Tariq Gibran wrote:
Mitch, this idea that a bayer filtered camera without an AA filter is somehow allowing \"greater fidelity to the image cast by the lens\", as Sean says is dubious since the lens does not project the maze patterns or the spotty luminosity found in moire. The reverse argument could be just as well made that the AA filter renders the scene more faithful as captured by the lens because, in most cases, it eliminates these artifacts which were not projected by the lens in the first place. Anyway, unless Fuji has somehow cracked the moire code with their new filter array, one must choose their poison with B&W sensitive sensors - sharper images with possible artifacts that cannot always be corrected after the fact OR softer images that require sharpening.
Tariq, this is exactly what I find so unbalanced about the whole discussion in this thread as to be removed from reality, particularly as far as the GXR-M is concerned — more so than for the M8/M9. When I started using the GXR-M, with the very first few pictures I took with the old DR-Summicron I was blown away at how much this camera transmits the properties of the lens, I could recognize characteristics in the image that I was familiar with from having shot with this lens on film. That is the big thing about the GXR-M. The fact that sometimes the GXR-M can produce moiré is a very minor thing, as it happens so little — at least in my experience and apparently also in that of Henrik (kosmoskatten), The statements here on the artifacts of the GXR-M are simply unbalance, implicitly setting the 500 pound gorilla in the room (resolution, clarity and color accuracy) against the mouse (moiré) — there is a fairy tale about a mouse winning, but that\'s against an elephant, not a gorilla.
