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Subject: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:26:55 -0400

Dpreview calling the RX1 "the most serious compact we've ever seen"
In Sony RX1 Hands-on Preview:
http://www.dpreview.com/previews/sony-cybershot-dsc-rx1

Mark William Rabiner




> 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/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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