True, you can change lenses on the bigger systems, but they're also a lot bigger, not to mention $500 to $700 more expensive. The video moiré seems more severe. Though it's priced too high to compare to the Olympus Stylus, the Sony RX1 is aimed at a more serious, well-heeled set of photographers -- the pro or serious enthusiast looking for a high quality camera that's also easy to bring along. Those shooting video will do well to remember to remove the strap and D-rings before shooting anything important on a windy day. Og da det er et Sony-kamera, er videokvaliteten af høj klasse. If you want to avoid the issue entirely, you're going to have to turn shading compensation off, even if you're shooting RAW, and then handle any shading corrections in Photoshop. The thing is, this color shading didn't appear in all our shots, just some of them in both RAW and JPEG. You can't view images and video in sequential order; you can either view photos or video, but not both. Even without close calibration, though, it's clear that the Sony RX1's lens is the sharpest, most uniform full-frame 35mm optic we've ever seen. Nikon's D600 leaves behind a bit more luminance and chroma noise, following Nikon's generally more conservative approach to noise suppression, and as a result maintains more detail in the red leaf swatch than the RX1. Needing to find the "sweet spot" of the lens became a non-issue. However, AF-C is still the default for video shooting (as noted, an AF-C indicator appears on the LCD screen in movie mode), so perhaps it was just a matter of not being able to maintain still-resolution focus accuracy, and the feature worked fine for video recording. When scrolling back through the files, it will appear to have skipped right over the video files you just captured. The Sony RX1R II is the kind of camera that turns heads. Given that Sony has been in the video business for a long time, and has delivered great video performance on many of their recent still camera models, though, it came as an unpleasant surprise to us that the RX1 wasn't similarly capable in the video area. If it bothers you, you're going to have to give up some sharpness to get rid of it, since the only cure is an image with less high-frequency detail. With shading compensation enabled, we got relatively uniformly-exposed frames, but also with the color tints. Note that 1,440 x 1,080 mode uses rectangular pixels (1.33:1), so movies are 16:9 aspect ratio, despite pixel dimensions that would suggest a 4:3 ratio. After some pondering, I think it comes down to this: no labels. Like much of the DPReview staff, editor Barney Britton is a self-proclaimed super-fan of the 35mm focal length. While the Sony RX1's optional Zeiss viewfinder is a beautiful piece of optics, I still honestly didn't see the appeal of it. The table above shows thumbnails of original images displaying the problem, as well as versions of the same shots that had their color saturation boosted by 100% in Photoshop to make the color tinges obvious. Here in the Sony DSC-RX1, the company is showing off exactly what it can do. is that the RX1R lacks an anti-aliasing filter on its 24MP CMOS sensor. It's hard to get a sense for this from typical product shots, so I took a couple of photos to help convey a sense of scale. The virtues of full frame at high ISO are shown once again when comparing the RX1 to the NEX-7, where the mosaic label's detail suffers particularly. Then there's the lens. I liked the RX1's user interface quite a bit. It is quite evident throughout the test in many areas of the house, and while you may not always be shooting architectural objects, the issue is prominent enough to affect a lot of potential shooting situations, where any geometric patterns are present in the shot. With shading compensation off. Featured 6 Months With The Sony RX1 By Simi Tometi January 23, 2015 83. In the as-shot images on the left, if you look closely at the tops and bottoms, you'll be able to see the red/cyan or cyan/red tint difference between them. I guess it says something about how much more time I've now spent shooting with digital than I had with film earlier in my life. Better Dynamic Range & Color depth are also part of the benefits. This does produce sharper-looking images, but as they say, there's never a free lunch: The low-pass filters were there for a reason, which is to reduce various forms of aliasing. Really wealthy photographer’s. Upload Settings USB Connection USB LUN Setting USB Power Supply PAL/NTSC Selector (only for 1080 50i-compatible models) Audio signals Version Language This was likely a deliberate choice on Sony's part, and given the price point of the camera, one that's probably justified: Experienced digital shooters know that once you've lost your highlights, they're gone forever, so you generally want to be very conservative in your exposures to preserve them. I often carry a pocket camera of some sort when I don't want to lug along a bulky DSLR, but it's always a painful experience, knowing how poor the images will be indoors or after dark. The RX1's optional FDA-EV1MK EVF has all the usual benefits of its class, including the ability to simulate exposure effects (including picture styles and creative filters), the (optional) availability of all the camera status indicators normally seen on the screen, as well as things like the camera orientation display to help you keep your horizons flat and verticals vertical. The Sony RX1, whether it's for you or not, answers a sincere desire in the marketplace for a return to that full-frame sensor size with excellent quality optics in a very small package. The Sony RX1 is the world’s smallest full-frame camera, one that incorporates the same 24.3MP Exmor CMOS sensor that starred in its launch partner, the Sony Alpha 99 (albeit, Sony says, without the A99’s phase-detect AF assist points). I realize I'm spending a lot of time on the RX1's user interface, but that's because it had such a profound impact on my experience with the camera. Man kan lagre HD-video i fuld 1080p/50-kvalitet med respektable 28 Mbit/s videostrøm, som giver støjfri og skarpe videobilleder. (Ah, the lens!) ), and the customizable controls meant I spent a lot more time taking pictures than digging through menus. Note that some of those colors between the grout lines in the mosaic image are actually there, and the Nikon D600 leaves them while the RX1 cleans them up. It is an expert-level compact with a 24 megapixel full size sensor (notably used by the Sony α99).The sensitivity ranges from 100 to 25600 ISO. Meanwhile, the Sony RX1 sets a new benchmark for compact camera performance, earning it a resounding Dave's Pick as one of the best -- if not the outright best -- cameras of 2012. Sweep Panorama is probably familiar to everyone by now; you can capture a panoramic shot by just holding down the shutter button and "sweeping" the camera in front of you. It's made for those who would gravitate to the Leica M9, or who, back in the film days, would have spent a lot of money on a Contax G or T-series film camera -- cameras with their own acclaimed Carl Zeiss lenses. The 30p MP4 and 24p AVCHD test videos showed more rolling shutter artifacts than the 60p AVCHD video, which is similar to what we've observed in other cameras. Sliding the flash release right pops up the flash. The latter are among the most severe we've seen with that particular subject. Say what? A few in the press room at launch barely stifled a few guffaws at the price, because up to that point we'd been thinking it compared to the RX100, which comes in at a high $650 relative to its pocket competition -- but not that high. Some of the settings are displayed as "virtual dials" on the LCD while you're changing them. For the more advanced shooter wishing to use an external microphone, the RX1 has a 3.5mm microphone jack located on the left side of the camera. The target was illuminated with our carefully-balanced HMI studio lights, so illumination was uniform to less than 1/10 EV. For me, that's something that happens all too seldom, and is an accomplishment of the highest order. I could certainly snap a shot single-handed, but found myself using a two-handed grip almost all the time: Pretty much all of the controls are on the right side, so you'll find yourself supporting the camera with your left hand while you make adjustments with your right, and of course, you'll use your left hand to make any aperture adjustments anyway. Both the RX1 and the RX1R are fixed lens compact cameras that are equipped with a full frame sensor. At least for the sort of photography I'm interested in, the positives vastly outweigh the few negatives. Also important for hand-held HDR photography, the Sony RX1 micro-aligns the separate images before combining them, so the results are about as sharp as single-shot images would be. Why not on a camera selling for several times the price?) The EV-adjust and Mode dials both take enough force to move that it's very unlikely they'll ever get changed inadvertently, but they stop short of being so stiff as to be awkward. Last year you shared a video . While we are not able to objectively test this, the theory behind the larger-than-normal separation of the left and right microphones is to provide a better stereo effect. Resolving to find out, we did a series of AF tests in video mode, both with and without subject tracking enabled. As we often say, Nikon's more conservative approach to noise suppression leaves behind slightly more noise, but at the same time preserves more subtle image detail. A simple Mode dial and Exposure compensation dial are placed in traditional locations, and the power switch rings the shutter button. While the RX1 offers more configurability than most cameras, that by itself doesn't explain why I took such advantage of it, let alone so quickly. Here's an example: My first real outing with the camera was in San Francisco, where the tall buildings resulted in a lot of tall/narrow subjects, but where street-level shooting subjects better fit the camera's native 3:2 aspect ratio. While SLRs do give you the option of changing lenses, let's look at the equation simply in terms of price and image quality. Overview by Roger Slavens and Dave Etchells Posted: 06/27/2013. For most cameras, data on sensor performance has been reported by DXO Mark. (The conditions where it failed completely were a little different than those seen below, in that surrounding trees cast shadows on the subject as he moved through the scene. There are all the controls and options you could hope for, and in my experience, they all worked very well. At an even more basic level, the label says "this is what this button does", so it may not even occur to you to make it do something else. As noted in the feature list earlier, manual focus is also available in movie mode, but there's no magnified focus-assist view available to help you focus. (Not a significant criticism; both cameras do remarkably well at ISO 3,200). Yet when you step back and realize the RX1 has the potential to go head-to-head with cameras such as the Canon 5D Mark III, Nikon D600 and Leica M9 -- each with a high-quality 35mm prime lens attached --that price makes a little more sense. Capable of wall prints up to 30 x 40. Imaging Resource © 1998 - 2021. NOTE: These images are best quality JPEGs straight out of the camera, at default settings including noise reduction. The video AF tracking results were extremely disappointing; the camera had great difficulty tracking a subject moving at any speed. A friendly place to enjoy the company of other RX shooters, and those with an interest in the RX series of cameras. The Verge‘s RX1 verdict — shooting like a pro with a pocket-sized camera:. ISO 800 yields a sharp 20 x 30, with crisp detail and again only minor softening in the red channel. The DSC-RX1 was released in late 2012. As noted, the RX1 isn't the only camera these days that's prone to moiré issues: They're present in the Nikon D800 (both the normal and "e" version; the low-pass filter in the standard D800 is fairly weak, a big part of why its images are so crisp), the Nikon J1 and V1, to a lesser extent in the Olympus E-P3, of course in the Pentax K-5 II s (the version with no low-pass filter), in the very sharp Panasonic FZ200, to a lesser extent in the Samsung NX1000 and Sony's own NEX-7, and doubtless many others we haven't taken time to tally here. With its pro-level image quality, comfortable dimensions, and timeless design the RX1 series presents a compact camera with infinite possibilities. We'd been expecting a super-pro digital SLR above the A99 (a camera we'd already seen, which was announced simultaneously), but we didn't expect a camera that would make all the early Sony RX100 buyers utter a few expletives of their own. Impossible to say, but if it was a straightforward fix, it would have been applied before the camera started shipping. (More on that last one in a minute; one of my very few gripes about the camera.). The cheapest full-frame SLR you can buy these days is either the Canon 6D or Nikon D600, depending on who's bundling what or sneaking under the MAP price on any given day. It's ultimately a matter of personal preference, but for my part, I found the RX1's controls just about right. Road Trip – A video from 8000 stills and the Sony RX1 by Ofer Rozenman I’m a frequent reader of your blog and really like the content you post. Going to 3 megapixels, you can crop away 7/8 of the frame, and 99% of your friends still won't be likely to notice. Summary: Does it say anything revealing about a camera's printed image quality that when we printed an 8 x 10 at ISO 6,400, looked at it with amazement, and naturally assumed we must have somehow made a mistake and were in reality looking at ISO 400 instead? Imaging Resource © 1998 - 2021. Sony priced it at $2,800 because it's the only point-and-shoot with a 24 x 36mm sensor (Barnack or "Full-Frame" size).Its lens does not zoom, the camera has no image stabilization (except for video, done electronically just … The higher frame rate helps reduce the rolling shutter effect. Personally, I think that people who feel that way aren't framing their evaluation properly. Checking photos of the prototype body (including Sony's own initial PR shots), we saw that there was indeed an AF-C setting on the focus mode dial that apparently was deleted from production models. Neither detracted significantly from the sheer pleasure of using the camera. A Movie record button appears far right of the thumb grip, an odd placement, but one at least unlikely to be activated by accident. The images that the This means exposing shots a fair bit darker than you would if you were just looking for pretty pictures to use straight from the camera. The Sony RX1's lens is very sharp wide open, so shooting at large apertures likely won't be as successful at reducing aliasing artifacts as with most SLR lenses. It is an expert-level compact with a 24 megapixel full size sensor (notably used by the Sony α99).The sensitivity ranges from 100 to 25600 ISO. The background behind the olive oil bottle, and indeed the area where two meet is also muddled by noise suppression. The Sony RX1-R has exactly the same body as the original Sony RX1, so the build quality and basic operation of the camera is exactly the same. Image Quality improvements don’t just come down to photo quality but video quality as well. ... With the RX1, Sony fused these two polar opposites in a collision of photo-epic proportions. (The D800's sensor is made by Sony's sensor division.) It was a bright, sunny day, so dynamic range was an issue with a lot of subjects. Due to the fixed lens on the RX1, it’s of course impossible to remove and test with the other lenses on the same sensor, eliminating differences in sensor performance and RAW converter interpretation that will inevitably color these results. The table below shows the specs for various video recording options: As stated above, the RX1 offers the choice of three video recording formats, although the choice of format is made for you, depending on whether you're shooting at Full HD or a lower resolution. Because our SLRgear lens testing involves cross-calibration between bodies by shooting with a "calibration lens", we can't directly calibrate results for the RX1's lens against those tested on other cameras. Chad has been writing for me on and off for years now and I always enjoy his thoughts and views on these Sony products. RX1. The RX1 makes quick, point-and-shoot video recording from any exposure mode very simple, by having a record button next to the thumb rest. Sony RX1R Mark II : la promesse. Overview by Roger Slavens and Dave Etchells Posted: 06/27/2013. And when I say "the best the field has to offer," that's without limitation. It's no surprise that the 36-megapixel Nikon D800 out-resolves the RX1 at low ISO, but the D800's smaller pixels exact a price at higher ISOs, where the balance tips in favor of the RX1 again. Holy Supercameras. The controls of the Sony RX1 continue the sense of quality, with just the right balance between stiffness and ease of use. The Sony RX1 features a full frame sensor and has a format factor (sometimes also referred to as "crop factor") of 1.0. The ability to assign specific functions to various user-interface buttons is nothing new, but the Sony RX1 gives you more options (a total of 25 can be randomly assigned to buttons) and lets you configure more of the available buttons than is common. So I went ahead and assigned my own functions to them, where with another camera I might not have bothered. Excellent prints here at 11 x 14, with a usable wall print at 16 x 20. (I can hear the Leica fans screaming about the superiority of the M over the RX1, but honestly, guys, do even you think it's $7,000 better? You know; the four-way controller has the four directions labelled something like self-timer, white balance, flash and ISO. In the full resolution original you can see additional examples in the brick patterns as well. Granted, both of these lenses are a full stop faster than the RX1's, but both are also softer in the corners than the RX1 is at f/2. The videos below show examples of both conditions. 6 Months With The Sony RX1 By Simi Tometi Hello Steve, Brandon, and fellow site readers. Yet the D800 still holds on to the basic thread pattern in the red leaf swatch, as well as the threads in the pink swatch. We bring this up, of course, because we found evidence of aliasing in the RX1's images, in both still and video captures. We did encounter one really perplexing issue in some of our lab shots, namely that they showed a red/magenta to cyan color cast across the images; a very slight reddish/magenta color cast on the left faded into an equally slight cyan cast on the right. Full-time autofocus during video recording, with continuous AF tracking, although in our test this performed. 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