Hi,
What Rishi mailed me, they revised their protocols to assure optimal focus. But he said that the final images had bad focus.
I am not doing lens testing a lot but I learned to use an automated focusing rail and shoot say 40 images 2.5 mm apart to get optimal focus.
With focus by wire focusing, firmware is involved in maintaining focus, especially with linear motors.
Best regards
Erik
I'm glad they confirmed what I suspected, that they mis-focused.
However, this does not alarm me in any way, nor does it trigger any concerns over the Fuji lenses or getting sharp images out of the GFX 100 sensor. I have seen occasional mis-focuses from DP Review tests for years, even on little micro 4/3 sensor 16mp images. So this has nothing to do with increasingly difficult tolerances, lots of pixels, etc.
Over the years, most of the images they produce in that scene have been reasonably, expectedly sharp, just there is the occasional miss. I see this as nothing more than that and DPReview's response confirms that.
Steve Hendrix/CI