mjt Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 hello all ... S5 Pro ISO 3200/1600 night shots (no flash of course) http://s5pro.homelinux.org/s5-high-iso-night this server is getting a little long in the tooth, so be gentle :) this post also exists over at dpreview.com's Fujifilm forum. regards, michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
focuslightstudio Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Thanks, but the S5 Pro is still just a glorified 6mp camera!!! The resolution just isn't there with the competition of all the 10+ mega pixel cameras! So, I'm not too concerned about the noise coming out of a 6mp camera compared to the D200's 10mp sensor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wj_lee Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 This might sound strange, I've looked at many magazines and all of them say that the actual resolution difference between D200 and S5 is very marginal. Fuji resolves more than typical 6mp camera but slightly less, than D200. When printing the picture really there is no real difference between D200 and S5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken dennis Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Whew! I had to quit that site, it brought back to many bad memories of my old super slow pre Pentium dial up days! :O) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjt Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 hi Ken ... it's a bandwidth issue. if you're selecting to view or download an image at full size, we're talking about 5+ MB for each photo. also, an average of 200+ users/hour are accessing the server. sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I think the attraction of the S5 Pro is the dynamic range is higher than the D200, at the cost of slightly less overall resolution. I'm waiting for Phil Askey over at dpreview.com to test it. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Speaking of Phil Askey, Thom Hogan has some comments on the S5 vs. D2X on Askey's DPReview site:http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1020&message=22478837 Essentially, if you use the S5, you trade off resolution for extra dynamic range. Effectively, the S3 and S5 are just doing HDR but in hardware, and the process to "combine the images" shot with the two sets of photosites slows down the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelkh Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 "Effectively, the S3 and S5 are just doing HDR but in hardware". This is a fair bit of an oversimplification as you well know, even as the rest of your point about the tradeoffs is not. Try asking your portrait sitter to stay in _exactly_ the same position while you set up the second shot. "HDR in hardware" is something all digital SLRs could do. The S5 records with a wider dynamic range. There is no 'effectively' about it. Addresssing the wider point, the jump from six to ten megapixels is a reasonably significant upgrade, but it's not going to make a huge difference except at quite large print sizes. You can add into this mix the interpolation of the sensor data from the S5 (which is _not_ equivalent to upscaling in photoshop, as it clearly provides at least some extra information). Having shot with an S2 for some time I feel comfortable in saying that the 12 megapixel 'interpolated' result does convey more information than the six megapixel output of, say, a D70. How much more information exists in practice is harder to say, but the difference is there, both theoretically and in practice. This I think contributes to the impression that the S5 is closer to the D200's results than might otherwise be expected. Personally, I am finally heading into the market for a replacement for my S2, and I've not yet made my mind up between the two. I'm also interested to see what dpreview makes of it, but I'm far from likely to decide based solely on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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