Seriously thinking about replacing my MP240 with this. I mostly shoot film these days, but do like to carry a digital on trips. I like the lower ISO and higher shutter speed, plus I don't really use the back screen anyway. The only thing missing is a live view option for non M-Mount lenses. (i know you can use the connected app, but that's going to hella awkward to use)
While I wait for a M12-D, where they fix all the limitations of the M11. Also agreed hope they keep the mechanical shutter.
The B&W mode sounds interesting, but it's also fundamentally different from a monochrome sensor so I'll be keeping my M9M
Messsucher wrote:
Seriously thinking about replacing my MP240 with this. I mostly shoot film these days, but do like to carry a digital on trips. I like the lower ISO and higher shutter speed, plus I don't really use the back screen anyway. The only thing missing is a live view option for non M-Mount lenses. (i know you can use the connected app, but that's going to hella awkward to use)
While I wait for a M12-D, where they fix all the limitations of the M11. Also agreed hope they keep the mechanical shutter.
The B&W mode sounds interesting, but it's also fundamentally different from a monochrome sensor so I'll be keeping my M9M ...Show more →
You might need to buy the PIXII to give it a try, but I recommend keeping your M240 for now. You might still prefer the M240 over the new camera.
Messsucher wrote:
(i know you can use the connected app, but that's going to hella awkward to use)
Does the smartphone connection provide live view? Because that would be enough for me for things like film scanning and lens focus testing. Literally the only times I miss having live view in my M240 (I have an M 262 now).
ottokbre wrote:
Does the smartphone connection provide live view? Because that would be enough for me for things like film scanning and lens focus testing. Literally the only times I miss having live view in my M240 (I have an M 262 now).
Supposed to be a new feature for the Pixii. They have it on their website all the way at the bottom.
Fred Miranda wrote:
You might need to buy the PIXII to give it a try, but I recommend keeping your M240 for now. You might still prefer the M240 over the new camera.
Good point. I'm a sucker for black paint and I do like the images out of the MP240.
stgrove wrote:
The 0.67x magnification OVF is what bothers me along with the ES only mode.
Anyone out there who has one and can compare using the Pixii OVF versus a modern digital M OVF which ids around 0.72x magnification?
Isn’t 0.67 about what the M9 and M240 had? I had both those and now the 10r, and frankly I haven’t seen any practical difference in use with the OVF between my 10r and previous 240.
I've used M-mount lenses on a Hasselblad X1Dii. When you do that, you must use the electronic shutter. The capture is whatever you set your shutter speed, but the readout takes 300 ms! The Pixii is said to be much more rapid. Still, I rarely got rolling shutter effect. (You learn to freeze yourself a moment after pressing the shutter button to allow the readout to proceed.) But I don't do sports photos.
Desmolicious wrote:
Isn’t 0.67 about what the M9 and M240 had? I had both those and now the 10r, and frankly I haven’t seen any practical difference in use with the OVF between my 10r and previous 240.
The M9 had 0.72x and the M240 0.67x. M10's had 0.73x and M11's are about the same.
I loved the 2 choices for the M6 of 0.58x for wide and 0.85x for normal and tele. They might sell more cameras if they still offered that.
