demiro
Serious Compacts For Life
Just received a used-but-like-new RX100 today. I was concerned because my IQ and performance expectations were pretty high. That usually gets me into trouble.
Not the case so far. Nothing but dull around the house shots, but I am surely impressed by this little black bar of soap. It seems the hype about what it can deliver is mostly just honest reporting of the facts. Shoots pretty fast; colors are good; focus is spot on. Video looks very good.
Home run, right? Not so fast...
Handling/ergonomics are punching me right in the gut at the moment. This camera is small. which I of course knew, and not so easy to handle, which I had also heard something about. But damn, it's pretty bad with my semi-bear paw hands. I have a flip-bac grip on the way, but I have my doubts as to how much that will do. There's just precious little for me to grab hold of, and to top it off I have trouble finding the almost flush shutter. It looks nice and sleek, but that's a helluva price to pay for being stylish imo.
I'll give it some time. The output certainly seems to justify that. Perhaps I'll develop a proficient tweezer grip with my thumb and index finger or something.
I hate it that my next thought is about a new camera that doesn't even exist. I'd be all over an RX100 that is the size of a G1X or an X100 or an X10. I'm also guessing that would allow Sony to make the lens a bit faster as it zooms, and maybe allow for a flip up LCD, which would be killer. That camera has to be coming, right? I can't be the only one who wants it...
Not the case so far. Nothing but dull around the house shots, but I am surely impressed by this little black bar of soap. It seems the hype about what it can deliver is mostly just honest reporting of the facts. Shoots pretty fast; colors are good; focus is spot on. Video looks very good.
Home run, right? Not so fast...
Handling/ergonomics are punching me right in the gut at the moment. This camera is small. which I of course knew, and not so easy to handle, which I had also heard something about. But damn, it's pretty bad with my semi-bear paw hands. I have a flip-bac grip on the way, but I have my doubts as to how much that will do. There's just precious little for me to grab hold of, and to top it off I have trouble finding the almost flush shutter. It looks nice and sleek, but that's a helluva price to pay for being stylish imo.
I'll give it some time. The output certainly seems to justify that. Perhaps I'll develop a proficient tweezer grip with my thumb and index finger or something.
I hate it that my next thought is about a new camera that doesn't even exist. I'd be all over an RX100 that is the size of a G1X or an X100 or an X10. I'm also guessing that would allow Sony to make the lens a bit faster as it zooms, and maybe allow for a flip up LCD, which would be killer. That camera has to be coming, right? I can't be the only one who wants it...