Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is not twice 12, it is 1.41 times as far as resolution is concerned. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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 >