I think this is another of the images that I like from this particular shoot. The leaves in the foregroud are in focus with the backgroud out of focus. Bokeh is good and not at all funky. Image taken at f2 with -1 EC dialed in.

Nothing special in this image but what did impress me was the fact that when I look at the rust/reddish  coloured substance they use in theses places, is that I can actually see all the different corns on the floor. That to me is really amazing.

How does it render foliage detail. Well right now I can't say much about the raw files but these jpg image holds up pretty well. Looking at the green leaves at bottom right and the brownish leaves hanging down the wall in the center, I can't fault it at all. The real test of course will come when I get around to developing some raw files. From what I have heard, people aren't too happy with the X-Trans sensor support at present, but I think it can only get better with each release of the raw software. 

How would the camera hold up to this type of scene. The are towards the left of the image was quite bright and relecting off the water. This image shows a lot more detail in the highlights than I could actually see. I expected the image to be underexposed and the dark ares towards the upper left on the image to be really dark. My conclusion here is thaat it managed to hold the highlight on the water while detail is still visible in the dark regions which tells me the dynamic range of the X100S is very good indeed. Only after looking at the image for some time did I realize that there were more kois in the pond than I remember seeing.

My favourite test for all cameras I buy, checking out the red channel. As you can see there is no blowing out of the red channel at all. The greens are also nicely saturated but not blown. Although quite dark I didn't use any exposure compensation for this image. It's nearly an OOC jpg. Very nice and the sharpness is there too.

Testing how the camera deald with front lit subjects. I expected this to be really dark but the camera mastered the exposure really well. I had to very slightly brighten the luminosity in this image but nothing like the levels I would have to do with other systems.

Another attempt at manual focus. Normally with this sort of image, when using AF the camera will not focus on the relection but on what is closest to the camera. Using manual focus you can override this by focusing on the reflection, which is how it should be. As you can see manual focus works pretty well.

After a lot of talk on some forums regarding mushy foliage with the Fujifilm cameras, I thought I would just test this one out. Well, either this doesn't happen in the jpg files, or it happens only during the raw conversion. I think that now I've seen the files in jpg I think this applies to raw files only. I'll have time to test those out with LR 4.4 very soon and I'll post a comparison to those who are interested.