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Good post, thanks for sharing your experiences OP.
/rant on (because I used to own one in a love/hate relationship)
The S5 pro was such a good "idea" for a camera/sensor, but, like all fuji digital cameras, completely useless as a professional platform (post 2007). The camera had unusable RAW's for years after its introduction because software developers needed time to figure out what the hell Fuji was doing. Sound familiar?
For all its bonuses like skin tone, DR, and fuji color... who the eff is going to process 24MB RAF images for a 10mpix equivalent image? Shot to shot buffer is also non-existent when using RAW on this camera, just garbage, you get 3 shots with the fastest CF cards, then be prepared to get a cup of coffee before you take your next shot.
Bumping the in camera dynamic range to 400% via menus and shooting jpg only made this camera more pleasant than its peers (until about 2009), due to SOOC jpgs being the best I have ever seen to this day. JPG also gets you some buffer space so you can actually shoot a series. RAW, however, is not worth it for this camera, just too much work, and ACR does a terrible job (other RAW developers are better). IMHO DR is matched by any modern Sony sensor (you have to expose completely differently, but it is no better/worse).
/rant
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