Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
Lee Saxon wrote:
He claims these pixels are large enough that they didn\'t feel whatever performance boosts they get from X-Trans on the little sensors were not needed and so they opted to simplify the camera\'s processing pipeline. I\'m not sure that makes a whole ton of sense to me.
They didn\'t carry the X-trans CFA over to the new GFX because it doesn\'t really work in practice - the benefits are slim and outweighed by the artifiacts than can occur and the difficulty in working with industry standard software.
Fuji have a long history of creating sensors which are different for the sake of being different, starting with the \"SuperCCD\" with hexagonal pixels, offering some theoretical resolution advantage that really just generated soft 6MP images from a 3MP sensor.
The fact the camera is larger than full frame and mirrorless makes it different enough - their only competitor is Hasselblad, and they ought to be able to undercut them on price whilst offering a wider selection of lenses (Fuji are a much bigger company).
Sep 23, 2016 at 10:22 AM
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