10-12MP, realy good 24-85/2-4 lens, realy good EVF, a bit more buttons and slightly bigger. I'd happily pay 1K for it. Oh yeah, and an option to disable the digital zoom.
I am happy as it is, at its price, with its IQ.
I just checked again the lens, and it's perfectly centered, remarkably sharp corner to corner. I have been obviously lucky, and I'd feel frustrated with a decentered lens.
Let me say that for many years we have had in Italy an urban legend wich said that only second choice items reached our market, beeing best ones mainly addressed to USA. I even suspected that perhaps there was something true in brands like Leica that always have individually controlled items...
Coming back to RX100, the only fault I found is the sharpness at short distance, say 2 feet or so: really, really bad apart a narrow spot in the middle...
I get much better results from Nikon 1, with 10mm, or kit zoom
BTW, perfect tool doesn't exist!
For 3d objects, perhaps. I had to shoot some wristwatches on a flat surface, and the ones near the edges werent acceptable even @ 6,3... Later I'll be able to show that pic.
ultrapix wrote:
I am happy as it is, at its price, with its IQ.
I just checked again the lens, and it's perfectly centered, remarkably sharp corner to corner. I have been obviously lucky, and I'd feel frustrated with a decentered lens.
Let me say that for many years we have had in Italy an urban legend wich said that only second choice items reached our market, beeing best ones mainly addressed to USA. I even suspected that perhaps there was something true in brands like Leica that always have individually controlled items...
Coming back to RX100, the only fault I found is the sharpness at short distance, say 2 feet or so: really, really bad apart a narrow spot in the middle...
I get much better results from Nikon 1, with 10mm, or kit zoom
BTW, perfect tool doesn't exist!...Show more →
Well the thing is... my copy can also be sharp (enough) from corner to corner, but it just seems to be dependant on:
A: the focal length
B: distance from the subject
Mine is coming in today. I hope to post some photos in the near future.
FlyPenFly, please stop posting all of these timepiece photos. You are inadvertantly killing my photography budget. Great work by the way, I've been admiring your photos on this forum and others.
Yakim Peled wrote:
10-12MP, realy good 24-85/2-4 lens, realy good EVF, a bit more buttons and slightly bigger. I'd happily pay 1K for it. Oh yeah, and an option to disable the digital zoom.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
i prefer 28/1.8 to 24/2, no more buttons, no bigger! the option to disable the digital zoom sounds fine though.
uscmatt99 wrote:
Mine is coming in today. I hope to post some photos in the near future.
FlyPenFly, please stop posting all of these timepiece photos. You are inadvertantly killing my photography budget. Great work by the way, I've been admiring your photos on this forum and others.
Thanks here's my latest. I can't remember if I shot this on my NEX-7 or OM-D though.
sebboh wrote:
i prefer 28/1.8 to 24/2, no more buttons, no bigger! the option to disable the digital zoom sounds fine though.
While I love prime lenses, I personally can't make do with a fixed prime lens. Then again, thousands of happy X100 owners put me in a minority. Size is also a personal issue. I find small cameras uncomfortable to shoot with. And I like physical buttons. I just love them. Well, horses for courses....
Yakim Peled wrote:
While I love prime lenses, I personally can't make do with a fixed prime lens. Then again, thousands of happy X100 owners put me in a minority. Size is also a personal issue. I find small cameras uncomfortable to shoot with. And I like physical buttons. I just love them. Well, horses for courses....
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
i didn't mean i wanted a prime, i just meant i'd rather have 28/1.8 as the current camera does at the wide end than sacrifice speed at 28mm in order to get 24mm at the wide end.
for me the whole point of this camera is it is really pocketable. if your're going to make it bigger i'll just use a NEX instead.
I always hang around with a bag so pocketability is not a requirement for me. I want it to be comfortable to shoot with. If the Canon G1 X would have proper AF I think I'd buy it.
Yakim Peled wrote:
I always hang around with a bag so pocketability is not a requirement for me. I want it to be comfortable to shoot with. If the Canon G1 X would have proper AF I think I'd buy it.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
why not just use an OM-D with the panasonic collapsible zoom? it has better iq than either the rx100 or g1-x and isn't noticeably bigger than the canon.
Smaller is certainly less comfortable when shooting, but then again, larger cameras are much less comfortable when your not shooting, ie; when you've got to drag them around with you.
Have to figure out if a camera like the RX100 is more likely to be riding in your pocket or in your hand shooting.
I think for most users, its not really a tool that they are going to be shooting hundreds of frames a day with or take exclusively on photo expeditions etc. Rather its something you can pull from your pocket when the need arises and take a few quick snaps with surprisingly quality.
When I want to bring a camera, the RX100 isn't high on the list. Its when I don't want to be burdened with a heavy backpack, or a camera swinging around my neck, or a man bag over my shoulder etc that I reach for the RX100.
Its for all those times where I don't think there is that much I really want/need to shoot on a given trip, but then when I use just my iPhone find myself wishing I had something a bit more serious.
Its that happy compromise of being the biggest/heaviest thing I'd be willing to carry around, and yet taking the best possible images of anything anywhere close to its size.
Yakim Peled wrote:
While I love prime lenses, I personally can't make do with a fixed prime lens. Then again, thousands of happy X100 owners put me in a minority. Size is also a personal issue. I find small cameras uncomfortable to shoot with. And I like physical buttons. I just love them. Well, horses for courses....
