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Maybe it’s me, but these images just seem to be awful. Tons of chromatic aberration in the tree branches and architectural edges, lots of oversharpening and artifacting in the details, moire in small details like street gutters, and an overall “flatness” that is hard to quantify but tends to go along with small sensor point and shoots. I tried the free rental program last summer with the DP Quattro and was equally unimpressed. That camera also had some wicked neon green flare any time you shot into the sun. Once in a while I would get a great image that reminded me of shooting 35mm film, but most of the time I was just disappointed. I’m all for innovation and more cameras like these being made, but it makes me sad to see images that look like they were taken with a camera from 2006 (other than resolution).
I disagree with the last comment.
I haven’t seen anything from Canon/Nikon to match that sharpness.
The Samsung NX1 does come close.
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I agree with both of you… There are indeed some CA and to much sharpening in the samples, but the amount of (real) details is impressive for a 1 inch sensor. I don’t remember the RX100 series to match this level of details…
The sensor is not a one inch sensor, it is APS-C. I shoot, Canon for work, Nikon for studio stuff and architecture, and Fujifilm for portraits and street stuff. I don’t think the detail beats even my old 12MP D300 with a good lens. Fujifilm handles dynamic range better (clipping in the highlights of the flag and clipping off all the detail in the blacks in almost every other shot). And the sharpening is so overdone, there is a texture to the flat blue sky. But the main thing I just can’t get over is how much CA there is. Especially for a fixed, prime lens camera without a zoom. Compare this to Fujifilm’s x100s, which has virtually no CA at any aperture. I realize the x100 is a 35mm equivalent and not 21mm and that may have something to do with it. But if you were going to print any of those photos at any size, the CA would be noticeable, whereas the sharpness would hardly factor unless prints were being made over 13 x 19in.
Also another thing to note: All the images are at ISO 100. When I rented the Quattro last summer I noticed anything above ISO 400 started to show image degradation, desaturation, and noise.