one of the greatest but also most underrated point and shoot cameras
back in 2012 Zony(yes ZONY) dropped possibly one of the greatest little cameras ever to be released. it’s almost unheard of to have a Full Frame point and shoot that sports a 35mm f2. That’s no ordinary 35mm f2 either, that is a Zeiss Sonnar glued to this tiny little camera.
Cons: slow autofocus, expensive, electronic connections sometime struggle to talk when turning on resulting in E:61: error code. (there are work arounds) The mk1 doesn’t have a viewfinder so you have to buy one separately.
the copy i got came with the external view finder.
after shooting with the camera i have no issues pushing the cons right under the rug because the images that you are capable of capturing with it are beautiful! i treat this camera as if it was a point and shoot film camera, so the slow Autofocus doesn’t bug me too much. its an almost perfect documentary camera.
Sony released 3 versions of this camera:
Rx1 (2012): 24mp with 14+ stops of dynamic range
Rx1r (2013): Same sensor, as the original it just doesn’t have the Anti- Aliasing filter. removing that filter adds sharpness and resolution.
Rx1rmk2 (2015) (a mouthful): adds a 42mp sensor, updated Af, and a built in view finder. pretty much a Sony A7R2 in the body of a point and shoot camera.
Sometimes, Cedar will lean up against me like this and watch TV (YouTube) with me while I'm chilling. P.S. that's what I look like, in case you're wondering lol
this picture fell out of the camera exactly like this. no tonal correction, no exposure adjustments, no colour manipulation, sharpening or denoising. the image was imported as raw into capture one pro and exported as jpeg with a page length of 2000 pixels. the camera is a sony a6000, which I bought used for 250 euros. the lens is the zeiss 35 mm / f2.8. On the a6000 this corresponds to a focal length of 50 mm. i bought this great lens used for 350 euros. the exposure was controlled by the sony camera.
Horsetail Falls has always been a difficult subject for me. It is so close to the road that a wide angle is necessary to get the whole plunge into the frame. Photographing it requires a dry lens cloth to wipe the spray off of the lens after each picture. However I took a few steps back and included the bridge in the picture, and I kind of like it.