androidlad

It's about FOV and perspective distortion. A 50mm lens on MF will have 50mm perspective distortion but equivalent of 35mm FOV, making things look "grand".

Of course it's easier to achieve shallow DOF with MF, but it's not the only thing.

Just now, Brian Williams said:

This was posted earlier in the thread, but if you look at his test of FLog converted to Eterna vs Eterna straight out of the camera, the FLog retained way more detail in the highlights, which makes sense. I don't know enough about DR mode to know if it wouldve made a difference here.

DR400 in Eterna would definitely make a difference, since they both share the same base ISO of 640. I'd think of it as Eterna LUT applied internally.

Just now, CyclingBen said:

@androidlad no, there really isn’t a reason to unless shooting F-Log.

What do you mean? Some of the shots have harsh highlight clipping, I think if you used DR400 with Eterna you would have better highlight roll-off. On X-T2 the DR mode isn't available in video mode.

Just now, CyclingBen said:

Here are some samples that I've been able to take in my limited amount of time at home the last few days.  All shot with the 18-55mm. Most of it is in 4k h.265 10 bit the rest is 120p 10 bit. I did do a touchscreen focus test as requested. I also made sure to put in some annoying stock music ?

 

 Thanks for the test, did you use DR400 with Eterna? You get about 12 stops of DR.

Again from the senior semicon enginner on Weibo:

X-T3 uses a Sony sensor, same 3.76um photosite architecture seen on medium format sensor IMX411/IMX461, with BSI, copper interconnect and 16bit ADC. Think of it as a crop from the medium format sensors.

According to this engineer, Samsung does have a APS-C sensor but it's only recently taped out, 50MP ISOCELL+HD which is equivalent to Sony's Exmor RS, but without the DRAM. 

Looks like 100P/120P on X-T3 went from line-skipping (X-T2/X-H1) to pixel-binning, sharp horizonal lines like the fence are clean unlike X-Trans III. Reasonable amount of detail but definitely not supersampled from the entire 1.29x sensor area.

9 hours ago, gethin said:

I hope it's towerjazz. Just because everything looks like sony these days ?

Yep, TowerJazz FF global shutter, according to a senior semicon engineer:

ETA mid Oct!

https://www.proav.co.uk/swit-5-5-inch-full-hd-4k-hdmi-lcd-monitor

I was told that TowerJazz, a CMOS sensor manufacturer, just signed off a large order with a big client for its FF global shutter sensor, the client is very likely to be Panasonic.