[Leica] Big news D600 and RX1

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I see the Sony's MP's is 24.7MP the Nikons 24.3.
So the weight of the two cameras the MP's and the format sizes are virtually
equal coincidently for these two released today cameras.
Its just that the Nikon needs a lens and the lightest ones I have weigh 4 or
5 ounces. 120 or 150 grams.

The Sony built in lens looks like a Zeiss and is gorgeous and is a f/2 Carl
Zeiss Sonnar T* 35mm.  Made by who knows? Sony maybe.
I'd like to know who designed the typography.



Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:37:33 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1
> 
> 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/
> 
> 
> 
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