adam1
lvl.4
Flight distance : 326421 ft
United States
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First, let me say I know what you mean by water color... However, I would describe my problems/ short comings with the x5 imagery as really soft, that takes some tweaking to get the sharpening just right. (STILL WORKING ON THAT... LOL). By the way, I don't sharpen in LR or CAMERA RAW... Sharpening is the LAST thing in my workflow. Then I you a combination of sharpening routines. depending on the frequency of the image is how I sharpen.
ok, so I grabbed just the last image and the second none image, and threw it into CAMERA-RAW... with stills I wouldn't shoot LOG. (NOTE: I didn't check to see if that even did anything to the DNG) What I'm trying to say is that you don't want the camera to do any thinking for you. Get your exposure right (whether shooting for Highlights or Shadows if you can't avoid clipping both) you're on a moving platform, no matter how still you think it is, and focus. Try shooting f8/ focus to infinity and fit everything else where it needs to be (ISO/ Shutter as long as ISO not too high and shutter not too slow).
So, regarding your images, I thought the center was where you were having the most problems. Is there a smudge on your lens? The edges seem sharper. At first I thought it was a combo of softening or noise reduction and the smoke/ heat signature from the train, but it's still there on the non train image. Also, try just zeros 0,0,0 and see if that helps. I've shot stills with both x3 and x5. The x5 is much better, but they don't compare to my eos 1dx or 5diii. But then again, I don't feel like sending them up with choice glass! Nor spend 8K to get my cameras to altitude.
finally, I am eager to see if it's user (both mine and yours) error, or the x5, albeit way better than the x3, just isn't ready for prime time.
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