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06-JAN-2007

46192_1_22_1200 w text.jpg

Their original would not download fully. Look at the terrible jaggies where the lines on the auto body panels are...this is a terrible example of how strong diagonal lines can exhibit stair-stepping when rendered by the 45-degree-rotated Bayer array that FujiFilm uses in their SuperCCD sensor.Usually, this type of Digital Weirdness (Rob Galbraith's term) is not a problem, but here we can easily see a type of artifacting that has plagued the SuperCCD sensor since the S1 Pro; namely, clearly-seen,strong stair-stepping on strong lines in real-world pictures. It's one of the bits of weirdness that the SuperCCD sensors have always had. But, is that any worse than the banding problems on the EOS 5D when using some of the Canon USM prime lenses? Is it worse than the various types of banding that are found in many Nikon D200 captures? Is it worse than the radio frequency interference problems that can occur when photographing around some of the New York City buildings? Is it worse than the excess magenta problem that plagued the D1 sensor,and now the Leica M8's sensor? Digital Weirdness actually exists...and there are many types of it. I'm not trying to "bash" the S5, but am pointing out an obvious,clear flaw that does not exist in images made with other cameras that use standard, NON-rotated Bayer array sensors.

FujiFilm FinePix S5Pro
1/225s f/8.0 at 18.0mm iso200 full exif

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