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p.3 #1 · X-T5 for former owners of the 26MP X-Trans - do you notice the dynamic range reduction?
gyoung143 wrote:
If we take the figures for Xpro3 and Xt4 I suppose that the level of accuracy of those figures is at least + or - 0.02, and probably more. No reason surely those two should differ, unless IBIS affects it!!! And even the full frame "only' 24mpx Zf is so little better as to be irrelevant in normal use.
Gerry
Yeah, Good luck seeing the difference in 10.42 vs 10.45 is any kind of real world use. I suppose you could say the older ones are 1/3 stop better in general use, across ISO's but even that sounds pretty small imo, and you could generally reduce iso 1/3 stop
And if you use the max DR ISO setting, there is basically no difference between the X-T5 and X-Pro 3 in Bill Claff's tests. Less than 1/20 of a stop!
p.3 #2 · X-T5 for former owners of the 26MP X-Trans - do you notice the dynamic range reduction?
I was also trying to see the best and had to go back to how I'm taking photos and using my gear.
I'm coming from an x-pro2 and was looking at x-t5. I only have 3 lenses for it and am looking to "upgrade" the sensor for lower light higher ISO shots. I looked at Sony (a7rc/a7c ii), Nikon zf and am now deciding to move to Fuji x-t5 and x100vii (and now maybe GFX100rf). Key thing here were 2 main points. I found that my last travel trip I used a 23mm or 35mm prime (x-pro2 doesn't have IBIS) so I wasn't needing a lot of variability for lenses (i did shoot street, travel, landscape mainly). Sony and Nikon would have been ok but much bigger in terms of size/weight of the camera/ lenses.
The second point I found is my use of The film simulations. Very rapidly I found a lot of enjoyment but also taking photos and varying the film simulation for SOOC photos. I typically won't edit a photo and use it right from the camera (but shoot raw just in case). I feel nikon and sony (i'm former nikon shooter) would mean having more workflow to edit images.
p.3 #3 · X-T5 for former owners of the 26MP X-Trans - do you notice the dynamic range reduction?
jturn00 wrote:
I was also trying to see the best and had to go back to how I'm taking photos and using my gear.
I'm coming from an x-pro2 and was looking at x-t5. I only have 3 lenses for it and am looking to "upgrade" the sensor for lower light higher ISO shots. I looked at Sony (a7rc/a7c ii), Nikon zf and am now deciding to move to Fuji x-t5 and x100vii (and now maybe GFX100rf). Key thing here were 2 main points. I found that my last travel trip I used a 23mm or 35mm prime (x-pro2 doesn't have IBIS) so I wasn't needing a lot of variability for lenses (i did shoot street, travel, landscape mainly). Sony and Nikon would have been ok but much bigger in terms of size/weight of the camera/ lenses.
The second point I found is my use of The film simulations. Very rapidly I found a lot of enjoyment but also taking photos and varying the film simulation for SOOC photos. I typically won't edit a photo and use it right from the camera (but shoot raw just in case). I feel nikon and sony (i'm former nikon shooter) would mean having more workflow to edit images.
I’m not a SOOC kind of photographer (I prefer to get the look I want in post) and I’m not a fan of the film simulations for the same reason, so I won’t address that.
I did move from the XPro-2 to the XT-5, and I am very happy with the change. I liked the XPro-2 quite a bit, but did not see the Xpro line moving forward.
I have done a lot of travel and street photography with my /fujifilm APS-C systems over the past dozen years — that’s the main reason that I augmented me full frame gear from another manufacturer with the Fujiflm system. Most often I use the 27mm f/2.8 pancake on the XT5, as I did on the XPro-2. In urban environments the f/2.8 aperture is almost always large enough, though I also sometimes use the 23mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4, and 90mm f/2.
The 40MP sensor of the XT5 is at least as good as the 24M sensor in the Xpro2 — I actually think it is a bit better in low light. The addition of IBIS helps quite a bit in low light with these non-stabilized lenses.
Is it the very best low light system in the whole world? Not likely. If you go with certain larger, more expensive full frame systems you can get even better high ISO performance. But do you need that? At the expense of a new, larger system? For me, the answer has been “no.”
