Canadian retailer Back-Bone Gear is offering the new Ribcage RX0 II, a modified version of the tiny and rugged Sony RX0 II camera that features a passive MFT mount for use with manual lenses, as well as a C mount (via a mounting ring) ideally intended for use with 1" and 1.1" format lenses.
The Sony RX0 II features a 1" stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor, removable IR-cut filter, support for capturing video at up to 4K resolutions, slow-motion capture at up to 1,000fps, and much more. Joining the camera's robust features is an 'extra-super-duralumin' rugged body and 180-degree tilting LCD.
The modified Ribcage version of the RX0 II enables users to attach their existing lenses using an adapter, to use the tiny camera for niche applications involving telescopes and microscopes, or to use unique lenses with the camera, such as vintage models. Back-Bone Gear notes that its modified MFT mount doesn't supply power for the lenses, hence why it must be used only with manual lenses.
The Ribcage model features CNC-machined aluminum components and includes a removable mounting plate with 1/4"-20 and 3/8"-16 mounts. The Ribcage RX0 II modified camera is available now for $1,299; it ships with a replacement IR-cut filter, charging cable, wrist strap, and more.
The sensitivity max ISO 12800 is too low by comparing to normal DSLR ISO 128,000 It does not suitable for low light videography and photography i.e. night scenery and astro sky. No time lapse photography and does it come with the real time screen magnification for focusing at least 10X etc? So I give up.
I watched the video. The outdoor skating scene was shot in Ottawa during winter carnival. The problem is the signs talk about Canada 150, which was in 2017, so what are they shooting the demo with and is it real. Sorry Backbone, I'm the 1st to jump on the bandwagon when I can, but I'm somewhat suspicious.
It isn't always easy to do, but whenever I see a product and think to myself "Wow, is that ever stupid ... who will buy that?" I remind myself that I'm probably not part of market segment the manufacturer is targeting.
Clearly, the manufacturer has positioned this as a video camera, not a stills camera. And with that in mind, it does make some sense and I'm certain there is a market for it.
Yeah I have the RX0 version of this. We use it for specialist video capture in Automotive development. We can mount a variety of lenses and simulate different production camera systems. For sure it's niche but the quality of the sensor in the RX0 and the excellently robust adaptation by BareBones set this apart from any of the other options out there. You have to keep in mind the RX0 has amazing multi camera capability with synchronisation across multiple bodies. It's actually an exceptional tool.
Aegon an M43 body is way too big to fit into the top of a car windscreen. The form factor of the RX0 is really good. The barebones adaption adds a chunk of heatsink as well so we can do continuous recording all day.
@Paul: Oh, okay. So you're not focusing or anything. Just set the settings and hit Record and just let it run? I could see that. But as a regular video camera, this setup seems ridiculous.
this is old news...its been available for a while now.
I have an rx0ii. its great. but if you mod it, it is no longer waterproof and no longer small. one of the best features of this camera is that it is weather/waterproof. I have used it in humid beach weather, underwater, and taken it skiing and hiking clipped to backpack. you mount a clumsy/clunky mft lens onto this ribcage modded version and now you have just another big camera with a 1 inch sensor. not all that great!!
shoots incredible photos in good light...almost as good as my sony a7rii. low light is terrible like a phone camera as expected.
definitely. for the price, you are better off getting a sigma fp. the sigma would be only slightly larger...and ff! there are great manual ff m lenses too if you use a small adapter. the rx0ii should be left as is and not modded. I use it as a wide angle 2nd camera when I have my ff camera with a telephoto lens mounted.
this rig rx0ii cam is $1300...not cheap for a 1 inch mft.
Despite all the effort in pushing customers to ever so bigger and heavier MILC, it looks like the original lovers of ultracompact barebone raw-capable bodies are still here.
If Sony ain't going to serve them, Sigma and others like Back-Bone will.
While I'm not quite as extreme to adopt something like aforementioned bricks, I'm still unhappy about FF a6000 not being a thing.
How does this make you feel, Sony? By all rights it should've been your success, and it should've happened years ago. But I guess you were just too busy cloning APS-C bodies.
I'm sorry, and no offense intended at all, but the fp is a POS. With ergonomics THAT atrocious, every single sale went to WIFIMP (Will It Fit In My Purse) posers. No serious photographer/videographer would use one of those as anything more than a novelty.
I definitely agree with you on a lackluster ergonomics, but I just don't think WIFIMP is not a valid cause. The best camera is the one you have with you, as the saying goes. WIFIMP means you will have large sensor camera on your body when otherwise you wouldn't. It doesn't have to be your only camera, and it doesn't have to do everything.
All it has to do to be a "better" camera for certain things is to show up.
It takes L lenses. They're big. Only the body is small. The fp with an S Pro 50mm f1.4 would be big/huge overall compared to a Z7 with FTZ and 50mm f1.4G. And way harder to hold and use! That little brick has less grip and worse ergos than a Leica M, and few cameras on Earth can make that claim. Bigger lenses will render the fp pretty much useless handheld. And if lugging a tripod, small body is irrelevant.
Yeah, sorry. I just see no point in the fp at all unless mounted to pancakes. And pancakes are small and slow, not good.
Just go M43 instead. Bodies of similar size, way better ergos, and way smaller lenses. Way less-expensive lenses at that.
Micro Four-Thirds is an odd choice with its long flange distance. There are mechanical E-mount to Micro Four Thirds adapters for instance, but not vice-a-versa.
I imagine, with the RX0's 1" sensor, that the wider angle of view provided by many µ4/3 lenses was a bigger consideration than the 1.25mm difference in flange distance between µ4/3 and E mount. E mount lenses would be pretty limiting with a 2.7 crop factor.
But it only works with non-electronic Micro Four Thirds lenses. The vast majority of those are available in the shorter flange mirrorless mounts too. Why not use a native C or D mount?
It *does* have a native C mount. The title of this article is inaccurate. It has a simple interchangeable lens mount system. You can bolt either a C-mount or a Micro Four Thirds mount plate onto it. If you look at the photos on their web site it is clearer: https://www.back-bone.ca/product/ribcage-rx0-2/
In fact, in the product photo DPReview shows it has the C-mount plate and a C-mount lens already mounted. The text on the lens even says it's a C mount lens with a 1" image circle.
Yeah...rather than a plate they should make the whole mount interchangable, no reason for a C mount to be that tall. It would end up genuinely pocketable, fitting into regular jeans pockets, but probably not as it is with the width.
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