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| Row of Colonial Homes, Olde Town, Portsmouth, Virginia (click to enlarge) Fuji X-T1, 18-55mm f/2.9-4 lens @ 31.5mm; 1/220th @ f/8; ISO 200 |
I was thinking about the inevitability that Fujifilm will release an X-Pro 2 and subsequently an X-T2 with a new, 24mp X-Trans sensor in the next few months. I think we can pretty much all agree that Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw does not do the best job in demosaicing X-Trans files. My personal experience has been that fine green foliage sometimes renders as smeared and has a watercolor paint effect instead of crisp details.
Additionally, I have found in many images, small detailed objects, such as twigs, small branches, pebbles and the like, appear as though they have a black outline around them. So here is my question for you techy photographers.
Considering we see a reduction of moiré issues with more densely packed pixels on a given sensor size (I see almost none with my D810), what do you anticipate the effects will be on the two RAW conversion problems mentioned above when Fujifilm goes to a higher resolution, 24mp, sensor?
Will the more densely packed sensor, with smaller pixels, render greens and details better? If so or if not, why?
I really don't have an idea about this, but it might be fun to either understand from someone who would fully understand the technology or even just speculate.
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Dennis A. Mook
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I suspect the answer to this will be along the lines that it depends what you shoot: I expect that if you shoot fairly fine repeating patterns now and it shows moiré then that will improve with more densely packed sensor and if you shoot extremely fine repeating patters then it may get worse instead.
ReplyDeleteI.e. the problem will still exist but will change slightly to finer patterns, thus if you shoot repeating pattern that caused moiré with a current sensor and shot it from a greater distance wit a new more tightly packed sensor you could still get the same effect.
Checking out the Canon 5Ds R reviews gives an insight into this
:)
all the best
Simon