmar67790]

Group,

I recently bought a Fuji S1 Pro, basically just to see what it
could do, and perhaps use it for engagements and bridals, to save
the cost of printing out color proofs.

I have put a couple of sessions on it, (backed up with film of
course), and have to say, that I am quite dissapointed in the
results. However, I am aware that this is most likely because of
what I am doing wrong, as opposed to the camera itself being bad.

So, here are the settings that I used, and the results that I got.
I shot almost all photos on the Fine setting at 2306 at various
film speeds. IN EVERY SHOT, there is VERY obvious signs of
pixelization (even on a 5x7 print), so much that I would consider
the camera to be unusable.

I have heard very good things about this camera, and I am assuming
that whatever is wrong is my fault.

Would someone please share their settings, and/or tell me what I am
doing wrong?

Thanks,

--
Brooks Whittington
http://www.WhittingtonPhotography.com

Set the camera at Fine and 3020, Standard Color & tone.

 

[ResIpsaLoquitur]

My wife had the same problem with her Finepix 6900 - it turned out she was changing the print size in Photoshop with resampling checked, so her DPI was kept at just 72...Prints looked awful, with obvious pixellation.

So I doubt its aything at all to do with the S1, which is super for portraits. Make usre you keep the dpi up to around 300 when resizing, or simply uncheck resample.
--
Quentin

Group,

I recently bought a Fuji S1 Pro, basically just to see what it
could do, and perhaps use it for engagements and bridals, to save
the cost of printing out color proofs.

I have put a couple of sessions on it, (backed up with film of
course), and have to say, that I am quite dissapointed in the
results. However, I am aware that this is most likely because of
what I am doing wrong, as opposed to the camera itself being bad.

So, here are the settings that I used, and the results that I got.
I shot almost all photos on the Fine setting at 2306 at various
film speeds. IN EVERY SHOT, there is VERY obvious signs of
pixelization (even on a 5x7 print), so much that I would consider
the camera to be unusable.

I have heard very good things about this camera, and I am assuming
that whatever is wrong is my fault.

Would someone please share their settings, and/or tell me what I am
doing wrong?

Thanks,

--
Brooks Whittington
http://www.WhittingtonPhotography.com

 

[eric_j_h]

It is not the camera. I have sent a file to photobox.co.uk and had it printed to 30 by 20 inches. Pixelation was just beginning to show if you looked very closely (and only on certain diagonals at close inspection of 2-3 inches). At normal viewing distance it looked exactly like a photograph (2-3 feet away)