#MEDIUM FORMAT VS FULL FRAME SENSOR SIZE PLUS#
Ten years ago, a major new sensor generation might have offered a similar resolution boost, PLUS a stop of dynamic range at low ISO, PLUS improved color, PLUS lower noise, PLUS an extra sharpness boost from disabling the AA filter (for less than half the price). It’s a nice little boost, but it isn’t a revolution. If you are wondering if you can push one size farther than your X-T4 can do, try it… If you have an X-T4 (or some other 26 MP Fuji) and you have a print size you’re almost comfortable with, it’ll probably be really comfortable with an X-H2. What it seems to do is push the maximum print size up a bit from the X-T4. I look forward to shooting one myself (it’s on the list for this winter, and I have a video-loving colleague and the combination of X-H2 and X-H2s lined up for a shoot – maybe January?). It has the resolution of a full-frame pixel monster, but the dynamic range of a really good APS-C camera (it IS a really good APS-C camera, so that should be no surprise).Įarly reviewers are seeing excellent, typically Fujifilm colors and surprisingly little noise for such a dense sensor. The 40 MP APS-C Fujifilm X-H2 is perhaps the first camera with a sensor of that next generation, and we don’t know a lot about it yet, but it seems to be essentially a high-resolution X-T4. I suspect there is a (relatively) major sensor generation arriving in the next year or two, with higher pixel densities than we have seen so far, but that it won’t change all that much about the kind of images we can make. Developing new sensors that might bring major increases to any aspect of image quality is expensive, and the market for non-phone cameras is at best static – so nobody really wants to put the money in. First, image quality appears to be plateauing, with new cameras gaining versatility rather than actual image quality (an exception to this is that we are still seeing big improvements in image stabilization on a regular basis). There are a couple of reasons to dive deeply into digital imaging technology and image quality now.
For the purposes of this article, except in the discussion of smartphones, I am going to assume that most LuLa readers are shooting raw, rather than relying on their camera’s internal processing to produce a processed image automatically.
If we keep the subject constant, so we are eliminating the (critical) effects of the photographer’s creativity and technical skill, what factors in the camera and lens affect the overall quality of the raw file we begin post-processing, editing and preparing for print (or screen display). What is image quality, really? How much of it do we need? It’s not just resolution, although resolution plays some role. A modern sensor and some interesting post-processing made the image work.
#MEDIUM FORMAT VS FULL FRAME SENSOR SIZE ISO#
Even a few years ago, this image would have been impossible to capture (at least in any way that supports a large print) – it’s a 102 mp file, 15 second exposure at ISO 10,000 (no, I couldn’t see a darned thing in the viewfinder – I had set up and focused before dark).
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