X-T20 skin tone issue

[vttai84]

hi everyone, 

This pic i shot with x-t20 and 56 1.2 , everything is allright, except skin when i zoom it (this is raf file), is this 'worm effect' or 'wax skin effect', anyone facing this problem and are there any solution to fix it ?

 

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[Arthur]

Looks to me like white balance doesn't jive with the light source. Shifted to blue.

[vttai84]

ok. the arrangement of skin details look like as square, you can zoom it and see moving of it. it does not look natural.

ps: i opened raf file in photoshop camera raw

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Given the structure of the X-Trans CFA I can imagine that you're looking at demosaicing artifacts in the squarish pattern that you're seeing. X-Trans is more prone to artifacts in the demosacing process than a Bayer array, but you must understand that all demosaicing of CFAs produces artifacts -- no option exists not to do that and at 527.3% magnification no option exists not to see them. Just remember that at 527.3% magnification you may also be seeing artifacts created by the software enlarging your image to that size and/or an interaction between those artifacts and the demosaicing artifacts that you can no longer really see because of that interaction. 

 

Look at the photo on screen at 100% magnification. Does it look OK?

[Scott Grant]

Or look at it at 33% considering that is what it will look like in print!  

[zippo]

I was facing the same problem. The worms doesn't bother me that much because they were only visible in a huge magnification. But the skin color was awful. I bought a Colorchecker and did some test shots of different light-situations. Since then you can choose the profile which matches the situation of your photo in Lightroom.

After some months with the X-T20, I work mostly with one profile (matches the most situations).

 

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[vttai84]

mag_artifact.jpg

 

Given the structure of the X-Trans CFA I can imagine that you're looking at demosaicing artifacts in the squarish pattern that you're seeing. X-Trans is more prone to artifacts in the demosacing process than a Bayer array, but you must understand that all demosaicing of CFAs produces artifacts -- no option exists not to do that and at 527.3% magnification no option exists not to see them. Just remember that at 527.3% magnification you may also be seeing artifacts created by the software enlarging your image to that size and/or an interaction between those artifacts and the demosaicing artifacts that you can no longer really see because of that interaction.

 

Look at the photo on screen at 100% magnification. Does it look OK?

yah it look ok at 100%

 

 

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[vttai84]

I was facing the same problem. The worms doesn't bother me that much because they were only visible in a huge magnification. But the skin color was awful. I bought a Colorchecker and did some test shots of different light-situations. Since then you can choose the profile which matches the situation of your photo in Lightroom.

After some months with the X-T20, I work mostly with one profile (matches the most situations).

 

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wow , great ! which profile in lightroom you used mostly ?

 

 

 

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[brown]

Switching from a bayer to an x-trans sensor got me in this situation too. I tought there was something wrong , especially with my high iso images. I found that sharpening without using the 'detail' slider too much is the key. I rarely go up 10 on it. And I still get sharpen the image pretty good. When you open a raf files in lightroom or camera raw the slider is by default at 25 so it's more noticeable. And, most important, I got myself to stopped doing extreme ''pixel peeping'' Now I'm pretty happy with my pictures!