The two extremes of fuji

[juangrande]

These were taken with the 55-200 (1st and last) and the 14mm.

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[dduval]

Love all of them, number 3 being my fav...number 1 could use the horizon leveled out a bit...well done.

 

[juangrande]

Thanks! How's that?

 

[entropic remnants]

Nice!

I didn't know how very sharp that 55-200mm really was until I started processing in Photo Ninja. I just figured out the batch processing tonight and went over some RAWS from a week or so ago and wow. I have some flower shots that are even better than the out of camera JPG now and the RAW files have not been in terms of detail or sharpness in Lightroom. I could recover highlight/shadow better in LR before, but the IQ was not as good.

I think for a serious Fuji owner something like Iridium or Photo Ninja may be a necessity.

 

[Armanius]

Amazing colors! Well done!

 

[dduval]

Thanks! How's that?

Much better! Beautiful!

 

[juangrande]

John, these were all JPEG with 3 of them Velvia. The elk shot was well cropped.

 

[entropic remnants]

John, these were all JPEG with 3 of them Velvia. The elk shot was well cropped.

The JPG's from these cameras are pretty much without peer! RAW is still good for extreme scenes (of which I photograph a few, lol) -- but I'm shooting RAW + JPG and taking the JPG if it looks good, and working the RAW with Photo Ninja if I can't get what I want out of the JPG. Best of both worlds.

 

[drd1135]

The contrast of warm and cool tones is striking, especially the last one. I might have moved the horizon up or down a bit, but that's just speculation.