I bet if you process those RAW files, push them several stops, and look in the shadows you'll find noise.It's got a portrait lens built in. The ability to do shots like this from a relatively small camera makes this the only real all-around compact I know of. Okay, you can't raise the shadows 4 stops without banding, but I can work around that. I can't make these kinds of shots with a smaller sensor and slowish aperture.
LOL, good point. We should return these things immediately.
Well, the rumored RX100-3 is f/2.8 at 70mm equiv., for an equiv. aperture of f/7.3 which is slightly better judging from the DPR chart than the G1X II at 70mm. If you think you really need 100mm equiv. focal length for portraits you could crop from 70mm to 100mm equiv. and still have 10 MPixel left, a little bit less than the G1X II but plenty for most users. I don't think there is a huge difference, but there is a big difference in size/weight and cost (taking EVF into account) and no banding problems with high-DR scenes.
Yes. Absolutely agree, and I commented on the first G1X because they just missed the boat with the aperture of that lens ... and I could never understand why.
70mm equiv on a 1" sensor would be a 26mm f2.8. That's a 9.2mm aperture.
That second shot is at 45mm equivalent.
If the rumors are true, then that one will be closer, at the tele end only, to the Canon for subject isolation. 120mm/2.7x crop = 44mm f3.0 at the tele end which is a 14.8mm aperture.
Since we are talking portraits, LCD is great for that usage, actually. I hate it for late afternoon landscapes where the LCD is washed out, though.
That, of course, is assuming you consider the G1 X mkII "compact". If you have huge pockets and do consider it compact, then congrats for finding a camera that you consider an "all-arounder". I value snappy performance, high-quality video state-of-the-art sensor parameters, as well as pocketability, so I'll wait for the Sony RX100MkIII.
"Compact" does not necessarily mean "fits in my pocket," at least not in my book. This is a compact camera, not a pocket camera. It is smaller than anything else with a comparable sensor and lens, which would mean any fixed-lens compact (if anyone else had a camera with a sensor this size and a lens this fast and capable) and likely any m4/3 with similar spec lens.
The second shot looks like Canons Official test shot or is that your shot? Either way I think the Canon Lens is nice, but I have held off and I am glad I did. My XZ-1 can make shots like these easy.It's got a portrait lens built in. The ability to do shots like this from a relatively small camera makes this the only real all-around compact I know of. Okay, you can't raise the shadows 4 stops without banding, but I can work around that. I can't make these kinds of shots with a smaller sensor and slowish aperture.
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It's got a portrait lens built in. The ability to do shots like this from a relatively small camera makes this the only real all-around compact I know of. Okay, you can't raise the shadows 4 stops without banding, but I can work around that. I can't make these kinds of shots with a smaller sensor and slowish aperture.
Neither are my shots. One is a dpreview sample and the other a Canon sample. I am sorry if it was implied that they were mine, that was not my intent.The second shot looks like Canons Official test shot or is that your shot? Either way I think the Canon Lens is nice, but I have held off and I am glad I did.It's got a portrait lens built in. The ability to do shots like this from a relatively small camera makes this the only real all-around compact I know of. Okay, you can't raise the shadows 4 stops without banding, but I can work around that. I can't make these kinds of shots with a smaller sensor and slowish aperture.
Easy to say. Let's see them. I certainly have not seen anything like that from a 1/1.7" sensor before.
