Your Favorite Camera Sensor?

[nikon_sam]

Here are a few samples from my Fuji FinePix S3 Pro...it has a similar sensor to the S5...but I believe the S5 has a slightly better one...

 

[nikon_sam]

 

[Phil_F_NM]

I always loved the sensor in the Nikon D2Hs.
When it worked, my old M9 was good but just an excuse to use my lenses.

My favorite of all time was Kodak Plus-X.

Phil Forrest

 

[zuikologist]

I agree on the Pentax, gorgeous colour. Converted black and white also looks good.

The old Sony 6mp in the Pentax *istD series was kinda wonderful in its own right. I believe the same sensor was in the Nikon D70 and D100, and the Epson R-D1 (??).

This was done with the original Pentax *istD.


IMGP4249 by Colton Allen, on Flickr

 

[Peter_S]

Mine, overall, is the M8/M8.2 sensor.

 

[jsrockit]

Nikon Df sensor and the 1st and 3rd version of Fuji XTrans.

 

[jarski]

Leica M8/9 sensor with jpeg engine of those cameras.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Out to Lunch, on Flickr. Lang Co Beach in-between Da Nang and Hue. Epson R-D1 - CV collapsible Heliar 2/50.

 

[DwF]

Leica X 113, certainly calibrated well for IPA

 

[Dogman]

The 12 mp Olympus. Really beautiful colors.

I'm also very happy with the 16 mp Fuji X-Trans. Fuji colors are not my favorite but they can be tweaked in Lightroom. It's the tonality of the B&W images that really stand out for me.

I'm referring to working with the Raw files in both cases.

 

[PKR]

This thread is akin to telling someone about your favorite film(s).

I haven't found any combination of sensor and converter that look like my Creo Kodachrome 64 scans. Maybe, some day?

The Fuji X-Trans with C1 raw converter (and others) produces pretty cool looking black and white files and prints.

 

[bayernfan]

my GXR does a pretty good job at B&W. just crap enough to not look like the "too-sharp" digital trend happening now.

 

[shawn]

This thread is akin to telling someone about your favorite film(s).

I haven't found any combination of sensor and converter that look like my Creo Kodachrome 64 scans. Maybe, some day?

The Fuji X-Trans with C1 raw converter (and others) produces pretty cool looking black and white files and prints.

If you have a Mac try RPP64 with the Fuji files.

https://www.raw-photo-processor.com/RPP/Overview.html

Latest version is here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/raw-photo-processor/5wX3jZI6yZs

The interface takes a little getting used to but RPP64 has its own look that is beautiful. They have a K64 "Truefilm" simulation. I really like the Ektar simulation (called LF) they have. Along with the simulations also try out the different gamma curves, Film Like is good.

Shawn

 

[ptpdprinter]

How come no one likes the current cameras? This all sounds like nostalgia.

 

[raid]

It's interesting how many of us favor the results from early digital cameras, often with a small pixel site count, over the current stuff.

These people long for using film again! It is a fact. 😎😀:bang:

 

[jsrockit]

How come no one likes the current cameras? This all sounds like nostalgia.

I said third gen Fuji XTrans... which I thought was the 24mp models.

 

[ptpdprinter]

I said third gen Fuji XTrans... which I thought was the 24mp models.

Yeah, I should have said "most". I am a fan of the 24MP Fuji sensor too. But then I haven't had a dozen digital cameras to get nostalgic about. Before Fuji, I had a 5MP Canon Digital Elph and I thought the images sucked.

 

[Dogman]

How come no one likes the current cameras? This all sounds like nostalgia.

The Fuji X-E2S was my last "current" camera*. It is now being discontinued in favor of the X-E3. It is increasingly hard for me to own a "current" digital camera since the models change so frequently. I haven't used film in years but I still like how you could use a film camera for decades and it never went out of date. I still own the first new Nikon I ever bought--an F2, purchased in 1974 (now that is nostalgia).

*After writing this, I realized my Ricoh GRII is still "current". I like it a lot for the B&W I get from the Raw files.

 

[ptpdprinter]

I haven't used film in years but I still like how you could use a film camera for decades and it never went out of date. I still own the first new Nikon I ever bought--an F2, purchased in 1974 (now that is nostalgia).

Not sure why you think the XE2S is out of date just because it has been superceded by the XE3. The F2 didn't become out of date when they introduced the F3. I have an XE2 and an XT2. I don't hesitate to use the XE2, and I'm not planning to "update" it.

 

[jsrockit]

Yeah, I should have said "most". I am a fan of the 24MP Fuji sensor too. But then I haven't had a dozen digital cameras to get nostalgic about. Before Fuji, I had a 5MP Canon Digital Elph and I thought the images sucked.

This is the key... if you've had more than a handful, one might stand out... if not, then you just use what you have.