As a “walkabout” camera, the Fuji X100f is perfect for times I don’t want to carry the larger Leica - but I still own a collapsible Summicron, but the reality is my very old 35mm Summilux is similar in size, and I believe it is much sharper than what I can do with the Fuji. I could always buy a Leica Q, but that’s many thousands of dollars for a larger “small camera”, and the Fuji is similar in many ways to the Leica Q.
Who knows, if I ever really need more from the file, perhaps by then DxO will have started to support the X-Trans sensor, or I can edit the ‘raw’ file in my Open Source DarkTable app. I think my best option for when I shoot with the Fuji, is to shoot RAW+JPG, then do as you suggest, and work with the ‘TIF’ file. I can post all the images here if anyone wants to take a go at it. This time I got an image that a rather liked! By an hour later, I had tried again, but told Topaz Sharpen AI to use the “soft image” tool, not the “motion blur” which I found I had used the first time.
It did work though, just as you describe! Unfortunately, while the software did make the body look good, it made the “scales” on top look awful.
I purchased my trial version of Topaz Sharpen AI (to get rid of the watermark) and tried what you suggested, not expecting it to work. (Note to self, use burst mode and capture several, to give me a selection of images to choose from.)Īnyway, when I got home, I found an interesting image, with blurred feet (which looked good!), and a blurred body (which looked awful). I was expecting that, and panned the camera (Fuji X100f) to my right and captured one image. I got lots of technically “good”, but rather boring photos of the iguana, when it finally decided I was too close, and started scampering off to my right. It moved to a small concrete wall, alongside of Biscayne Bay. One of them let me gradually get rather close to it.
I was walking to a local store yesterday, and saw some large iguanas near Biscayne Bay. Thanks to both of you, I accidentally found that worked just as you say.