In my experience, Fuji RAWs are much better when the highlights are not off the end of the scale on the in-camera Histogram, Shadow recovery is much better than Highlight recovery
While the spectral highlights are of course many stops beyond recovery, the highlights on the children playing on the stepping stones all retain some detail. The light in that particular shot was even difficult to look into, as the reflection from the water was totally dazzling. I am amazed that I did not pick up internal lens reflections, which demonstrates something of the quality of the 18-55 lens. At the same time the strong blacks were well maintained with out the usual light degradation.
There is rather more tonality and detail in all of the shots when seen at normal size. These shots are compressed by the export for web process, in photoshop, and aways look over sharpened and lacking in subtle tones. In the pan all the cloud tones are retained in the original, even though they are very bright as illuminated by the sun.
In the pill box, I was pleased that all the subtlety of the brail dots was preserved in the side lighting. And also the subtle transition of the bokeh into the background shows no abrupt edging at all.
All in all the xe2 gave me raws that were exceedingly easy to work with, and a higher quality than I have had before from any other Aps sensors.
On the down side, I have had to take the bottom left fn button out of action, as I can't help pressing it. I have changed the red vidieo button to Face Detect as it is right next to the release button. It only takes a 2+ second press to change back if I need to. I have also changed a large majority of the Q settings to things that I will actually use.
I also find the viewfinder is not Ideal with my glasses (nowhere near as good as the X30 one for preventing light polution). Though I find that I can shade itsomewhat by changing my left hand grip.
After The Rain by Adrian Jones, on Flickr
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