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2019-08-18 Some Fujifilm GFX100 Behaviors also Apply to the coming Sony 7R IV

2019-08-18 Image Quality: Fujifilm GFX100 vs Fujifilm GFX 50S/R

2019-08-17 Good Morning From 11700' near Patriarch Grove + Fujifilm GFX100 vs Fujifilm GFX 50S/R

2019-08-16 Reader Comment on Fujifilm GFX100: “High Praise Indeed”

2019-08-16 Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 R WR Focus Stacking Examples

2019-08-15 Fujifilm GF 120mm f/4 Macro R LM OIS WR Focus Stacking Examples

2019-08-14 Fujifilm GFX100: Best Ever Reward-to-Effort Ratio

2019-08-14 Fujifilm GF 32-64mm f/4 R WR Focus Stacking Examples

2019-08-11 Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR: Seems About Perfect for Many Landscape Scenes and Stacks Well

2019-08-09 Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR: Close-Range Focus Stacking

Fujifilm GFX 50R

Compact “rangefinder inspired” form factor to the GFX 50S sibling..

  1. Overview of Fujifilm GFX 50R

Ricoh GR

Razor sharp 28mm lens on APS-C sensor and outstanding usability and features..

  1. Shootout: Ricoh GR vs Sigma DP1 Merrill and Fujifilm X-E1 (Dilapidated Green House)
  2. Shootout: Ricoh GR vs Sigma DP1 Merrill and Fujifilm X-E1 (Bristlecone Graveyard)

Comparisons across format.

Can smaller sensor cameras compete with larger ones on any basis?.

  1. Shootout: Sony RX1 vs Sigma DP2 Merrill vs Fujifilm X-E1 (MTB)
  2. Shootout: Sigma DP1 Merrill vs Ricoh GR vs Fujifilm X-E1 (Dilapidated Green House)
  3. Shootout: Sigma DP1 Merrill vs Ricoh GR vs Fujifilm X-E1 (Bristlecone Graveyard)

Fujifilm X-E1

Compact sibling of the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

  1. Fujifilm X-E1 Overview
  2. File Size, Bit Depth
  3. Fujifilm X-E1 Usability
  4. Fujifilm X-E1 Behaviors That Kill Images
  5. Fujifilm X-E1 Focus Creep Kills Sharpness
  6. Where is Aperture Priority?
  7. Fujifilm X-E1 Size vs Sigma DP1 Merrill
  8. Fractal-like Artifacts: Dolls Still Life
  9. Fractal-like Artifacts COUNTERPOINT: Dolls Still Life
  10. Fractal-like Artifacts: The Close-Up View
  11. Aperture Series: 55mm (Dolls, X-E1)
  12. Examples: Bristlecone Graveyard at Dusk
  13. Shootout: Fujifilm X-E1 vs Rioch GR and Sigma DP1 Merrill (Dilapidated Green House)
  14. Shootout: Fujifilm X-E1 vs Rioch GR and Sigma DP1 Merrill (Bristlecone Graveyard)

Fujifilm X-Pro1

Interchangeable lenses on a 16MP APS-C sensor.

  1. Introduction (READ FIRST!)
  2. Color Bleed
  3. Digital Artifacts
  4. Fractal-like Artifacts: Yosemite Pines (ACR)
  5. Fractal-like Artifacts: Yosemite Pines — ACR vs Capture One Pro
  6. Fractal-like Artifacts: Cayenne and Moots at Dusk
  7. RAW Conversion Details (Adobe Camera RAW)
  8. Examples (Flowers and Food)
  9. Examples (Flowers and Food, Adobe Camera RAW Redo)
  10. RAW File vs JPEG Exposure (Flowers)
  11. Examples (Outdoors, Sea Otter MTB)
  12. Examples (Mosaic)
  13. Examples (Mosaic, ACR)
  14. Examples (Outdoors, Alpine)
  15. Examples (Shadow Detail and Noise)
  16. Aperture series ƒ/1.4 - ƒ/16, RAW vs JPEG
  17. Aperture series ƒ/1.4 - ƒ/16, RAW vs JPEG (SilkyPix)
  18. Aperture series ƒ/1.4 - ƒ/16, RAW vs JPEG (ACR)
  19. ISO series ISO 200 - 3200, JPEG vs RAW (ACR)
  20. RAW Conversion Details (SilkyPix)
  21. Autofocus Issues
  22. Conclusions
  23. Conclusions (Before ACR)

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Fujifilm's 24MP APS-C offering..

  1. Fujifilm X-Pro2 Overview
  2. Fujifilm XPro2 Raw File Format, Uncompressed and Compressed
  3. Usability Issues When Shooting
  4. Usability: In-Camera RAW to JPEG Conversion
  5. Adobe Camera Raw Settings (Sunlight)
  6. White Balance Assessment in Sunlight
  7. Color Balance: Why are X-Pro2 Images Tinted Green?
  8. Image Quality: Grid Artifacts
  9. Image Quality: Fractal-like Artifacts (Clay Pot)
  10. Comparing 7 Color and 5 Monochrome ACR Camera Profiles (Dolls)
  11. Night Shooting, Long Exposure, Night High-ISO Examples
  12. ACR vs XPro2: 7 Color and 5 Monochrome Camera Profiles Compared (Ranch Gate at Sunset)
  13. Raw Conversion: XPro2 vs SilkyPix vs Adobe Camera Raw vs Iridient Developer (Oil Pump)
  14. XPro2 ACROS Film Simulations vs Photoshop Black and White Options (Barn and Fence)
  15. XPro2 Monochrome 'Grain Effect' vs Photoshop Grain (Oil Pump)
  16. Range of Sharpening with a Variety of Subject Matter
  17. JPEG vs RAW SHOOTOUT: Fine Wood Detail in Green Barn
  18. JPEG vs RAW SHOOTOUT: Portrait Among The Flowers

Blog posts, reverse chronological

2019

2019-08-18 Some Fujifilm GFX100 Behaviors also Apply to the coming Sony 7R IV

2019-08-18 Image Quality: Fujifilm GFX100 vs Fujifilm GFX 50S/R

2019-08-17 Good Morning From 11700' near Patriarch Grove + Fujifilm GFX100 vs Fujifilm GFX 50S/R

2019-08-16 Reader Comment on Fujifilm GFX100: “High Praise Indeed”

2019-08-16 Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 R WR Focus Stacking Examples

2019-08-15 Fujifilm GF 120mm f/4 Macro R LM OIS WR Focus Stacking Examples

2019-08-14 Fujifilm GFX100: Best Ever Reward-to-Effort Ratio

2019-08-14 Fujifilm GF 32-64mm f/4 R WR Focus Stacking Examples

2019-08-11 Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR: Seems About Perfect for Many Landscape Scenes and Stacks Well

2019-08-09 Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR: Close-Range Focus Stacking

2019-08-07 Fujifilm GF 63mm f/2.8 R WR Fails on Fujifilm GFX100, Lens Totally Inoperable

2019-08-07 Fujifilm GF 100mm f/2 R LM WR: “Panoramic View of Tuolumne Meadows, Mt Conness, Mt Dana, Mt Gibbs at Dusk” (800 megapixels, GFX100)

2019-08-06 Fujifilm GFX100: Troubling Autofocus Errors, FOCUS BKT Problems

2019-08-06 Fujifilm GFX100: Focus Stacking Examples with Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4, Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8

2019-08-05 Fujifilm GFX100: those PDAF Pixels Make Me Wish I Could have a GFX100 Without Them

2019-08-04 Fujifilm GFX100: Stunning Image Quality, How to use the FOCUS BKT Feature for Focus Stacking, and About its Damaging Bugs

2019-08-04 Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 R WR Aperture Series: Tenaya Creek View to Half Dome (Fujifilm GFX100)

2019-08-01 Really Right Stuff L-Bracket for Fujifilm GFX100

2019-08-01 Fujifilm GFX100 Review: Field Shooting Soon

2019-08-01 Fujifilm GFX100 Charges Via Its USB-C Port Nicely with External Battery or Plugged Into Computer

2019-07-29 Fujifilm GFX100 Service Advisory: “Notification Regarding Potential Loosening of FUJIFILM GFX100 Side Shutter Release “Lock” Function (Vertical grip control lock)”

2019-07-27 Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR Aperture Series: Mosaic (Fujifilm GFX100)

2019-07-26 Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4 APO-Sonnar Aperture Series: Backyard Trees (Fujifilm GFX100)

2019-07-26 Fujifilm GFX100 Dynamic Range Graphs by Jim Kasson

2019-07-26 Fujifilm GFX100 BUG: Sets Mandatory Lens Correction Profile for Unknown Lenses

2019-07-26 Fujifilm GF 110mm f/2 R LM WR Aperture Series: Red Electric Cart (Fujifilm GFX100)

2019-07-25 Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4 APO-Sonnar: First Look at how it does adapted to the Fujifilm GFX100

2019-07-25 Fujifilm GFX100: Severe Autofocus Errors

2019-07-23 Fujifilm GFX100 and Lenses Firmware Updated, Software Engineering by Fujifilm Needs More Attention to Detail, Usability

2019-07-23 Fujifilm Focusing Issues in the Fujifilm GFX100 Have Existed for At Least 6 Years in Fujifilm X Series Also

2019-07-22 Shootout: Fujifilm GF 110mm f/2 R WR vs Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6: Mosaic with Unstable Lens Focus (Fujifilm GFX-100)

2019-07-22 Fujifilm GFX-100: ISO 50 vs 100, Sensor Transit Time, 16-bit vs 14-bit Capture, Unstable Lens Focus

2019-07-22 Fujifilm GF 110mm f/2 R LM WR Aperture Series: Tower at Night (Fujifilm GFX100)

2019-07-18 Fujifilm GFX-100 is Confoundingly Complicated

2019-06-26 Fujifilm GFX-100: Review Coming Soon

2019-05-23 Fujifilm GFX-100 Announced, Review Planned (updated with comments)

2019-03-19 Reprocessing Fujifilm GFX-50S Images with Moiré and Color Aliasing Issue using Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details

2019-01-30 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR Exmples: Lundy Lake Area (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-29 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR Aperture Series: Last Light on High Peaks (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-29 Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 R R WR Aperture Series: Last Old Cabin at Lundy Resort (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-27 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR Aperture Series: Painted Rock (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-27 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR Aperture Series: Headlight Closeup (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-24 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR: Making a 155-Megapixel Panorama “High Peaks Over May Lundy Mine” (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-20 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR: Making a 91-Megapixel Panorama “Winter Solstice Sunrise on Mt Whitney” (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-20 Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR Examples: Eureka Dunes (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-20 Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 Examples: Cerro Gordo (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2019-01-20 Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 Examples: Alabama Hills (Fujifilm GFX-50R)

2018

2018-12-18 Fujifilm GFX-50R First Look

2018-12-15 Gear in Progress for Review: Nikon Z7 + Nikon NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.8 S, Fujifilm GFX-50R, Sigma 40mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

2018-09-27 Fujifilm Shakes Up the Medium Format Market with 100 Megapixel Fujifilm GFX-100 and Low-Cost Fujifilm GFX-50R

2017

2017-11-26 What Would the Arrival of a 100-Megapixel Fujifilm GFX and/or Hasselblad X1D Mean for the DSLR and Mirrorless Options?

2017-08-10 Fujifilm GFX 50s Firmware Update Might Degrade Focusing by Stopping Down?

2017-07-25 Format Shootout: Fujifilm GFX-50S + Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 vs Sony A7R II + Sony FE 12-24mm f/4

2017-03-08 Fujifilm GFX 50s + 63mm f/2.8 Aperture Series: Yellow House at Dusk

2017-03-07 Fujifilm GFX 50s + 120mm f/4 Macro Plus Diffraction and Sharpening Evaluations

2017-03-07 Fujifilm GFX 50s + 120mm f/4 Macro Plus Aperture Series at Distance: Baseball Diamond

2017-03-06 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Some Progress, and Fujifilm’s Diagnosis

2017-03-05 A Cold Day in .... until the Fujifilm GFX 50s Works Properly?

2017-03-04 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Initial Impressions and Defective Camera (?) Stuck on Continuous Shooting Mode

2017-03-03 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Enroute for Testing

2017-03-03 Fujifilm GFX 50s: 'RAF' Not Yet Usable with Adobe Camera Raw (Lightroom, Photoshop)

2017-02-28 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Did Not Ship From B&H Today (for me and another)

2017-02-28 Cambo Actus Mini View Camera for Fujifilm GFX 50s

2017-02-25 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Shooting with Different Aspect Ratios

2017-02-25 Fujifilm GFX 50s: How Will Raw 'RAF' Files be Convertible?

2017-02-24 Fujifilm GFX 50s: General Review Pages, Waiting For the GFX to Arrive

2017-02-23 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Shipping Feb 28

2017-02-14 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Coming In Two Weeks (I Hope)

2017-01-28 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Coming March 1

2017-01-24 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Tilt Adapter for EVF

2017-01-24 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Specifications of Note

2017-01-24 Fujifilm GFX 50s: Battery is on the LEFT side of Camera — Potential Problem for L Brackets

2017-01-20 Fujifilm GFX 50s Crop Factor for HC Lenses

2017-01-18 Fujifilm GFX 50 Megapixel Medium Format Announced: Hi-Res Display Wonder (EVF, Rear LCD, Top Panel)

2017-01-12 Hasselblad X1D-50C vs Fujifilm GFX-50S Lens Lineup (UPDATED 13 Jan)

2016

2016-09-20 Fujifilm GFX 50S: Reader Comments/Questions

2016-09-19 Thoughts on the Fujifilm GFX 50S

2016-09-19 Fujifilm GFX 50S Disrupts the Medium Format (and 35mm) Marketplace

2016-04-27 Poking the Hornet’s Nest... Sony vs Fujifilm: Which is the Better Deal?

2016-04-07 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Night Shooting: Long Exposure and High ISO Performance

2016-04-06 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Severe Image Quality Bug: Grid Artifacts Occur with 3 Different Lenses

2016-04-05 Fujifilm XF 90mm f/2 Aperture Series (X-Pro2)

2016-04-04 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Severe Image Quality Bug: Grid Artifacts

2016-04-04 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Aperture Series with XF 23mm f/1.4, XF 35mm f/2, XF 90mm f/2

2016-04-02 REVIEWED: Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 OIS: Examples and More (Carrizo Plain, X-Pro2)

2016-03-31 X-Pro2 + Fujifilm XF 23mm f/1.4 Aperture Series: Ranch Barn, Oblique View

2016-03-31 Fujifilm X-Pro2 + Fujifilm XF 35mm f/2 Aperture Series: Ranch Barn, Sunlit

2016-03-31 Fujifilm X-Pro2 + Fujifilm XF 23mm f/1.4 Aperture Series: Green Barn in RAW and JPEG

2016-03-28 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Usability of In-Camera RAW-to-JPEG Feature

2016-03-28 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Raw Conversion: X-Pro2 vs SilkyPix vs Adobe Camera Raw vs Iridient Developer

2016-03-27 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Why Are Images Tinted Green?

2016-03-27 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Studying 'Grain Effect' in Black and White Conversions

2016-03-27 Fujifilm X-Pro2: ACROS Film Simulations vs Photoshop Black and White Options

2016-03-26 Fujifilm X-Pro2: RAW vs JPEG SHOOTOUT (Portrait Among the Flowers)

2016-03-26 Fujifilm X-Pro2: How Good is White Balance?

2016-03-26 Fujifilm X-Pro2: How Do In-Camera JPEG Film Simulations Compare to RAW-Derived Results in Adobe Camera Raw?

2016-03-25 Fujifilm X-Pro2: RAW vs JPEG SHOOTOUT (Green Barn)

2016-03-25 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Firmware Update Fixes Settings-Reset Glitch

2016-03-17 Fujifilm X-Pro2: How Much to Sharpen in Adobe Camera Raw?

2016-03-17 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Fractal-Like “Wormy” Artifacts (Clay Pot)

2016-03-16 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Raw File Format, Uncompresssed and Lossless-Compressed

2016-03-16 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Comparing 12 Camera Profiles in Adobe Camera Raw (for Photoshop or Lightroom)

2016-03-16 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Adobe Camera Raw Settings for Raw Conversion

2016-03-15 Fujifilm X-Pro2 Arrives, Promptly Glitches

2016-02-03 Sony A6300, and the Fujifilm X-Pro2

2016-01-17 Fujifilm X-Pro2

2015

2015-03-23 Compared: Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 APD vs Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 (Mannequin and Glass Bottles)

2015-03-23 Compared: Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 APD vs Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2

2014

2014-01-30 Micro Four Thirds and APS-C? Whither the Future? Wither the Future?

2013

2013-12-12 What’s on the Back Burner

2013-08-14 Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 Distagon Examples (Fujifilm X-E1, Bristlecone Graveyard)

2013-08-14 Fujifilm X-E1 + Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 Distagon: Dusk and Night

2013-08-14 Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujifilm XF 35mm f/1.4 Aperture Series (Bristlecone Graveyard)

2013-07-24 Micro Four Thirds vs APS-C: Summary

2013-07-24 Micro Four Thirds vs APS-C: Size and Weight Realities

2013-07-24 Micro Four Thirds vs APS-C: Lens Size

2013-07-24 Micro Four Thirds vs APS-C: Aspect Ratio

2013-07-19 Fujifilm Fujinon 60mm f/2.4 Macro Aperture Series: Pot on Stove (Fujifilm X-E1)

2013-07-19 Compared: Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 Distagon vs Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 (Fujifilm X-E1, Cabin #9 Bathroom)

2013-07-18 Fujifilm Fujinon 60mm f/2.4 Macro Aperture Series: Field and Stream (Fujifilm X-E1)

2013-07-18 Fujifilm Fujinon 60mm f/2.4 Macro Aperture Series: Birchbark Box (Fujifilm X-E1)

2013-07-15 Shootout: Sigma DP1 Merrill vs Ricoh GR vs Fujifilm X-E1 (Dilapidated Green House)

2013-07-15 Shootout: Sigma DP1 Merrill vs Ricoh GR vs Fujifilm X-E1 (Bristlecone Graveyard)

2013-07-15 Compared: Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 Distagon vs Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 (Fujifilm X-E1, Cabin #9 Interior)

2013-07-11 Fujifilm Fujinon 60mm f/2.4 Aperture Series (Ellery Lake Ponderosa Pine)

2013-07-10 Fujifilm X-E1 Kit: Returned Entire System for a Refund

2013-07-06 Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 18mm f/2 for Fujifilm X-E1: Aperture Series (Wyman Cabin Table)

2013-06-07 Really Right Stuff BXE1 Grip and L Plate Set for Fujifilm X-E1

2013-06-06 Fujifilm X-E1 Kit (I made the investment, due to huge discounts on lenses)

2013-01-16 Fuji X Raw (ARW) Artifacting: ACR vs Capture One Pro 7.0.2

2012

2012-12-23 Fujifilm X-Pro1 Artifacts: Presented in Color and Black and White

2012-12-22 SHOOTOUT: Sony RX1 vs Sigma DP2 Merrill vs Fujifilm X-E1

2012-12-09 Tested: Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 @ 55mm on X-E1

2012-12-09 Fujifilm X-E1 (and X-Pro1) Artifacting Issue — Reader Comments

2012-12-08 Fujifilm X-E1 Artifacting: Counterpoint

2012-12-07 Fujifilm X-Pro1 Artifacting Example

2012-12-07 Fujifilm X-E1 Artifacting Example

2012-12-06 Fujifilm X-E1 Has the Same Fractal-Like Artifacts as the X-Pro1

2012-12-05 Size Comparison: Fujifilm X-E1 vs Sigma DP2 Merrill

2012-12-05 Fujifilm X-E1 Initial Comments

2012-12-05 Fujifilm X-E1 File Size with ACR

2012-09-22 Fujifilm X-Pro1 — Same Artifacts from the Funky Sensor Design

2012-09-06 Fujifilm X-E1

2012-06-18 Reader Comment: Fujifilm X-Pro1

2012-04-24 Fujifilm X-Pro1 Noise Evaluation

2012-04-23 Fujifilm X-Pro1 Examples (Alpine Creek)

2012-04-22 Fujifilm X-Pro1 Review

2012-04-03 En route— Fujifilm X-Pro1 with Fujifilm XF 18mm f/2.0 R and Fujifilm XF 35/1.4 R Lenses

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