MaxBerlin wrote:
hiepphotog wrote
MaxBerlin wrote
Philber - the worst issue I've seen documented is the 'orange peel' and the banding and pixelation around red/green transition areas.
The magenta/green concentric circles can probably be overlooked but still not encouraging. Is this only in the JPEG. I don't have the subscription to the mirrorless section but it seems Lloyd meant the 8-bit lossy compression. That would mean JPEG. It's interesting to know if it also happens in RAW, and I wonder why no one has noticed that before.
And RAW from Sony is compressed, but lossless. This is the same with any Sony cam I think, and I have not seen anyone complains about that. Happens in both raw and jpeg from what I can tell. Even the shading comp 'on' barely mitigates it.
'Lossless' is a marketing term I think. Others (Sigma/Nikon are recording files sizes over 60mb) there is some information being lost.
So why don't you take some shots with tons of detail, process the image, print it large and see if anything is lost for yourself? You are even questioning yourself of what you read, or thought you read about the compression being jpeg only or also in raw. Seems like an almost definite maybe...some solid info to be making purchasing decisions on.