What's Your #1 Photographic Wish? Mine? A Fujifilm X-T1 with a Sony 24mp APS-C Sensor

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What is the thing at the top of your photographic "wish list" that you would like to have or see created and sold?  My number one wish is for Fujifilm to put a Sony 24mp APS-C sensor in the X-T1, or its successor, as an option to the X-Trans sensor.

That being said, don't get me wrong.  The X-Trans sensor is capable of providing wonderful image quality, beautiful colors and low noise.  But, and this is a big but for many, many of us photographers who already own one or would like to own an X-T1, the software manufacturers have not done a good enough job with their demosaicing of the X-Trans raw files as they should.  The software manufacturers are not providing the means to extract everything bit of that tremendous quality that is in that X-Trans file and render it out to us in the best possible way.  Every software program currently out there seems to be a compromise.  Either the fine green foliage looks like a watercolor painting or you get smear in the other fine details, or you get great detail at the expense of digital noise.  Maybe one day they will figure out how to fully exploit the X-Trans sensor and I hope they do, but they aren't there yet.

In the mean time, I would like to see that excellent Sony 24mp APS-C sensor put in that wonderfully designed and beautifully handling X-T1 to use with those top notch Fujifilm lenses.  Those same software manufacturers have developed very good demosaicing algorithms for this particular sensor.  The combination of the two would be a superb package.

That is exactly what I hope for and would be very satisfied for the foreseeable future.  No need to buy another camera after that.  That would hit my 'sweet spot' for my digital photography.

How about you.  What is your #1 photographic wish?

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Dennis Mook

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