I have absolutely no doubt it will. It's the way I have my a6000 set up.Does anyone know if the new Rx1R2 will have a monochrome mode, with both viewfinder and jpeg images in black and white?
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I have absolutely no doubt it will. It's the way I have my a6000 set up.Does anyone know if the new Rx1R2 will have a monochrome mode, with both viewfinder and jpeg images in black and white?
I did not think much of that (EVF) but it is good to know it is better than the pricey/add on!I held it in hands today; viewfinder is less than perfect but still better than original one, tilting screen is great.
I love the little cross on the front. It is close enough to a Red Cross that it evokes a feeling of first aid and spiritual aid together.As I wait for the release of the Rx1r II, here is a shot from my original Rx1.
Horse Springs New Mexico.
The Rx1 went with me to every ghost town we could find in New Mexico.
I have no idea if I have a good copy. LOL
Nor do I put much stock in Rogers testing. He is looking at one facet of one part of a complex image chain. Even DXOMark is more relevant as at least they are looking at both sensor and lens together.
It turns out that I always use my sensor and lens together.
Plus, I care about bokeh, color, speed of focus, OIS, whether AF or not, weight, price, size and many other lens qualities. And I care about how an image looks on my phone, iPad, monitor and printed on various papers and with various processing effects and at various sizes.
So the lens tests I like are the ones I do. The next best, for me, are the photos I see taken with the same lens I have or want. Next best is reading the opinions of photographers whose work I like or whose opinions I trust.
With Roger's tests, I have no idea how his test results may or may not affect my image chain. It may be that the variability he reports is completely irrelevant to any image I would ever take. I expect this is the case frankly.
Having said all that ...
My RX1 remains my top choice, all-time, for any 35mm lens. I only wish it weren't connected to a body with such lousy AF.
Enter the seductive RX1r2. She is a sly beast. Her promise of endless IQ and the bounty of being forever mated to the word's most desirable sensor is a siren song destined to pull me ever closer. Closer ... Closer ...
-Bill
Im hearing Roger's name. Regarding testing..?Who is he and does he have a web site? Thanks, Eleanor
Don't buy it then. It includes the EVF and grip.Very Optimistic price, even by EU standards! :bugeyes:
Interesting point. Hopefully, at least within one camera ecosystem there won't be too much planned lens obsolescence.The general wisdom was, lenses are for the long term, cameras are consumables.
Well, I wonder whether that is still true, considering the fairly new practice of in camera lens corrections for ILC systems.
Of course, this doesn't matter for the Rx1r2 with its builtin lens.
BTW, what is the reparability and expected useful lifespan of this camera?
Interesting point. Hopefully, at least within one camera ecosystem there won't be too much planned lens obsolescence.
I feel that Sony is doing a credible job of preserving value in their A mount lenses.
I expect a decade or so of repairs on the RX1 cameras. It's not like Sony will fix old Walkman's or Betamax players. Old electronics are just not easily repaired. Once the parts are eventually gone no one is going to fabricate them again as the ancient technology won't even exist.
Hmm, that may apply to modern lenses as well.
Okay, time to get a CLA on my Leica IIIa.
Oh, wait, silly me, my iPhone 22 will probably crush my Stone Age 42MP A7r2 under its sleek, oh-so-sexy boots.
-Bill
I was going to raise the same question.Whatever happened to the 'curved' sensor that Sony had been working on.
I thought for sure it would be in this iteration of the RX1 series because, as I understand it, it would have made it possible (with optimization for the curved sensor, of course) for Zeiss to fashion the 35mm f2.0 lens into a 35mm f1.8 without increasing the size of the lens that's mounted on the body.
These are the ones that ring for me in your list.Here are the Pros.
Serve as my get my *** out the door and go shoot. I actually need this one for my head. You get lazy after 40 years
My vacation camera which when I bring my system I wind up never even using it. No excuse camera
I never buy a camera for me personally , I have no real Guy toy its all business gear. Hard to explain
Cons there is really only one that smacks me immediately cost. My ultimate answer to that. So how many lives do you have i get one not sure about anyone else. ROTFLMAO
I believe they shelved it because of worries that a camera the size of a Contax T would be considered a "toy" and decided to go with the heavy Zony lens.I was going to raise the same question.
Perhaps it still needed more work or was not yielding the improvements hoped for yet?