I've got a friend online who is a unit stills photographer up in Canada. He used to shoot Fuji and now full frame Nikon Z. So he shows up online yesterday with a picture of his dog. It's a nice picture, cloudy late day background, looks like a little fill flash.. then proceeds to talk about how there's no way his Nikon could do this because the Pixel stacks eight frames and HDR and blah blah blah.. and I'm thinking to myself.. uhh, OK. The fur is oversharpened and the fake bokeh is everything you'd expect fake bokeh to be. It's a perfectly acceptable image, but it makes me wonder when he says that, to take this same daylight pet picture, I'd need to put my Fuji on a tripod and take a bunch of exposures and combine them in post or else it, like his Nikon, would be full of noise?! I don't agree with this assessment..
And here's why. HDR stacking of images takes several seconds. Fake bokeh computation also takes time. And even with my modest post production skills and free Linux software, I get images that no phone can do, with only one exposure. Seems like when you've got 8 times the sensor area, you only need 1/8th the processing power to capture an image which looks good in the first place :-D
Side rant: the stated max image size is 4mb, yet I have several images of 1.4 and 2.1mb that won't take because the image is too big.
And here's why. HDR stacking of images takes several seconds. Fake bokeh computation also takes time. And even with my modest post production skills and free Linux software, I get images that no phone can do, with only one exposure. Seems like when you've got 8 times the sensor area, you only need 1/8th the processing power to capture an image which looks good in the first place :-D
Side rant: the stated max image size is 4mb, yet I have several images of 1.4 and 2.1mb that won't take because the image is too big.
