Fujifilm GFX100 II: 4-Shot Pixel Shift vs Single-Frame (Stop Sign example)
Related: digital sensor, fairy dust aka hot/stuck pixels, Fujifilm, Fujifilm GFX100 II, Fujifilm medium format, Fujifilm mirrorless, medium format, optics, pixel shift, T-stop, true-color sensor or image
A 4-shot pixel shift mode a la Sony appeared with the Fujifilm GFX100 II. As this page was written, Fujifilm had not issued any firmware update(s) to bring that feature to sibling cameras like the Fujifilm GFX100S/100. Users of those camera are obliged to engage 16-shot mode, record 16 frames, and then use 4 of those frames to achieve 4-shot result. This is a crap design, but Fujifilm has not even issued a statement on the matter, let alone issued a firmware update (as this was written).
This example follows-up on the Flag Shed example with a counterpoint showing that Fujifilm GFX100 II 4-shot pixel shift can be both inferior to a single frame processed with Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details, due to Fujifilm’s forced lens corrections that degrade sharpness eg distortion correction, with the DNG being essentially a processed and baked-in TIF file rather than a RAW file.
Fujifilm GFX100 II: 4-Shot Pixel Shift vs Single-Frame (Stop Sign)
Includes images up to full camera resolution, plus crops.
Call me disappointed, to put it kindly.
Fujifilm GFX100 II + Fujifilm GF 55mm f/1.7 WR @ 45.3mm equiv (55mm)
ENV: Nevada Hwy 6, altitude 6000 ft / 1829 m, 60°F / 15°C
RAW: Enhance Details, LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, AI Denoise 10
[low-res image for bot]
