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Equipment: Sony a7 iii, Sony a5100, a5100, Lumix gx7, 20D. Panasonic fz-1000 Sony 16-50 f3.5-5.6 OSS, 55-210 f4.6.3 OSS, 18-105 f4 PZ OSS, 50 f1.8 OSS. For Panasonic: Lumix 12-35 f2.8 I, 12-60 f3.5-60 OIS, Oly 45 f1.8, PL 15mm f1.7, PL 24 f1.4, Olympus 14-150, 45-150. For Canon: ef 85 f1.8 usm, ef-s 10-22 f3.5-4.5, ef 70-200 f2.8L IS, efs 18-135 STM, 50mm f1.8 STM, he Tamron 17-35 f2.8-4.0 Di. Love sports/action, portraits, candid, street, photography. Love doing weddings and happy events. |
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Have your say: Best product of 2020
- Canon EOS R533.0%
- Canon RF 70-200 F4L IS USM8.2%
- Fujifilm X-T423.4%
- Nikon Nikkor Z 50mm F1.2 S12.5%
- Sony FE 20mm F1.8G10.3%
- Sony FE 12-24mm F2.8 GM12.5%
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dosdan: Aptiva + Sony = An even tougher time for Canon sensor innovation.
Dan.
tkbslc,
It does not matter how many alliances are formed. If Canon has something really groundbreaking to come out this year, they can't touch that product till they can come out with their own. But I don't think Canon has anything that Sony or Aptiva is to be worried about. If any, it is the other way around.
The fruits of this alliance takes time to bear fruit. I don't expect to see anything this year. Maybe 1.5 year from now, we'll see something come out. It takes time to digest and do R&D to integrate that into one's own product line.
schufosi777: Pity I cannot buy it. I am an English speaker living in Japan and it comes with Japanese menus only and Sony will not allow it to be imported from anywhere. So its down to the other two who do have English menus.
It seems it is only a Sony thing. In our country, you can buy a gray Kiss camera (for Japan market vs the Rebel name in the USA and the xxD numbering elsewhere) and the menus are in english. It is user selectable.
Absolutic: also is it still going to be that you can only edit your post only once and also only during the first 10 or 15 minutes, or you finally will let people edit their posts at any point?
I thought about that same thing in the past, however, in an argument/debate, the OP or anyone can't just back out of a position if he can't continuously change his older posts to remove/edit the offending logic error or idea. By locking the post after a time, it makes sure that you can't weasel out of what you wrote before.
I wouldn't mind the spelling errors. It's the factual reference that is frozen in time and must be preserved that is more important. We can always ask the site to put a spelling checker there (auto or on demand) if spelling is just your beef. Even that, won't be perfect though, but still not the main thing why you should not be able to re-edit your post after a certain time or no of times.
The most that can be done reasonably is give you 3 chances to re-edit say, within 10-15 min which is just reasonable I think.
Sounds good! We'll just have to wait to see how it actually works before more comments and suggestions come in!
I have a question though, how will this revamped pages work out with android OS or tablets/smartphones accessing it? Do you have a separate/alternate template for that or it will work just the same?
On another subject, I bet those stats on complaints column is going to be a subject by itself! A positive or thumbs up column would also be helpful.
vladimir vanek: What the... is this?? :D I don't need any apps or whatever in a CAMERA! I only need 3 functions, M, Tv and Av... :)
Rupti,
You are going to regret those thing you said in a year to 2 years from now. Wifi is not a gimmick. Anybody who has tried to transfer files or tried to print and be bound by wires will tell you otherwise.
As for Android, I am not sure if that will be OS of choice. But all these hacking shows you that there is a need to have users activate or add features that were not there. If Android will be that OS to make it easier and standard well that is well and good.
Many cannot see the advantages of these 2 techs because there is no precedent. But the success of Android is partly to the ability to customize a smarphone or tablet. If you can do the same with the camera then we will enter a new phase of photo-video that is unheard of.
Interesting.
But somewhere in the hoopla of the smartcamera, we lost and forgot the features of the camera! What's the sensor size? ISO range? Does it have PASM? Max-min shutter speed? Does it do burst mode? Does it have auto-ISO? Is it configuratble? It does video but what framerate? Does it have stabilzation? Etc. etc.
This may not be a good start. In any case, I'll wait for version 2. Interesting as this one may be, there will be many things forgotten and not done right in the first outing. The lack of a 2nd camera or a tilt screen alone will make skyping hard to imagine!
Absolutic: I don't understand the 78 score, dpreview. I own this camera, and it is clearly, and by far, the best pocketcam on the market. You state on your site that scores are relevant only to other cameras in the same class. Since it is the best pocket digitam on a market, why is it not a above 80 GOLD Score?
Ok I guess you state in one of your comments that gold awards are subjective and for standout products. Don't agree with you guys there. I am a former owner of D800 and present owner of Canon 5D Mark III and Sony NEX-7, both gold award winners. Both 5D Mark 3 and NEX-7 are amazing cameras; but RX100 is a phenomenal and standout product, I shoot it in bright light and I shoot it in very low light at ISO3200 and get absolutely phenomenal shots that I could have never gotten with previous compacts. This camera is something special. I do agree with Richard re: 1/2000 a limiting factor. I was shooting in bright sun today and had to stay at F/2.8 because 1/2000 is too slow.
Although I agree with you, I would not lose sleep over it. I respect the DPR staff, but I couldn't care less if they give it a 10%. If you know how good something is, it does not matter if it gets a Gold, Silver, or even tin cup award.
Eventually, the market decides. And companies would rather be judged by that. Awards are just good in paper but they won't necessarily generate income.
As for the shutter speed limitations, they could still maintain that 1/2000 but maybe in the future, have a built-in NDF, that would help. That would be helpful for video too.
Andrew Elliott: I have been in and around cameras for nigh on 30 years now. My career in film & TV has resulted directly from my interest photographic pictures and the majesty of the engineering involved in the cameras & lenses and artists that capture them. I've been lucky enough to use pretty much every sort of camera going, from point-and-shoot to full-frame models from Canon, Nikon & Leica & beyond - and for differing requirements. But when all is said and done and despite its flaws, as an all-rounder, I have to say that in terms of cost, quality, weight, size, speed and the fact that the thing is there with you in the first place to take the damn picture... and most especially and simply in the quality of the output, as in what a given picture looks like when you look it on a given screen, after having simply pressed the shutter release in say, programme mode, then as far as I'm concerned, the Sony RX100 is the best camera currently made, bar none. Just my ha'penth worth.
I couldn't have said it better.
thanks.
This is good news! My question is - is this a pure EF mounting only, or does it allow me to use also ef-s lenses? It would be a great boon if it did. There are good lenses in the ef-s family like the 17-55 f2.8 and the 10-22. True native aps-c lenses. It would be a shame if we can't mount it there.