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 p.40 #8 · p.40 #8 · Pre-orders open! Sony A7R III and FE 24-105mm f/4 OSS lens! | |
Steve Spencer wrote:
Phillipe, one thing that likely improved, perhaps a fair bit, is the jpeg processing in the new camera. I wouldn't be surprised if jpegs are much nicer. We will have to wait to compare RAWs, however, before we know if there is a real improvement in IQ.
Steve, who am I to argue with you and Fred that Sony didn't improve the JPEG engine? 
That said, I am not put off by that possibility, because what I am seeing in the admittedly (very) few shots I am going by is something I can't get out of my II, RAW or not. And I don't expect that even an improved JPEG can be more subtle than a properly processed RAW. On this limited sample, had someone asked me what camera these pics came out of, I would have said: X1-D, a camera that renders tones, colors, transitions, subtle gradations really well IMHO, and quite a bit better than a II, even a II with superb glass. Another (equally gauche) way of putting it is that the III looks to me less "electronic" than the II. And I'll freely admit that I have a bee in my bonnet about this. Why else am I schlepping heavy lenses every day?
I'll wait a bit to see if this is real, in which case Sony will have done a great job in an un-flashy, unspectacular way, or if they did a Canon 5D III.
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