synthesaur

The jpegs from the xt2 are just horrid as if taken with a cell phone. Flat and cartoonish.. Classic chrome is lifeless compared to xt1's. Here is classic chrome @ 1600 SOOC XT1 shot: And here are some SOOC images from xt2 @ 400 @800

And these are @ 6400 with no noise reduction, just bumped contrast. I will upload a few from my xt2 later...The files form it do not look "alive" even at 800..

Here are a few shots from xt1 first 3 iso 3200, straight conversion from raw:

I would buy it if it had a proper manual lens with real range finder. Otherwise it is just an expensive toy.

Yes, that's the worst part of the design. I hated that flimsy and after awhile gritty feel of that focusing ring. Unacceptable on that expensive camera. I wish in the next incarnation the focusing ring would feel as solid and smooth as it is on my old canonet.

Yep, 35mm f1.4 is a slow clunker compared to newer lenses, but the images are simply superb.

Thank you. I do seem to really prefer the results from the 16mp sensor myself. It has some "film-like" magic that I am in vain trying to find in this new camera. It is bewildering to me that so many people praise the new sensor so much. I am trying to find reasons to keep it but more and more get disappointed with the results. Check out this image shot at iso 5000 on xt1 with not noise reduction applied, I can't get this on the new xt2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35210521@N03/30636578161/in/dateposted-public/ At 100% in lightroom it is very clean, flickr isn't showing it.

Since i bought the XT2 something has been bugging me. I find that the files even at iso 400 are pretty noisy. My old Xt1 even at higher iso produced very clean images. Also the JPEGs are just too "plastic" looking, too smoothed or something. I used to love classic chrome on xt1 but I cant stand it on xt2 now. Sometimes the shadows are too dark....image looks cartoonish. Can't figure it out.

High ISO jpegs are still much better from my old Canon 6D. Fuji's low light jpg's look like cheap camera shots, noisy and all smeared. The new XP2 and XT2 have a several year old Sony sensor... They should have gone a FF way from the start.. A full frame sensor at 16mp would have been a monster killer.. So, yes if you want efficient camera to do (typical) weddings etc, Fuji may not be considered a pro camera. For casual and street shooting it is great. I've had x100s, xt1, xp2 and now xt2... After having shot with the xt2 I realize that i overpaid for it, the camera is not much better than its predecessor...

That's one of the reasons I am selling the xt2 and going back to xt1 I find that "battery saving feature" a huge nuisance that interferes with my work flow..

same in xp2, nothing you can do about it..