>>4236037>FlawedIt is. Waxy tones and lack of detail. It has high contrast resolution, but poor color resolution, in a world where most detail is made out of subtle gradients of color. Fuji may have designed it on the fujifags favorite and most hated subject: the monochrome high contrast test chart. It's basically designed for scanning line art and photographing fabric.
>The noise it produces is pleasantHeh no, it's harsh.
>And grainlikeIt is a larger scale pattern version of standard bayer noise after turning on chroma noise reduction. Like the ISO was actually 2 stops higher, and it's getting so bad there appear to be holes in the image. Not like it is with film where you have clearly overlapping layers of random dye blobs.
The newer sensors almost seem to have twists and squiggles in the noise when the ISO gets too high.
Pleasing noise is like, bayer CCD and the older fuji sensor layouts like superCCD. Fuji noise is like you turned the ISO 2 stops above equivalence on your sony and went color noise reduction +200.
They were definitely cutting costs with xtrans. It's just an excuse to not pay for an AA filter.