RustyBug wrote: gdanmitchell wrote:
However, in this case, a (the?) major point of using the larger 102MP sensor is ostensibly to achieve various kinds of technical image quality superiority over smaller formats.
16 bit color + DR bump vs. 14 bit color.
Many will discount this, but that's the attraction for my "superior IQ" over smaller formats. The 102 MP isn't a main attractant, but, since it does offer crop potential to the fixed lens (aka my Q2 on steroids with better color DR in post).
Granted, Q3 and M11 are in the realm of consideration, as is the Hassy and SL3 for gains over my Q2 (in terms of color IQ). Kinda splits the diff between a Hassy and a Q.
Fuji has entered the conversation, so it's at least worth exploring ...sort of along the lines of your "going slow" thing, etc.
It is that old “balance of pluses and minuses” thing, accompanied by the eternal “how much difference does this actually make?” question.
Sure, if all else is equal, why not have more bit depth in the files. In extreme post processing situations you might get a marginal advantage from that sometimes.
But I still come back to the underlying dissonance. If the technical minutiae of sensor performance is so critical, then how is it that the reduction in IQ from rather radical cropping is a better solution that using a lens that better matches the desired framing? Or, if the technical minutiae are not that important, why not use a smaller and more versatile camera?
I’ve been thinking more about how I feel about the RF recently. While considering how I might write about it (somewhere else) i realized that it is important to acknowledge its strengths and weaknesses. As a piece of photographic technology it is impressive in several ways. I think it is also successful from a pure design perspective. And, of course, it is impressive to put such a sensor into such a relatively small camera.
There are, in my view, a few technical misfires, too. But I won’t go into those here. Again.
But the main issue for me is somewhat illustrated by your desire to both have the better technical specs… and surrender the advantages of them in the face of real photographic needs. To be sure, it can be a fine camera for a certain subset of camera buyers. However, there are problematic dissonances in the thing — in particular the expectation of outstanding technical performance combined with the need to accept some fairly significant compromises of that very thing.
Mar 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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