X-Trans III: The waxy skin is gone

[flesix]

For everyone who did not like the the waxy skin in high ISO SOOC jpegs of the X-Trans II cameras, there's good news: It's gone in the X-Trans III.

 

If you like to check for yourself, I added two X-Pro2 shots to the comparison I once did between the X-E2 and X-E1:

 

https://www.flickr.com/gp/flesix/xK059p

[Ektachrome]

I wonder if the problem with 'watercolour' effect has been mitigated on fine grasses, etc., too? In Lightroom, anyway, never found it so much of a problem in Capture One, or Iridient, with the right settings (NR turned right down, etc.).

[andyfromboston]

X-Trans is still there so whatever Adobe is doing wrong with the demosaic / NR / sharpening is probably still an issue. But it looks like for the camera's internal JPG processor, Fuji has been working on noise handling quite a bit, which would explain why these high ISO textures are so improved.

[superpanda]

did you still have to lower noise reduction to -4 or -2? Or is it set to zero?

[MrT]

did you still have to lower noise reduction to -4 or -2? Or is it set to zero?

 

 

I would be interested in this. As soon as I got my X-Pro2 I set the NR to -4. I have my X100T set to -2 (as far as it goes). But perhaps -4 isn't necessary...

[flesix]

did you still have to lower noise reduction to -4 or -2? Or is it set to zero?

 

 

I didn't try -4. But you can see for yourself, there is one sample with -2 and one with 0 in my set.