For the past two years and most of the four before that, I’ve been post-processing images on ipad. Even in 2024, apps are almost like the stone age compared to software available for PC and Mac OS. Photomator has made some nice strides in denoising, but it’s nowhere near Topaz or DXO. Lightroom Mobile, a necessary evil, is like a toy compared to the desktop version.

On top of it, the a6700’s sensor, which I’ve never liked on previous cameras, gives fits when it comes to noise reduction and sharpening. Even the slightest bit of sharpening can produce a grid-like pattern in images akin to banding. It made me wonder if the SOOC jpeg files might be better. They certainly couldn’t be any worse, I reasoned.

So I shot this afternoon in jpeg only. And, yep, the camera’s output is WAY better than what I can get from any of the four or five apps I’ve been using. The image below is cropped at about 30% and was shot at ISO 6400. Can’t beat that working from raw.

So it looks as though I’ll be a jpeg shooter now whenever I use the a6700. And maybe, just maybe, I might find something to like about this sensor . . .

a6700/70-350mm G . . .