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Round 1 will be shooting low aperture for max bokeh. The contestants are the Nikon D610 with the 25-85 kit lens and the Fujifilm X-T20 with the 16-50 kit lens. Here they are (taken with my iphone):
The Nikon has a larger sensor and a wider aperture (Nikon: 3.5 to 4.5 versus Fuji: 3.5 to 5.6), which makes the bokeh portion of the shootout kinda unfair at maximum focal length, but let's take a look anyhow! BTW, everything will be shot in RAW, processed in photoshop ONLY to reside to 800x534 size to fit here. There will be no other adjustments to skew results one way or the other.
So, here we go...
1. Nikon at max focal length, wide open:
2. Fujifilm, max focal length and wide open:
MY TAKE: The color and bokeh win clearly goes the the full frame Nikon, but the sharpness is a no-contest win for the little X-T20. Hmmm.... this is gonna be interesting.
3. Nikon- waterdrop
4. Fujifilm waterdrop
MY TAKE: Again, the little Fuji-that-could seems a bit sharper, and there is just something kinda... cloudy?... about the Nikon bokeh to my eye. Odd.
5. Nikon at minimum focal length, wide open (to test for clarity only)
6. Same shot with the Fujifilm
MY TAKE: at the 'wide' end of the spectrum, the sharpness edge of the X-T20 evaporates, and the X-T20 is trounced by the Nikon (to me). It is interesting that this is a true 1:1 comparison in that the effective focal lengths and apertures are identical here, yet the Nikon is much wider for some reason.
7 Nikon at 85mm wide open - high contrast target
8. Fujifilm:
MY TAKE: the bokeh is technically 'better' on the nikon, but I find the foreground more (actually much more) pleasing in the Fujifilm image. Just me? EDIT: when resized to 800 pixels wide, this images appear MUCH closer in clarity than they did at full resolution.
9: Nikon - subject Isolation (blurring out a car in the background)
10. Fuji
MY TAKE: (btw, this is just the back of a carved tree trunk shot to test the cameras). As expected, an easy win in subject isolation for the bigger camera. The car is a dark discernible blob with the x-t20 and is pretty much totally blown out by the D610
CONCLUSIONS FROM ROUND 1- really surprised by the clarity of the the Fujifilm kit lens. Not sure if the Nikon missed focus a hair or perhaps I was inside of the minimum focusing distance or who knows, but the X-T20 repeatedly rendered sharper images. Impressive. Especially in light of the the much larger and easier to use viewfinder in the FX Nikon. The EVF in the Fujifilm is nice but REALLY small.
I can continue the shootout in terms of other subjects (wildlife, macro, night photography, etc) if there is any interest, but it this is a one-and-done, it was still interesting, at least to Peeb!
The Nikon has a larger sensor and a wider aperture (Nikon: 3.5 to 4.5 versus Fuji: 3.5 to 5.6), which makes the bokeh portion of the shootout kinda unfair at maximum focal length, but let's take a look anyhow! BTW, everything will be shot in RAW, processed in photoshop ONLY to reside to 800x534 size to fit here. There will be no other adjustments to skew results one way or the other.
So, here we go...
1. Nikon at max focal length, wide open:
2. Fujifilm, max focal length and wide open:
MY TAKE: The color and bokeh win clearly goes the the full frame Nikon, but the sharpness is a no-contest win for the little X-T20. Hmmm.... this is gonna be interesting.
3. Nikon- waterdrop
4. Fujifilm waterdrop
MY TAKE: Again, the little Fuji-that-could seems a bit sharper, and there is just something kinda... cloudy?... about the Nikon bokeh to my eye. Odd.
5. Nikon at minimum focal length, wide open (to test for clarity only)
6. Same shot with the Fujifilm
MY TAKE: at the 'wide' end of the spectrum, the sharpness edge of the X-T20 evaporates, and the X-T20 is trounced by the Nikon (to me). It is interesting that this is a true 1:1 comparison in that the effective focal lengths and apertures are identical here, yet the Nikon is much wider for some reason.
7 Nikon at 85mm wide open - high contrast target
8. Fujifilm:
MY TAKE: the bokeh is technically 'better' on the nikon, but I find the foreground more (actually much more) pleasing in the Fujifilm image. Just me? EDIT: when resized to 800 pixels wide, this images appear MUCH closer in clarity than they did at full resolution.
9: Nikon - subject Isolation (blurring out a car in the background)
10. Fuji
MY TAKE: (btw, this is just the back of a carved tree trunk shot to test the cameras). As expected, an easy win in subject isolation for the bigger camera. The car is a dark discernible blob with the x-t20 and is pretty much totally blown out by the D610
CONCLUSIONS FROM ROUND 1- really surprised by the clarity of the the Fujifilm kit lens. Not sure if the Nikon missed focus a hair or perhaps I was inside of the minimum focusing distance or who knows, but the X-T20 repeatedly rendered sharper images. Impressive. Especially in light of the the much larger and easier to use viewfinder in the FX Nikon. The EVF in the Fujifilm is nice but REALLY small.
I can continue the shootout in terms of other subjects (wildlife, macro, night photography, etc) if there is any interest, but it this is a one-and-done, it was still interesting, at least to Peeb!
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