p.60 #1 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
A while back off one of the Japanese product launch documents I found prices for the OVF and EVF in Yen; using the exchange rate at the time it looked like the OVF could in at $620-$640 which led me to believe it might be priced at $599 - already a hefty premium over the existing Zeiss OVF's in other focal lengths.
Similarly the EVF looked like it could be priced at $499 USD, a price more in keeping with the current EVF for the NEX-5N etc. Both prices are too high relative to other almost identical products, but the final pricing in the US for the accessories has not been set, so perhaps they'll come in at more agreeable costs to RX1 owners. That might even be a strategy Sony would employ after so much on-line angst (mostly elsewhere) over the camera price /and/ accessories.
Whether the price estimates I cooked up are accurate or not, one thing that is certain is the Zeiss optical finder was priced higher than the EVF.
As for the virtual 50 millimetre lens what I'm really looking are framing lines more than anything, but I doubt they'd implement the feature that way. Granted the "smart teleconverter" feature is probably more useful to Sony as a marketing device then it is to photographers.
Dave at Imaging-Resource mentioned there are only 4 RX1's available and more than 20 journalists / reviewers / web personalities. Time with the camera is at a premium.
p.60 #4 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
Phoblographer weighs in:
Though I was a bit offput by the RX1 when I tested the pre-production model, I’ve spent an entire day shooting with it and I’m convinced that with the electronic viewfinder attached, this camera will best nearly anything out there for street photography. The ergonomics are great, the manual focusing is awesome when combined with peaking, the image quality is top notch, and it is pretty darn small.
Something else a Sony rep and I discovered. The RX1 has wireless flash control built in: however, the pop-up flash doesn’t actually act like a master. It is only there for attached Sony flashes. That’s a bummer too; but it could just be the fact that myself and journalists with all coverage coming out right now on the web are dealing with near final production quality units....Show more →
At the link above I think you'll find an exclusive first - an actual high ISO comparison between the RX1 and two other cameras, importantly, the A99, and the Canon 5D Mk II. The latter two are represented by raw images while the RX1 has only JPEG representations available at present.
p.60 #6 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
Last three images in this IR gallery show the results of the "smart teleconverter" function, very much as expected from an in-camera crop. Full, 1.4X, 2X:
jonrock: Huff noted in this morning's posting that the EVF is better than that in the NEX-7. Interesting. He also commented on the WhiteMagic display technology Sony used for the rear LCD - seems to work and enable use in bright outdoor conditions.
p.60 #8 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
michaelwatkins wrote:
jonrock: Huff noted in this morning's posting that the EVF is better than that in the NEX-7. Interesting. He also commented on the WhiteMagic display technology Sony used for the rear LCD - seems to work and enable use in bright outdoor conditions.
I noticed that too, that would be a great news.
I don't even look at those samples, any preproduction JPEG only pics, either from Sony or Zeiss s@cked big time.
Give me the camera and let me shoot RAW, that will tell me how good or bad it really is...
I kind of feel it's really really great... One thing - I hope they didn't let the base ISO quality go down
just to get some great high ISO.
p.60 #9 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
snowboarder wrote:
I noticed that too, that would be a great news.
I don't even look at those samples, any preproduction JPEG only pics, either from Sony or Zeiss s@cked big time.
Give me the camera and let me shoot RAW, that will tell me how good or bad it really is...
yeah, they were right by me in SF too. don't know why they didn't ask me if i wanted to test it out...
p.60 #12 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
That's very nice looking noise!
The camera on paper offers 3 more stops of sensitivity than what I currently use most, but from the looks of things, there's at least 3 if not 4 or 5 stops of more usable sensitivity, subject permitting. The extra latitude with relatively low and nice looking noise would be very nice.
p.60 #13 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
Sony's pre-release images showed some beautiful noise, if I may say so - truly aesthetic, lol, so it does not interfere at all with imaging and may even assist. The new sensor may be a killer app.
Note the barrel distortion in the 2nd image. I would estimate this at about 2%, which isn't much worse than the Canon f/1.4. So we see, in particular, that this is not a design with huge barrel distortion that has to be corrected during the raw conversion, and the linear DNG that apparently triggers in Adobe workflows.
Steve Huff also notes in his blog entry that the camera defaults to distortion correction OFF but it can be set to ON. This is exactly how I would want it, and how I use my Canon f/1.4 too.
p.60 #20 · Sony RX1 FF Mirrorless (Original 2012 thread)
'it's WAY too expensive'. In time it won't be.
Seeing Huff's night shots, the huge DR (meaning great highlight tone gradation and roll-off) and focus fade character and the raw power of the new sensor at any ISO mans this is an instant classic. Esp for street.
