Bob, that looks just like the kind of image you get from an older gen cellphone with a fairly lo-rez sensor, like 3-4 mpix.
How have you got the JPG rendering configured? They usually provide two adjustments. Eg: in Ricoh's case, number of pixels (image size) and JPEG Quality (1 to 4 stars). If you reduce the size I'd expect something like you're seeing here. But if that's the result from using the highest Q settings, then I'd never use anything but raw. :) On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > I went with some friends to the Lee Miller exhibition at the Imperial War > Museum today - it's a superb exhibition and I recommend it very highly. > > I took my Fuji X20 with me because one of my friends has one on my > recommendation but couldn't figure out how to set it to black & white only, > which is all she's interested in shooting. So before going I set mine up - I > normally shoot raw - so I would know what to do, and would look like I knew > what I was doing. > > I took some snaps to see how it all plays out. This is one of them, and I > have a question about it. > > http://www.web-options.com/IWM.jpg > > If you enlarge it to its full size the 'grain', for want of a better term, is > very blobby as if I'd shot it through rippled bathroom glass. I don't think > this is noise - the iso was 200 - but it's pretty ugly. I've never noticed > anything like this when rendering in b&w from raw. > > Is this normal for in-camera b&w jpg? > > Whether it's normal or not, what is the cause? > > Ta, > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
