Fujifilm GFX Blows Lab Samples "The Best Lab Images We Have Ever Seen” – Imaging Resource

[Patrick FR]

Fujifilm GFX Blows Away Pentax 645z, Canon 5DSR and Sony A7RII: “The Best Lab Images We Have Ever Seen” – Imaging Resource

 

http://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-gfx-blows-away-pentax-645z-canon-5dsr-sony-a7rii-best-lab-images-ever-seen-imaging-resource/

[flysurfer]

No surprise if you ask me. I have a bunch of reservations about the GFX, but IQ isn't one of them. This beast is as ISOless as they come, dynamic range is through the roof. A 4 stop push in Lightroom from ISO 100 to 1600 virtually gives the same result as a native ISO 1600 shot of the same scene with the same shutter speed and aperture. You simply won't be able to spot any meaningful difference.

 

I have made ISO samples from 50 to 102400 with 4 different RAW converters (Lightroom 6.9 beta, Silkypix Pro 8, Iridient 3 and the built-in camera processor), and it's certainly short of amazing what Fuji's own processing extracts from this sensor. I reckon the new sensor wiring is responsible for a really low read noise output (hence the ISOless capabilities and unmatched DR). 

 

My research also shows that pretty much all RAW converters that claim GFX support need recalibration when it comes to extended ISO numbers (Lightroom is beta, so I'm not holding this against Adobe, but Silkypix and Iridient already claim official support).

 

My findings also show that RAWs can seemingly handle a healthy deal of overexposure compared to the in-camera JPEG, which means that you can extract even more DR if you manage to meet the sensor's actual saturation limit, which may well be 1 full stop above the JPEG highlight warning threshold in the camera's histogram and "blinkies" display. Of course, further tests are needed, but that's one reason why I'm flying to Malta Tuesday night.

 

I am writing up a small article in German (Fuji X Secrets) and in English (X-Pert Corner) that should help illustrate my findings. 

[milandro]

sure, why should we be surprised that it prints well or better than other cameras? 

 

It would be news if it didn’t! 

 

And it is very good that someone actually made print comparisons ( I remember that I was ridiculed to have asked precisely that when the X-pro-2 was introduced, I wanted to see if there was a practical advantage, not a theoretical or high performance monitor one).

 

I suppose this isn’t the last of the Giant Fuji’s that we are going to see and after the introduction of a lens system another body will come with yet improved this that and the other and also then someone will show us that now everyone (?) will be able to print XXXL pictures , which, as we all know, are printed every day in their millions around the world (  )!

[flysurfer]

What we need is a mirrorless MF sensor with fast readout and PDAF areas. Everything else it pretty much already there.

[milandro]

what the world needs now...     is a great song!

 

 

I propose an addition to the lyrics

 

"Oh Lord , do we need another ’n larger camera?

There are cameras and film cameras everywhere.

Enough to last all of us till the end of times.  "

 

 

Sure, one more camera, one more phone, one more computer, one more car... we don’t want to stop THAT!

 

Here we go round the mulberry bush the mulberry bush the mulberry bush  ... fade out!

Edited March 4, 2017 by milandro

[Aswald]

One up for GFX50 and Stacey Kent!