{"id":7476,"date":"2012-12-14T08:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2012-12-14T08:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:50:37","slug":"the-case-for-the-sony-rx1-digital-vs-film-and-cases-of-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=7476","title":{"rendered":"The case for the Sony RX1, digital vs film and cases of beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This may be the golden age of digital point and shoot cameras or it may be the amber ale age I’m still undecided.\u00a0 At the top of this heap of little mighty cameras is the new Sony RX1.\u00a0 It’s reached that peak by pairing a sensor equivalent\u00a0in size to 35mm film with a fast 35mm focal length lens.\u00a0 After a wander in the photographic wilderness it seems Sony has conjured\u00a0the spirit of Minolta once again, likely before they slip back into the dark and we wonder where they went.\u00a0 The stand out feature of the camera though is its price.\u00a0 I don’t doubt that the price is closely related to the developement and production costs but $2799 buys a lot of consumables (Beer and film).\u00a0 My tongue\u00a0in cheek chart explains this as clearly as an unfiltered beer.\u00a0 I have no doubt that the camera will actually produce quality images in the hands of competent photographers but then\u00a0a good\u00a0photographer would no matter what the camera is.\u00a0 For disclosure one of my all time favourite cameras was the Sony DSC-V3\u00a0which I used for years and my primary SLR camera was a Minolta x700.<\/p>\n

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Other autofocus cameras with a full 35mm size frame and a 35mm lens that now\u00a0cost less than 1% of a RX1\u00a0\u00a0include; Pentax PC35AF, Canon AF35ML\u00a0(OK it’s 40mm but it’s also f\/1.9), Nikon L35AF, Olympus Stylus Epic.\u00a0 I’m sure there are more but I think I’ve made my point and shoot.<\/p>\n

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This may be the golden age of digital point and shoot cameras or it may be the amber ale age I’m still undecided.\u00a0 At the top of this heap of little mighty cameras is the new Sony RX1.\u00a0 It’s reached that peak by pairing a sensor equivalent\u00a0in size to 35mm film with a fast 35mm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[295,19,125,64,296,294,69],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-beer","tag-camera","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-review","tag-rx1","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7487,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}