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Malina,Carl, thank you for sharing these full size JPGs. Are you happy with the IQ SDQ provides?
No question that this is a heavy (weight with my 18-35/1.8 is 1.68 kg) camera for a mirrorless, but handling is quite good. All controls are nicely placed and easily accessible with good, solid construction. Shutter noise is similar to my A7r, but better damped. I just received two extra Wasabi batteries and compact charger designed for the Panasonic GH4, that work perfectly with sdQ. AF performance is lens dependant, perfect with the 18-35/1.8 Art, but unreliable with the 70 macro. I'm still trying to work out best processing routines for the x3f and x3i raw files, but otherwise no major issues using SPP 6.40.Thanks for sharing. How's the handling, size and weight?
Hi CarlNo question that this is a heavy (weight with my 18-35/1.8 is 1.68 kg) camera for a mirrorless, but handling is quite good. All controls are nicely placed and easily accessible with good, solid construction. Shutter noise is similar to my A7r, but better damped. I just received two extra Wasabi batteries and compact charger designed for the Panasonic GH4, that work perfectly with sdQ. AF performance is lens dependant, perfect with the 18-35/1.8 Art, but unreliable with the 70 macro. I'm still trying to work out best processing routines for the x3f and x3i raw files, but otherwise no major issues using SPP 6.40.
Thanks Lee. The EVF is horrible and I would not use it for critical MF work. EVF is OK for framing and quick snapshot AF work but quality like first generation EVF and nowhere near the performance of recent Sony cams. The LCD is very good and works well with magnification and/or peaking for MF work.Hi Carl
Great stuff. Just wondering how the EVF compares to other cameras in your experience?
Lee
The artifacts look very reminiscent of the early Fuji X sensor demosaicing issues in ACR. Kendall H over at DPR thinks it might be a SPP 6.4 processing bug and so do I. Hopefully, Sigma will correct this in the next SPP release. Strange thing is that the artifacts are present also in the individual x3f files as well as the composite.LOL yikes, so I guess SFD is doing some processing akin to a pixel-shift mode. These modes are intriguing, but seem like they are really difficult to take advantage of outside of a studio or still life environment. The Pentax K1 and E-M5II have the same issues with any motion at all. I wonder if a slow shutter speed to smooth all of the water would have helped?
OK, ignore all of above. There are some serious x3i processing issues here in SPP 6.4.0. After comparing the individual frame processing I finally realized that despite selecting one, unique frame for processing SPP continued to use multi frame processing. Despite claims that individual x3f shots from the 7 shot SFD series in the x3i file can be extracted I have not found a way of doing that. Unless you are shooting absolutely still subjects, using SFD is a total waste of time.The artifacts look very reminiscent of the early Fuji X sensor demosaicing issues in ACR. Kendall H over at DPR thinks it might be a SPP 6.4 processing bug and so do I. Hopefully, Sigma will correct this in the next SPP release. Strange thing is that the artifacts are present also in the individual x3f files as well as the composite.
so the 3 middle frames were taken at the same time?^^.. I extracted the 3 middle frames (-1, 0, +1) generated tiffs, and then composited the tiffs using Aurora HDR. Somewhat garish results, but at least no scatter of motion artifacts....
iso 100... and there is plenty of magenta and green pattern noise in shadow areas of this file. Do you have a single frame of this scene shot in a normal mode (not SFD)? Does it have as much pattern noise before lifting shadows?Edit: Finally have a way of extracting x3f raw files from the 7 frames in the x3i SFD file.
They were all taken within SFD with whatever the lag time is between shots.so the 3 middle frames were taken at the same time?^^
The noise appeared after processing in Aurora. Unfortunately I did not take a shot in normal mode for this scene.iso 100... and there is plenty of magenta and green pattern noise in shadow areas of this file. Do you have a single frame of this scene shot in a normal mode (not SFD)? Does it have as much pattern noise before lifting shadows?