Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's the RX100 not the RX1 sorry! It seems the RX1 is part of a progression of which I was not aware. The 100 had a "one inch" sensor which means who knows. The 1 had a full 24x36mm sensor. To me that makes it a true Rollei 35. Not sure if its a bigger camera than the 100. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:20:41 -0400 > To: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Conversation: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 > Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 > > "The Rollei S35 Rides Again" > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/sony_rx100.shtml > > > Mark William Rabiner > > >> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:05:39 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Conversation: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and > From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:20:41 -0400 > To: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Conversation: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 > Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 > > "The Rollei S35 Rides Again" > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/sony_rx100.shtml > > > Mark William Rabiner > > >> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:05:39 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Conversation: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 >> >> WU-1B >> Put that puppy on your D600 and it shoots the image right into your cell >> phone >> so you can pretend you shot it with your cell phone and upload it to your >> friends. Also you can really take the picture with your cell phone using >> your >> WU-1B thing. It makes your nikon go off. >> >> 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 06:55:34 -0400 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 >>> >>> Bottom line at the top I forgot.... >>> While the nikon costs an even two grand USD I see now the Sony is closer >>> to >>> Three grand. Just under. But comes with a lens built in. and fits in >>> your >>> pocket if your pocket is on the bigger side. >>> >>> 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 06:49:11 -0400 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 >>>> >>>> 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/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information