Alois

I think that yes, it is, noise, but , as far as noise goes , in my judgement, it is not excessive under the circumstances.
 
If that bothers you however there are softwares which act as reducing noise, although possibly your settings could be adjusted ( but I am not sure that a much better results would be obtainable) to influence that outcome somewhat.
 
Patrick FR regularly posts on his blog things like these
 
http://www.fujirumors.com/expires-soon-save-72-on-denoise-pro-and-remove-all-forms-of-image-noise/

Micro 4/3 sensor and ISO 1250, I would expect this level of noise. I limit iso to 800 with my Lumix if I want to retain fine detail.
 
With Fuji perhaps iso 3200 can be ok, unless you have the new medium format Fuji.

To me it looks like there's some bad jpeg compression exasperating things, which is very strange given that the image is 1.4MB.

Greetings,
 
I have written to Fuji asking them about when the 80mm macro will be released, but they are not replying to my mails. Does anybody here have any inside information as to when the lens will be released? The fact that Fuji, after all these years, still haven't come up with a 1:1 macro lens is getting to me.
 
HELP!