Fujifilm GFX100 II: Now has a 4-Shot Pixel Shift
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The Fujifilm GFX100 II has a 4-shot pixel shift mode, which Fujifilm calls “accurate color” mode.
Four-shot pixel shift mode is absent on my GFX100S. Perhaps a firmware update will change that? Firmware for GFX100S still at v2.02 as of this writing.
It captures 4 images (slowly, too slowly), and saves them. On the computer, you then use the godawful (no drag and drop!) to turn them into a DNG file. There is no in-camera way to do this AFAIK.
But there is a big gotcha, which presumably stems from Fujfilm’s perspective that this is an “accurate color” capture: all lens corrections are applied including distortion correction.
And that’s the rub: with distortion correction doing its stretching/resampling of pixels, the sharpness gains of pixel shift appear to be mostly lost. Or at least I could not tell the difference compared to a single frame processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
* Decision made, now it’s about figuring out how to get it done (cost).
