"Rainfall" (Fuji S5 pro @ ISO800 with AF-D Nikkor 50/1.8 @ 1/320s f/1.8) -- taking pictures out of the window instead of walking the dog ...too much rain.I've been playing with the new camera in the last days (of course!), and two differences to my old Nikon D70s were most noticeable right from the start, they are the metering and the quality of the JPEG files right out of the camera.
I've been shooting raw+JPEG with the S5 so far - and the JPEGs are good enough for 90% of all shots. I wonder if the remaining 10% really are that much better when I go the manual raw processing route - in other words: is it really worth shooting raw? Quite interesting question for me, since in my opinion, the Nikon D70s is really a "raw only" camera (at least in these days now that the newer cameras offer much more pleasing JPEGs right out of the camera, too). The JPEG quality of the D70s is inferior, as there's so much more in the raw files that you can carve out. The Fuji is different. The JPEGs are simply... charming.
The other BIG difference is the metering. I was used to fiddle around with exposure compensation a lot more with the D70s. I don't know if it is owed to the higher dynamic range of the Fuji, but most of the time, I simply don't have to worry about exposure compensation. I'm still surprised by that here and there, its that good.
And a noteworthy detail: the raw files are nearly 25MB each - my first harddisk ever (attached to my Amiga 500 with an external MFM controller card) had a capacity of 20MB...
