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you2 wrote:
I liked the second one quite a bit better than the first one due to the increase quality of the river (it was simply clearer and more 'depth' (not depth of field but i'm unsure of the word - more contrast? more tonal range?). Also the sky tone was better. Now for the question; is this due to the A7 sensor vs E2 or the lens or due to post processing ?
Hard to say, since I prefer the X-E2's rendering here by a good bit...the color is a lot better to me. Not sure. The X-E2 in that shot has a substantial resolution advantage due to the fact that the A7 is cropped, so I don't know if you'd see a full frame depth advantage there.
ceder wrote:
Great write up so far Jordan!
What about focusing speed outdoors and indoors in poor light?
The last portrait has some magenta spots in your sons face - was this a reflection?
Always hard to judge portrait-colors from mixed indoor light, but what about outdoors? Whats your feel about skin colors, JPG and lightroom-RAWs etc?
My current thoughts:
Focusing: I only have the FE 35/2.8 to test with, but in good light and even normal indoor light, it's very fast and accurate. No problems there at all. In dim light, it can hunt a bit and slows down, but is by no means bad.
Not sure about the magenta spots. I'd put it up to a preliminary Adobe profile in Lightroom, as I had the same issue with the X-E2 until I did a custom Lightroom profile...
As to overall image quality, I did some testing yesterday (in addition to regular shooting), and as a whole, the A7 image quality is outstanding. I did a noise head to head with the X-E2, and it was interesting: There was no noise advantage to the A7, even when reducing to the same size as the E2 files and compensating for the slightly more than 1/3 stop overstating of the X-E2's ISO (I shot the X-E2 at ISO 1600, the A7 at 1250, etc). Noise levels are largely the same. HOWEVER, the 24 MP sensor on the A7 and the slightly finer grain means that there is notably more detail in the A7 files, and they will be good for larger prints at all ISOs. Really impressive imaging in almost all respects. DR is outstanding, detail is fantastic, noise is well controlled.
The only downfall is color, where I think the A7 is nowhere near as good as the Fujis (or even Olympus). AWB is frankly pretty terrible, and out of camera in indoor light, AWB is extremely warm and there's some green cast to the images as well that I find offputting. I'm finding I need to tweak color a fair bit in post. Other than that, RAW file quality is outstanding.
JPEG, on the other hand, is a different story. I haven't shot a lot of JPEG yet, but what I have done has been decent, but certainly nowhere near exemplary, though more testing is needed here.
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