Thanks to www.fujirumours.com for alerting me to this one. I saw an article on there that mentioned the jpegs from the XE-2 are having noise reduction applied way too much at the moment and this was something I’d noticed when shooting the Christening at the weekend. There were a couple of shots I took where I immediately grabbed the D800 and shot them again as I could see a noticeable lack of detail. I just assumed I’d reached the limits of the sensor, but it was actually because of the noise compression on the jpegs. I deliberately used a fast shutter speed to bump up the ISO to 6400. Even with noise reduction turned down to -1 I was shocked at the difference. The raw file is noisier, but looks a lot more like the shot I would expect to see on the D800. Anyway, here are a couple of shots of my daughter shot at ISO 6400. Please note these are not meant to be good shots.
First the jpeg..
Then the one shot in raw ( apologies for the different crop, she wouldn’t stay still for long ).
