Hi,
just wanted to report on this issue.
I’ve been shooting mostly with the ES lately even if I knew that noise would be a bit higher than with MS. I didn’t know that the difference is due to the fact that the bit depth changes from 14 to 12 to speed up pixel reading in ES.
Here is a simple test shot of the same scene with the same parameters except for the MS to ES switch. On the left MS 14 bit.
EDIT:
I always forget to tell about my camera: a Fuji X-T30
Ciao Marco!
Do you find the same difference if you develop the RAFs
in other “developers”? For instance Silkypix Fuji RFC, C1P Fuji, or in
Fuji X Raw Studio? Or perhaps in Adobe’s DNG converter?
Have fun,
Claes in Lund, Sweden
PS: Are you located at JM49JN?
If so: greetings from JO65OR!
Hi Claes!
I just tried with darktable and RT under linux. I should have a working copy of Capture One under Win, but I never use it… I don’t see why it should differ, but if I happen to be under win I’ll try it.
Yup, I’m at that location 
How do you know it? You’re a http://sibamanna.duckdns.org:8073/ user?
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Yes, this is a common occurrence.
In order to get a handholdable shutter scan time, they speed up the readout and that causes an increase in read noise.
