Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Today the D600 new Nikon body is announced which weights less than a Nikon F or Canon F1 and is full frame and cost an even two grand. 24 mps which his twice twelve not three times. This puts it at the top of my short list for what I'll be proably shooting with in the very near future. But equally exciting to me is the first full frame true compact camera just out today. Its from Sony and is called the RX1 http://tinyurl.com/9ddfogv In the old film days a compact camera would take 35mm film and few were half frame. They were full frame and were worth taking seriously. Now with digital over the past decade compacts get announced and bought and used as if thee were the same. But he sensor sizes though having high megapixels were stupidly small. They were toy cameras to me not worthy of being part of a Leica orientated conversation. Sony has finally cracked the paradigm and came out with a pocket camera with a full frame sensor proving it could be done. I think this shakes the foundations of the camera industry and will be a boom for serious image makers such as myself who really like to have a camera with them at all times. My D700 with the 60mm macro on it now weighs more than my Rolleiflex 2.8f. And darned hard to lug with me every day for years as I have done. It is 1435 grams. The D600 is 759.7 grams and the RX1 The Sony is 782 grams with lens which I don't think comes off. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/