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bobby350z wrote:
Agree with Dan on this high noise issue. GFX went from 50MP to 100MP and high ISO improved quite a bit.
To add to this...
I have several benchmarks along the way from my first digital camera (an Apple QuickTake way back in the 1990s) to today. My. first "testing-the-waters" DSLR, back when I was contemplating a move from (decades of photography with) film to digital for real was a Canon XT, a 8MP APS-C camera. Compared to what we use today, the noise was awful — significant at anything above the lowest ISO, limited DR, lots of color noise. Next up was a 12MP 5D. Technically, the photo site density was somewhat similar to that of the XT, but the noise performance was much improved — image quality at lowest ISO was excellent, and I generally didn't have to apply NR except to very dark areas of images with large DR.
From there I moved to a 20MP 5DII. Despite almost doubling the number of photo sites, the noise situation improved to the point that I felt confident about shooting (landscapes and long-exposure night photography) at 100-400 ISO and only had to apply minor NR at 400. I could go even higher when necessary, assuming that I as willing to do heavier work in post.
Next up was a 50MP 5DsR. Even though this camera more than doubled the number of photo sites, it managed noise at least a bit better than the 5DII, meaning that I got the extra resolution at (less than) zero cost in terms of noise. I use the camera for all kinds of photography, even for photography birds in low light situations, where I'll often shoot at 1600. This certainly requires NR, but the results are better than what I would have gotten at 1600 on the 6DII. (I occasionally even use 3200 and 6400 with this kind of subject.)
In Fujifilm terms I have only two points of comparison — the 16MP sensor of the original xE1 (my "test case" camera from Fujifilm) an the 24MP XPro2. That little 16MP sensor was really a good performer, and it served me well. But the 24MP sensor is even better in noise and DR terms, plus it increased the number of photo sites by 50%.
Dan
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