Fujifilm X-T4 Introduced

My favorite camera body gets an upgrade with fully articulating screen, bigger battery, and IBIS.  It uses the best APS-C sensor currently on the market but still uses my not-so-favorite X-trans color array...
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t4-initial-review

Lots of new threads regarding this camera on DPreview now.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/2403957348/hands-on-with-the-fujifilm-x-t4

https://www.dpreview.com/videos/5231052638/dpreview-tv-fujifilm-x-t4-first-impressions

https://www.dpreview.com/samples/4614488073/fujifilm-x-t4-pre-production-sample-gallery

https://www.dpreview.com/news/4879009335/fujifilm-introduces-x-t4-with-in-body-image-stabilization-and-improved-battery-life

Joe

I think many photographers will be surprised at how well the IBIS works. I do a lot of hand held low light work with the X-H1 and the IBIS makes a huge difference, and also seems to reduce rolling shutter.
If you have a stationary subject this camera should be good to near a one second exposure hand held.
But forget all that. It's the lenses.

E.J. Peiker wrote:My favorite camera body gets an upgrade with fully articulating screen, bigger battery, and IBIS.  It uses the best APS-C sensor currently on the market but still uses my not-so-favorite X-trans color array...
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t4-initial-review

Hello EJ, it may be time to let go of your ancient dislike of X-Trans.

I have been shooting Fuji X cameras since the X-E1 and own the X-T2 and X-T3. Capture One 12 paid and RawTherapee 5.8 free both do an outstanding job of demosaicing the RAW files. RT 5.8 has a learning curve as discussed here: RT 5.8 discussion

Big hint: use demosaicing 3 pass + fast and default capture sharpening and possibly false color suppression +1.

Check out the detail I'm getting on my Flickr at 100%

richard bledsoe wrote:

E.J. Peiker wrote:My favorite camera body gets an upgrade with fully articulating screen, bigger battery, and IBIS.  It uses the best APS-C sensor currently on the market but still uses my not-so-favorite X-trans color array...
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t4-initial-review

Hello EJ, it may be time to let go of your ancient dislike of X-Trans.

I have been shooting Fuji X cameras since the X-E1 and own the X-T2 and X-T3. Capture One 12 paid and RawTherapee 5.8 free both do an outstanding job of demosaicing the RAW files. RT 5.8 has a learning curve as discussed here: RT 5.8 discussion

Big hint: use demosaicing 3 pass + fast and default capture sharpening and possibly false color suppression +1.

Check out the detail I'm getting on my Flickr at 100%

I know how to process the files and have an X-trans camera but if you study how demosaicing works you will see that there is a fundamental flaw where on a repeating pattern you have to predict a final pixel color based on 4 green pixels which of course ends up being green so the RAW processor has to basically replace that green value with a nearest neighbor 4 pixels value - it's fundamentally flawed.  Certainly these cameras are capable of phenomenal image quality but it is by definition less accurate than a bayer sensor would be in those instances where there are 4 green adjacent pixels that need to be demosaiced.  So I hate it more from a technical standpoint than I do from the standpoint of the final image as our eyes perceive it.  So no, I'm not going to let it go but I also realize that they are exceptional cameras

Starting to look like the X-T4, which is built in China, will also ship later than expected in volume due to COVID-19.

Initial review of X-T4:
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifi ... ial-review