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I was reviewing some more of my shots from my recent trip, and I noticed something in one shot that at first I thought was trouble, but turned out to be shocking. Here are two images.... Here's the first - I purposely used the top of the spire to shield the sun, to allow it to halo the top as part of the composition.... When I zoomed in to see about cropping it some, I noticed spots, and thought, "wow the lens or sensor got REALLY dirty, and that's a shame. Wasted shot." I looked at the other images immediately after and before it, and there were no spots, so I was naturally confused. Zoomed in... That's when I realized, those aren't dust spots or bad pixels, those are... STARS. The dynamic range was wide enough that it could pick up the faint starlight that was mixing in with the sunlight, stars that are always in the sky, but normally invisible due to the intensity of the sun. I am impressed with the ability of the sensor in the X-T5 to resolve these details. post edit - the compression when posting the image ruins the details, sadly. I may post another one REALLY zoomed in to show it better....

Maybe this is better....

@jerryy I looked at the EXIF file, and noticed something that maybe you'd explain - The "INITIAL DATE AND TIME OF CAPTURE" time stamp (I was in Spain, but the camera settings were left on NYC/east coast TZ - lol) is notably different than at the bottom, "FILE TIMESTAMP" that's BEFORE the image capture datestamp. All I can think of is WTF, did I discover time travel? I have no idea why they are different, as in before the image date. It was copied to an iPad for backup storage, but that was on accurate local Spain time when I did it, and that TZ is forward of NYC. Confused.

HDR is what some folks are referring to when the DR (dynamic range) setting is changed from 100 to 200 or higher, the shadows are boosted and the highlights are lowered. As long as you stay at DR 100, the files will be regular sized and un-affected. The DR setting is what I believe itchy is asking about. p.s. Shooting in IR comes up every now and then, maybe your and @Ninon’s collaboration can pull together some info into one place (hope, hope).

Thanks for that Jerry. I hadn't messed with that setting, so I'd assume it was at a default. I opened the file with Fuji's RAW Studio, and this was the EXIF it's reporting, is this what you'd expect to see? I see dynamic range stating "100%" The articles you linked all seem related to HDR, and embeddment of extra images - I don't shoot HDR (not really interested in it), so it seems a normal RAW file isn't really affected by that setting?

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Molto, molto interessante, EDP. Questa è una grande capacità di gamma dinamica. Per me X-t5 è la migliore fotocamera con h2, dell'annuncio mondiale aps-c con il miglior rapporto prezzo/prestazioni

Wow! Beautiful! I love iR images! What lens(es) were you using? I’d also like to know more about the converted camera.

Wonderful! Welcome to the forum.

FHD240 is particularly bad on this X-H2S. What is this elongated noise pattern in the highlights at ISOs greater than 1500--impossible to get rid of with temporal noise reduction in Davinci Resolve. Probably not going to happen as it is most likely a function of the stacked sensor. Improvements must be made ISO adjustments.. I don't really care what they are as long as changing ISO does not obscure the histogram. Who at FujiFilm thought this was a good idea? They need to be terminated! How about when you press the ISO button (or any other assignable button), you can adjust the ISO with the front command wheel something like X-T3/T4 without obscuring the histogram? Video autofocus does not require a Kaizen change--small incremental improvement. We have been getting small--very small improvements for years while other companies have been making far greater advancements. What we need is Kaikaku--radical change.. If there are multiple faces in and area, face detect jumps around from face-to-face like a whore conducting her love life. Same thing with subject detect. If there is mildly complicated background FujiFilm continues to finds birds in the bushes that do not exist spoiling the clip. How about a firmware change that once you press record, the subject that was detected stays detected until the subject moves out of frame or you stop recording. FujiFilm needs to get some engineers who see things differently and can design a world class autofocus system. They have the hardware to do it. But does FujiFilm have the will? No more of this insect and drone detect BS and calling it an improvement! Who do they think they are fooling? Just the FR crowd. LOL. While I am on a roll. How about a smoother IBIS. The X-H2S does not represent much change from the X-T4. Plus, all the other things the previous posters suggested.