Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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