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I wonder if anyone is shooting with the RX10, especially now with the announcement of the Panasonic FX1000?
I was able to borrow one back in January for a few weeks. At first I was a bit skeptical about it and didn't really want to bring it along with my regular gear (Canon 1DX, Leica M9/M240. But I gave it a try, primarily as an alternative to the Canon to accompany my Leica kit for more reach when needed. And you know, I was really pleasantly surprised and impressed by it. Bottom line was that it was fun to use, despite some of my Sony UI dislikes. More fun than the a7 cameras, IMO. And it held up pretty well out in the cold too. One time I got on a shooting tear out in the snow and managed to get about 650 frames with battery power to spare!
Does it replace what I already have? Not from an image quality point of view. Not surprisingly the 1" sensor runs into noise problems sooner than full frame 18-24MP. And while the lens is good, I wouldn't consider it to be great. It's a bit soft at the long end and benefits from stopping down a couple stops for better across frame performance. I think it's better at the wide end. While edges look a bit stretched/smeared, most of the image is pretty good and sharp enough. Cropped a bit and at first glance it could rival some of my Leica glass for structure and sharpness, though there is still a bit of that small sensor look to everything. IS works really well and is useful, as is the built-in ND. At some point between f/5.6-8 diffraction becomes problematic and for some images I'll be posting, to get really deep depth of field, I tried f/16. Fine details suffers the more you stop it down and is very noticeable when viewing at actual pixel size, but given the 20MPs, stair step downsizing of images with some sharpening can minimize this some of the time.
Perhaps it's appropriate that this thread petered out at the end of January, which is when I used the camera... though just getting around to processing these files now...
Snow & ice. WB set pretty low to get the strong blues and pulled back in post for a moody depiction of the sunlight reflecting off the ice:
http://ronscheffler.com/samples/fm/rx10/20140131_0465.jpg
http://ronscheffler.com/samples/fm/rx10/20140131_0469.jpg
Anyone else out there with images to share?
More to come from me...
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