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A Bit Disappointed with the G5X

Started Jan 11, 2016 | Discussions thread
Digital Nigel Forum Pro • Posts: 17,852
Re: A Bit Disappointed with the G5X
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NWT wrote:

Sony is limited because it does not spend money to design or produce its lens.

Sony reduced the zoom range in the later RX100 models, compared to the earlier ones, in order to improve image quality, particularly at the wide end. Canon went for a more ambitious zoom range, at the expense of IQ at the wide end. Both are understandable decisions, and no-one should be surprised that a wider zoom lens is more compromised. My personal preference is for Canon's wider zoom range in a compact package, because when I want high quality wide angle shots, I have other cameras that do that better anyway.

Where Canon really cut corners was in the electronics, where it skimped on the buffer size, so burst mode is very slow, particularly with RAW shots, and a number of RAM-intensive nifty features that Sony does very well are missing altogether, such as in-camera panorama, various multi-frame NR options and good HDR. Sony also managed to squeeze in an EVF without making the body any bigger.

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