The IQ of my Fuji S3 camera rocks!!

[stingOM]

Just received my camera today and I did a very quick test. Wow, I am truly impressed with this camera. The raw files is huge, but it is able to cope with some serious post processing without breaking apart.

There is just so much noise with the G1 when you lift those shadows even at ISO 400. You see those banding in the G1. I guess it is not exactly comparing like with like. Still it shows what Fuji sensor can do.

What do you think?

LHS = original image
RHS = processed image in LR3.

I exposed for highlights with the G1 in order to preserve it. I did the opposite with the Fuji cam with +2 exposure bias. You can see from the graph there is still some headroom left for highlights in the Fuji image.

[yinyangbt]

Good results, it seems.Clean image.
How does it works on your northern lights ?
Not too heavy?

[Glow]

I use LR4 for even better results with the beautiful FujiFilm sensor. The rawfiles are huge until compressed by the Fuji raw compressor. After compression they are 10-12 MB smaller.

[ludoo]

Very interesting results. Is its handling any better than the clunky S2?

[stingOM]