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

Fujifilm X-Pro2

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I take a look at night shooting at all ISOs with various examples from the X-Pro2, including an ISO 800/1600/3200/6400/12800 series. Overall image quality including the quality of the noise pattern under real world conditions is the single most important factor to the viability of high ISO and long exposures (lab tests are rarely relevant for high ISO, IMO), so I discuss and show that explicitly in the examples.

Several of the examples are with/without chroma noise reduction. Also included are a couple of aggressive push processing and shadow boost examples.

Fujifilm X-Pro2: Night Shooting, Long Exposure, Night High-ISO Examples

Images shown at sizes up to full 24MP resolution. RawDigger histogram info shown for several examples as well, since it relates directly to exposure.

Water Tanks, Carrizo Plain

f8 @ 6.0 sec, ISO 12800; 2016-03-22 23:29:03
X-Pro2 + XF23mmF1.4 R @ 35.1mm equiv (23mm)

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