![]() ![]() #XPRO 1 REVIEWS SOFTWARE#Other raw software developers tend to devote their resources to the more popular models. Adobe's seemingly in no rush to support the X-Pro1 in Lightroom/Adobe Camera Raw and Apple tends to be even slower on the uptake. Because it uses a nonstandard CFA, the raw-processing algorithms need to be redesigned for optimal results. Which brings me to the downside of the X-Trans sensor. I do know that saving as 16-bit TIFF and processing using Adobe Camera Raw didn't work. However, I'm not confident enough with my Silkypix skills to state that with 100 percent certainty it's possible there's some technique I don't know about to maximize highlight detail. Also, as far as I can tell there isn't a lot of recoverable detail in light-colored, blown-out areas what makes the sensor so good in low light overwhelms it in bright. Unfortunately, that means you have to use raw if you shoot flowers, landscapes, and the like. Reds in the raw files are completely different, and I was able to recover some of the blown-out detail as well. As with the Fujifilm FinePix X100, I saw hue shifts to orange and blown-out highlights in extremely bright, saturated, natural reds ( example) but unlike the X100, the X-Pro1 seems to only have problems in the JPEG versions. The camera produces consistent and appropriate exposures, and with one exception the colors are both accurate and vibrant. Fujifilm claims this arrangement obviates the need for a low-pass filter to prevent moiré and results in fewer false-color artifacts and a sharper image. The X-Trans sensor uses a different pattern for its CFA, one that has a few more green pixels as well as more irregularly spaced red and blue ones. Most sensors apply a low-pass filter to the image in order to remove any potential moiré, which can reduce perceived sharpness. In addition, the more regular the pattern of the array, the more likely it is to combine unattractively with any regular patterns in the scene, an artifact known as moiré. The demosaicing process can also result in image artifacts, which is inevitable given that the software essentially has to "guess" at the image detail and color for intermediate pixels. Then the camera (or software) performs what's called demosaicing to build the image out of the pattern of RGB values. In a typical sensor color filter array, each pixel is responsible for capturing a single color intensity (red, green, or blue), while most of the detail falls to the periodically spaced, more sensitive green pixels. The typical Bayer color filter array on the top Fujifilm's X-Trans array on the bottom. #XPRO 1 REVIEWS ISO#The X-Pro1 uses a new sensor, the X-Trans, which in combination with mostly intelligent JPEG processing delivers excellent photo quality across low- and midrange ISO sensitivities, and in combination with the sharp XF lenses, very good detail resolution, color, and tonal range. While it doesn't win any points for its autofocus performance or bare-bones feature set, the stunning photo quality (for its class) does a lot to make up for that. Its X-Pro1 interchangeable-lens model now sits at the top of that line, packing a lot of innovative and promising technology into a really retro and mostly well-designed - if a bit large - body. #XPRO 1 REVIEWS SERIES#But the company has come quite far in a short time, thanks to its premium X series of cameras, which deliver strong image quality in striking vintage designs. It seems strange that until as recently as a few years ago, we'd come to associate Fujifilm primarily with masses of middling point-and-shoot cameras. Fujifilm X-Pro1 image samples and analysis ![]()
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