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Sony RX100 - getting started
- Thread starter Terry
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Godfrey
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Don't do it, Peter! Go for the X2.
(Just cheerleading for the other team... It's a pastime. ;-)
Jorgen Udvang
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jonoslack
Active member
Jono & Uwe
you are not really helping me in staying away from that camera
Peter
I'm a fully paid up subscriber to the X2 - why stint yourself Peter . . . . . get both! :banghead:
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jonoslack
Active member
Your images are fantastic Uwe - innocent or not I'm not so sure!> I'm a minor danger compared to you!
You are in Britain and deserve the gold. I mostly show innocent images
jonoslack
Active member
What was wrong with it?
m_driscoll
New member
The local 'head' shop and a conversation I had no business interrupting.
RX100; 10.4mm; 1/30s @ f/5; ISO 800
RX100; 37.1mm; 1/125s @ f/4.9; ISO 200
Cheers, Matt
Zenfolio | Matt Driscoll
RX100; 10.4mm; 1/30s @ f/5; ISO 800
RX100; 37.1mm; 1/125s @ f/4.9; ISO 200
Cheers, Matt
Zenfolio | Matt Driscoll
Quentin_Bargate
Well-known member
RX100 does stock food photography. Possibly not the first choice for this kind of thing, but proves its versatility!
if it helps you Peter...and I am also interested in the x2...but...Jono & Uwe
you are not really helping me in staying away from that camera
Peter
Tom
Just got it and really liking the RX100. Thinking about consolidating on OM-D and RX100 and selling Nex 5n/7 and Canon FF. I like small cameras, hate dragging my big Canon dSLR + glass around. Just wish Oly/Panasonic/Sony would do hybrid CDAF/PDAF on mirrorless. So far, DR on the RX100 seems not that great, but otherwise really like IQ.
DSC00024 by DarrellC, on Flickr
DSC00024 by DarrellC, on Flickr
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Yeah, if there is one thing that bothers me about the RX100, it is the DR. Everything else is really impressive. Hopefully we will see a small improvement in RAW.
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Did I say I was comparing it to anything? I was confirming a valid observation made by another forum member.
I'm a big fan of this camera as it sets a benchmark for size vs. performance, with an impressive amount of creative control. But it is simply the latest greatest and will be eclipsed as digital compacts get closer to the DR and shallow DOF capabilities of 35mm film compacts like the Contax T3.
Until then, I am enjoying it.
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I wouldn't call it great but I also recognize my bar may be set higher. I still have a collection of film compacts loaded with Portra in regular rotation.
If you insist on comparing to small sensor compacts like the S100 or S95, then of course it is an improvement.
Regardless, it is a landmark camera and a great step forward.
jonoslack
Active member
Probably Not a higher bar - maybe I'm being too positive - Great is probably not the right word.
Still, the DR is okay for a small sensor camera, and I challenge you to get better IQ than that at 6400 ISO pushing your portra! I don't suppose many of your film compacts have a 28-100 f1.8 / f4.9 zoom either - or autofocus as fast and intelligent as this.
On the other hand, I don't see what it has to do with a Contax T3 - surely you should be comparing that little beauty with the Fuji X100 and the Leica X2?
These benefits in the RX100 do have some downsides, what seems to me remarkable about this little camera is that the downsides are so minimal compared to the advantages.
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Jono - I'd give it a solid "good" but again, we are only talking DR here. My original comment was that this was the ONLY qualm I have with the camera. I can live with the not so shallow DOF because of all the "advantages" as you say. And this was not a digital vs. film argument - I was simply commenting on the DR performance.
I'm not much of a zoom guy, so wish that the RX100 was a fixed lens but maybe we'll see that in a m4/3 or APS-C version of the Ricoh GRD as rumored.
And I absolutely do think the RX100 merits comparison to the T3 due to their comparable size and IQ. The RX100 is in the IQ ballpark for less contrasty scenes stopped down a bit. The X100 and X2 are bigger than the T3 and not truly pocketable as the T3 and Ricoh GR are.
This is the category of camera I am most interested in. FF DSLRs are already amazing and continuing to improve, and we have excellent mid-sized interchangeable systems with decent largish sensors but no compacts that give us that same level of IQ as their film equivalents. The RX100 gets us very close but still does not compare to a T3 shot at 35mm f/2.8 - the shallow DOF creamy rendering and sharpness is just in a different league. I plan on doing a side by side comparison when I get back home from our road trip.
Cheers,
Chad