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I double checked this on my X-H1.  I reprogrammed the front control dial on the X-H1 to change ISO, in spite of it having a dedicated dial.  I did that to keep the operation of the X-H1 and X-T2 ...

Quite right.  Thanks for setting that straight, and next time, I think I’ll make an attempt to think before jumping in and posting [sigh].

I never claimed it was a flame.  I do know there's a bit of tension between you two at times, and in my role as "keeper of the peace" I'm simply trying to keep things on topic and avoid ...

Let it rest, Greg, unless you want to intentionally start a mini flame war.  A reminder... let's keep it on topic, please.

My apologies for inadvertently leaving this out of the OP -- accidental omission. Thanks AndyH44 for pointing this out and my sincere apologies.

Fuji 18-55 2.8-4 R LM OIS lens in near mint condition with no dings, physical or optical defects.  Excellent IQ, but replaced with a 16-55 and no longer in use.

Thanks, Vic.  Displaying the images in this manner makes it really easy to do a quick A/B comparison between them, and the difference in contrast is [painfully] obvious when you do that.  I'm ...

Anxiously awaiting your “it REALLY doesn’t suck” examples because that one also caught my eye bigtime.  Nice work.

Vic-- Thought I might have a bit of a play with the image you commented on earlier. Here's the "before"... And the after: Just tweaked a few settings with LR to try to improve contrast and allow ...

"B" for sure IMHO.  Been quite a few years since I've been to that particular zoo, so take this with a grain of salt.  I've used the 100-400 almost exclusively at a number of zoos and it's been ...

Not surprising.  I'm still learning my craft and am always up for a little schooling.  I'll pay closer attention to this and perhaps tweak some of the images a bit to see what impact some ...

There's some definitely room for improvement in post. I just picked one of these images up, looked at my original settings in LR, and realized that I'd not applied any additional NR. Not good, at ...

Vic, looks like we may be doomed to disagree in this thread. :-) Testing OIS/IBIS stability and testing optics are two completely different things. Testing OIS/IBIS almost has to be done handheld ...

Bob, your comments are spot on.  Here are the LR settings and they basically confirm your assessment IMHO.  In general, I see absolutely no contrast issues attributable to either camera/sensor or ...

This may have been posted in a thread a while back, but thought I'd include it here as well. Stourhead House gardens, England.

We may have to agree to disagree on the relevance of this with respect to real world usage of these images, particularly as it would impact even decent sized enlargements, Vic.  The noise you see ...

Oh, for heavens sake... "destroy any small detail" at ISO 800. Please. I shoot birds with a boatload of fine detail at ISO3200 under certain conditions, and there is ton of small detail, remaining ...

Thank you!