Savageduck wrote:
All the various Fuji oriented sites have gone on, and on at how good the
JPEGs are straight out of the camera (SOOC) with the Fuji X-Series. I
have been shooting RAW+JPEG, but up until this weekend I have not
bothered to even look at the JPEGs. So when I did just that with my
Triathlon bikers shots from Saturday I was quite surprised to see just
how good the SOOC JPEGs were, and beyond a crop they did not need any
adjustment, and could be shared as shot. Needless to say the RAW files
needed all the help post could give them. So here is a side-by-side
comparison of an unadjusted RAW and SOOC JPEG.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_79a.jpg

That comparison made, I suspect that there are going to be quite a
number of my future shots where I will share some SOOC JPEGs as the
camera cooks them.



Thanks for the interesting comparison. I do not remember the details,
but I recently read in a review of a new camera, that the (finest
setting) JPEGs were at least equal to the RAW images, sooc.

It's fascinating. When in doubt, I run tests for image quality both
on-screen and at 8x10" prints. Occasionally, I am quite surprised.

Mort Linder