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    ADOBE Improves Detail Rendering for FUJIFILM X-Trans RAW Files in Camera RAW 11.2

    in Fuji X Rumors & News

    Posted

    It appears to be a bad copy of Brian's popular X-Transformer plug-in.

    Here's a comparison: https://www.flickr.com/gp/ricopfirstinger/Qm91fG

    Drawbacks of the Adobe version:

    • Adobe's DNGs are absurdly large (a lossless compressed RAF of 29 MB becomes an Adobe DNG of 126 MB. X-Transformer manages the same with only 67 MB despite full RGB demosaicing).
    • Adobe's DR issue that's related RAW shadow pushing (especially 12 bit RAFs) is even amplified, while X-Transformer perfectly solves it.
    • There are sometimes more artifacts instead of fewer.
    • There are color shifts.

    Is X-T2 Dynamic Range on par with FX?

    in Fuji X-T2 / Fuji X-T20

    Posted

    Depends on what you compare it to. Shot noise: obviously not, read noise: yes or no, depending on where you come from. Since DR is a combination of both (with minimal read noise and high ISO-invariance as a prerequisite), your mileage will vary. 

     

    For example, even the entry-level Fujifilm X-A3 matches the DR of a ultra-high-end Canon EOS 5DS R landscape camera, but it can't beat a Nikon D750/810/850.

    Fuji X-E3 rumors

    in Fuji X Rumors & News

    Posted · Edited by flysurfer

    After a few weeks of contemplation, I have decided to replace my X-T20 with the new X-E3 as my travel system camera. While I miss the tilting screen of the T20, I prefer the speed and convenience of the E3's focus stick. All things considered, I'm faster with it, and I'm used to working with it from my X-Pro2, X-T2, X100F and GFX 50S. Unlike the tilt screen, the stick it something I use with pretty much every shot, so I benefit from it all the time. 

     

    I also like the superior firmware of the E3, because it includes all those improvements from the two recent X-T2 firmware updates, such as an AF ALL mode, a super-small AF frame, putting ISO on a command dial, up to 15 minutes of T exposure time, separate Shutter-AE/AF settings for AF-S and AF-C, etc. etc.

     

    Finally, there are the color histogram with live overexposure warning blinkies that I use all the time in my GFX, and the much faster/better AF tracking algo (which will only come to the T2 in November and who knows when to the T20). Price is identical with the X-T20, so the E3 it is. 

    Fuji X-E3 rumors

    in Fuji X Rumors & News

    Posted · Edited by flysurfer

    I guess my wife will love the new design. She doesn't care for D-pad and function buttons, and prefers to use the camera in auto mode. But my requirements are clearly different from hers.

     

     

    Yes, it's clearly a model targeting female users by design.

    Fuji X-E3 rumors

    in Fuji X Rumors & News

    Posted · Edited by flysurfer

    I am waiting eagerly for your English or German (whichever comes first) hands-on report, with your impressions of the touch screen plus joystick combination! [emoji4]

     

     

    It's a mixed bag.

     

    E3 is a T20 with different design, but Fuji is currently withholding the firmware to make the T20 on par with the E3: no new AF system, no color histogram planned for the November update. That's unfortunate.

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