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justruss wrote:
I'll preface this by saying i) I'd rather not let this thread dissolve into a religious debate on X-Trans (there are plenty of other places for that), and ii) we don't really know what THIS sensor is going to produce along with EXR II processor until it gets out into the wild.
That said, short answer: No, JPEGs from my X-E1 are not perfect. Nor are RAWs. Neither are the same from my 5D2 (for comparison), but for other reasons.
Longer answer: Expecting perfection is a losing game. And I love my X-E1 as I do my 5D2. The OOC JPEGS, and RAWs processed with some of the software out in the wild, are reliably good, artifact free (or near-impossible to find), and high resolution. But yeah, I can find that funky stuff going on in SOME cases at the boundaries of resolution at full or beyond full magnification in certain types of shots. Just like I can find the miraculous 5D2 banding-- though if you look in yesterday's major newspaper travel section you just might see some dark shots of northern lights and other images that I shot with my trusty 5D2 that nobody is complaining about. I expect you'll see a few shots from my X-E1 in that same general space in the coming months/year. You'll also find similar work of mine online and in high circulation, high quality, glossy, photo-heavy magazines...
So, YES, the stuff you've heard about the X-Trans funkiness, in the first-gen sensors at least, is absolutely real. You can find it. It appears to be impossible to totally eliminate no matter the output method/software-- but at the same time almost never a serious issue for screen, print, or other output at any normal size (and by normal I mean up to double-truck, glossy, high-res printing).
I don't consider it a major concern. Not anywhere as frustrating-- to me-- as the slowness/missing of AF in dark/backlit situations.
And, as usual with these things, I expect incremental improvements from software/processing alone. And significant improvements from each generation. I bet this X100s sensor/processor HW is a major improvement on my current X-E1 in that regard (AND in AF). I sure hope it is. And I hope that filters down to future X-E1 hardware releases over the next years.
Right now, I'm simply using JPEG output from the camera because it's damn good. And I haven't used an OOC JPEG from my 5D2 (or any other Canon)... ever. I've tried, just never been satisfied. So that surely counts for something....Show more →
No I don't want this to turn into a religious debate either.
I know, I know, no sensor is perfect, but I'm referring specifically to the colour and pattern artefacts that are quite common in the RAWs. I understand that some will be more 'sensitive' to other sensor traits, and hence will live happily with the X Trans, but this is quite important to me - so much so that I'm going to trade a Nikon D600 for something else, because, compared to what I've owned before, it's a bloody moire machine. My bar on this is the Sony A900, whose sensor, although noisier at high ISO and worse performing than this generation on the measuring lab, is as close to an artefact free sensor as it gets, IMHO - little colour and pattern moire, no perceptible jaggies, no edge moire. I prefer noise to artefacts and a slightly 'thicker' AA to what I get in the D600, for instance, which is designed for resolution at the expense of some moire (too much for my taste).
Would you say that OOC JPEGs are still better than what can be achieved from RAW or are they now on a par?
What I like in the X100s is its size and simplicity (fixed lens, physical dials and rings for everything that's important and straightforward operation with no 3D sweep nonsense and whatnot) allied to the fact that most 1st generation complaints have been addressed. I would happily live with the 12MP sensor for this type of cam, but I like the 'operational' improvements in X100s.
Edited on Jan 07, 2013 at 07:09 AM · View previous versions
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