Official nice letter to Fujifilm

[Madeus]

Dear Fujifilm,

As a long time member of Fujifilm camera community, and long-time experienced owner of Fujifilm gear (since S5pro untill now), after long range discussion with Fujifilm XT camera users in my neighborhood (after XT50 hit the marked) we have got following conlusion and sugestion:

Dear Fujifilm. It would be extremely exccellent to have camera in aps-c format in balance between 26 and 40 Mpix.

We suggest 36 Mpix sensor BASED on legendary unrepeatable XT-1 picture climat and quality, with modern firmware and standard classic XT body and size.

It will keep balance between file size, and resolution. We are sure, such a camera will become a great sucess on the market, and will fit every user.

Please concider Fujifilm this option, and we mean camera for Photographers.

We decided to publish our idea on forum, so it can stay visible to anyone, and maybe other comunity members around the world will suggest some interesiting add-ons.

Thank you and words of respect.

 

 

[jerryy]

Welcome to the forum.

1.) I hope that you will read this in the spirit that it is intended. In no way, shape or form do I intend to criticize what you are trying to accomplish, I realize that you are looking for support for what you want to see in cameras Fujifilm sells to us.

Please edit and re-write your letter. I know how easy it is being nervous and in a hurry while posting to a new forum, mistakes happen. I also realize you may be pasting a nicely written letter whose translation into English from another language got a bit garbled.

The people you are trying to reach probably are not influenced much by anything we post here, but maybe they are, so to make a better impression on them, make it easy for them to understand what you are wanting to say. Your letter has a lot of spelling mistakes, use a spell checker on your letter while editing. Your phrase "... legendary unrepeatable XT-1 picture climat and quality..." almost makes sense, but something got lost here, I do not understand what 'picture climat' is.

Your intended reader may wish to help you, but if they struggle too much to understand what you are saying, it is easier for them to pass it by, in favor of others' viewpoints.

2.) Where did you come up with the 36MP number from? Sometimes bumping up the resolution is good, but it comes at a cost. Here are two graphs from Photons To Photos illustrating what has happening as the MP have increased over time (The X-T5 stands in for the X-T50 because that information has not been released by P2P yet).

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More resolution can give you better detail and better cropping (for those rare times when cropping is needed because you did not have the right lens or the scene was just too tricky to get without cropping) but again there is a cost. These may seem counter-intuitive but consider replacing three pixels with five. You get more resolution and maybe more detail, but you can get more unwanted noise --- with three pixels your region had three noise sources, now it has five, actually we ended up with worse noise than before unless the individual pixel noise is vastly reduced. That noise reduction needs to be in hardware rather than software otherwise you get issues such as Sony's star-eater problem or Nikon's concentric circles problem -- you can look these up, they were software approaches to trying to fix noise issues at various ISO and time exposure settings. Also more resolution only for resolution's sake can end up costing you image detail because of diffraction issues which in turn soften your images.

Maybe something better to ask for would be things like better hardware noise reduction, more dynamic range, wider color spaces, etc.

Again, please understand, I am not trying to criticize what you are doing, but I think you will get a better response if you edit your letter.

Best wishes,

jerryy. 

[BobJ]

Of course, some of this is down to marketing. However, Fuji are restricted by what sensors are available to them. Fuji make or specify the filters that are positioned over the sensels but they do not make the silicon. There are very few manufacturers that do, because setting up the fabs is hugely expensive. Fuji use Sony, who are probably making the best available the moment, but that means that Fuji are bound by what Sony make. In any case the difference between 36mp and 40mp is too small to be significant. Finally, the question of resolution. Resolution is an area defined factor. To double the sensor resolution you have to have four times the number of pixels. So you can see that going from 26 to 40 makes sense. I guess that Fuji decided that their target buyers wanted more resolution. They had to do something to make the x-t5 different to the 4. Maybe Fuji could have offered a 26mp version of the x-t5, but because of differences in the electronics that would be expensive for them to do.

[jerryy]

These are the publicly available sensors that Sony has for sale(at this time of writing). Of course, what they privately offer to OEMs is, well, private:

https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/products/is/camera/index.html

 

Edited July 23, 2024 by jerryy