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Fujifilm GFX100S: Horizontal White Stripes — the Futility of Using GFX100S for Monochrome Landscape Images — Examples with ACR Settings
See the first report made on the horizontal white stripes problem. This page shows even worse image quality issues. The entire image as shown is an unusable disaster because of prominent white stripes everywhere.
The stripes being bright horizontal lines, it’s not clear this relates to PDAF banding.
At least for making monochrome landscape images, the Fujifilm GFX100S is a total 'FAIL'. No one in their right mind should consider using it for monochrome imagery for landscapes.
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Fujifilm GFX100S + Fujifilm GF 80mm f/1.7 R WR @ 65.8mm equiv (80mm) + polarizer Breakthrough Photography X4
ENV: White Mountains, altitude 11800 ft / 3597 m, 55°F / 12°C
RAW: vignetting corrected, +81 Shadows, -100 Highlights, +40 Whites, +20 Contrast, +50 Dehaze, +15 Clarity, diffraction mitigating sharpening
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