Björn Utpott shows us how reviewers should take pics of cameras! The nice image on top introduces his last RX1 user report you can read here: http://bmupix.com/reviews/2013/1/29/rx1-user-report-with-raw-samples.
He writes: “Like every camera, it has some flaws, but none of them come close to overshadowing the incredible feat of miniaturization that the RX1 represents. If you’re happy to shoot at 35mm, then there’s no longer any need to sacrifice image quality in order to have a compact kit.”
And now the $2599 deals on the RX1 are back at [shoplink 16823 ebay]BigValue (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 16822 ebay]Cameraland (Click here)[/shoplink]. That’s 1.920 Euro and a price difference of almost 1.200 Euro compared to the best price at Amazon Germany. EU readers will be red in face right now 🙂
More RX1 bits: Image samples at Photographyblog. A perplexing Sony RX1 mystery solved and a sneak peek at ongoing camera tests (Imaging Resource). Electronic Viewfinder first time in Stock at Uniquephoto. RX1 thumb in Stock at Amazon US.
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Wake me up when the price drops to around $1500.
Who buys this thingy for EUR 3100 in Germany…???
Grab yourself a flight to NYC and buy it there and you have a nice stay in a great city at no extra cost…
Good idea! Sony should join with NYC as some sort of tourist promotion. Every buyer gets a free I Love NYC T-shirt.
I’m one of the idiots that bought this camera at 3099,- Euros. If you want the two year manufacturer’s warranty – without the expense of flying to NYC when something goes wrong and then potentially waiting around for weeks while Sony USA fixes the issue – you’re left with little choice. Furthermore, customs around here is getting more zealous as the country’s coffers are being depleted. I’ve been stopped and asked to provide invoices for my gear – luckily bought here. If you could call being forced to spend so much more “lucky.” You just can’t win.
A clever response Herr Utpott, however…the normal price of an RX1 is $2800 + (say) $100 postage delux. This translates to €2142.28 of value for the German customs authorities. Digital cameras have no duties but do need to pay VAT at 19% which leaves you with:
€2142.28
+ €407.03
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€2549.31 which is aroundn €600 or so cheaper than in the EU. Indeed, Sony does only have 1 year warranty in the US and your camera may only be serviced in the US BUT!!! If I am not mistaken, BH photo would take your return happily and exchange it swiftly for you.
Yay or nay?
Don’t tell customs? Leave with out a camera, buy it in NYC, shoot pictures and comeback with it if it’s your own? If you bring two… yes ok
I would also assume that you could buy a third-party warranty at significantly less than 600 EURO too.
Herr Utpott you make the rest of us (from EU) feel poor! But if you really want to let us far behind please purchase a Hasselblad or a Phase One camera(for this you are allowed to buy even from US). I bet that if you do that nobody will dare to comment anything! 🙂
But be careful at customs and hope you don’t need the warranty for a repair. Nevertheless, I am currently using the second body in a row that I have purchased in the US despite the fact that I live in Europe.
If NEX menu system was so great, they’d have used it on RX1. They wisely chose Alpha menu instead. Paul Genge reviews NEX-VG900E with same complaints about NEX menu. It’s just not up to the task of professional use. I fear for future full frame NEX, to be crippled with a consumer cartoon menu system.
Search youtube: “CameraDiner.com Review – Sony NEX-VG900E”.
Specifically, at 14:30, see what a train wreck of a design the new multi interface shoe is with XLR adapter. Sony designers were just a few working brain cells away from a real solution. Who signs off on these designs which make photography more difficult than need be?
Sony, please fire your design team and their boss. Hire someone with the vision of Mr. Maitani who designs within basic principles of elegant component connectivity and functionality. You’re so close Sony, but I’m starting to get the impression that your only design goal is to make life more difficult for your long time loyal customers.
It is strange to notice the RX1 photos (photos of the camera) were all taken with a LEICA DG SUMMILUX 25/F1.4 🙂
That’s no worse than Sony ads being shot with Canon cameras.
Search Google: “Canon 5D Mark II Strikes Again, Captures Sony’s Official Cyber-shot Promo Images”.
I wonder what HasSony promos will be shot with?
Indeed, if I was head of marketing cameras I would insist on Sony produced images.
Haha; I didn’t think to place the RX1 in front of a mirror for a self portrait. You’ll be happy to know that I’ve sold my “Leica.” 🙂
Wow, sony highend crap gets cheaper by the day. There were so many fanboys talking about how this cameras was gonna sell, lol, looks like Sonyminolta was wrong again. Too expensive, too limited and too pretentious. Looks like all the sony fanboys were wrong about this camera too. lol. Who woulda figure, a camera that 3k woulnt sell wel? LOL
This Sony high end crap consistently gets highest praise for build quality and outperforms every FF camera on the market in terms of pure image quality, except for one, at half the size, and cost comparable to D800 with “crap” lens. And it comes with no reports of internal oil on sensor or faulty OVF… Like the Nikons do.
Not uncommon for cameras to be reduced in price shortly after initial launch. Selling “well” is relative to the market intended for, especially for distinctive products without peer. Keep it in perspective.
praise doesnt mean something will sell. and you best take my advice and sell your sony gear before its worth as much as a maxxum.
Fӣ$ You
@bart, why are you even on this site? You clearly don’t own Sony/Minolta gear and all you’ve been doing is either telling people to sell their gear or posting offensive posts. Why are you even interested in Sony rumors? Or is trolling on this site is what gets you off?
Bart. Stop talking. Show us your clearly superior work? Where is your website link? Do you dare?
hmm I also think that price is close to “reasonable”. however it is still to big for me, I’d rather have a aps-c or even mft version with a retractable lens so I could take it anywhere, the quality would still be very good – good enough for me anyway.
i love telling all the sony fanboys to wake up….cause i know they wont, so in the end, when sony camera goes under..ill be the one laughing. reverse psychology. lol
Fӣ$ your mother too.
You’re just pissed off because you know i’m right. your mother would be proud of you, you came out from her other hole, thats why you were born with a stinky attitude towards facts.
I think you’ve just answered my question above with this post, that you love trolling… Figures.
There is nothing so fearsome as ignorance in action.
When in the company of honorable people, I make them my equal.
When in the company of fools, I learn from them.
In the VERY long term it is more likely for Canon or Nikon to be bought out by one of the electronics giants.
I’d love for Canon to be bought by Samsung. And Nikon by Intel. Or the other way around. Now wouldn’t that be hilarious. 🙂
whats more hilarius is your childish delusions. Sonys been losing money since 2008, dont direct attention away from that kid, if anyone should be bought out, its sony. haha…….ha.
Apple lost a lot of money in the mid 1990’s. So much so they needed Bill Gates to purchase Newton/E-Mate for 70 million infusion of needed cash for survival. Many suggested that Apple was doomed at the time.
What exactly is your point about losing money bart? No shortage of countless corporations that have endured a period of losing money, yet came back to rule market philosophies.
The only thing that gets silenced is people who claim the sky is falling just because they saw a raincloud.
Kid? Wow, you’re truly a troll with no life. Why don’t you go on dating forums and start telling other losers like yourself how to date. Even though you’ve never done it before. You are obviously too obsessed with internet to pass your time. I bet you’re one of those people who has 500+ Facebook friends and actually considers every one of them as friends.
From the way your comments come off – you’re somewhere between 12 and 17 and you’re angry at your parents.
Every single post you have here is an insult to someone who hasn’t done anything to you. Why don’t you grow up an grow some pubic hair….
bart, the issue that both Canon and Nikon have is that at some point sales of dSLR cameras and lenses will dry up leaving a niche full frame market for them.
Compact cameras are already under pressure from camera phones and there will be an eventual shift from APS-C SLR sized bodies to ILC mirrorless and/or fixed lens compacts with larger sensors giving almost equal IQ.
Whenever this shift occurs it is quite possible that Canon and Nikon aren’t prepared for it, or rather they make the mistake of trying to hang onto their dSLR sales rather than shifting wholesale into mirrorless. This is a common mistake that corporates of any market make.
Now this isn’t going to happen “soon”. But, don’t be so sure that Canon and Nikon are going to be around forever and don’t be so sure that they will not make mistakes and get swallowed up by a larger company.
keep dreaming . you deluional twats
Let me reiterate – grow some pubic hair…
Poor family of yours. Shame one can’t choose their family members.
I vote for banning this I.P. address permanently.
same to you, stan…or should i say hendreick or photocomcrp…delusional little lying fanboy. lol
Bart. Where is your website link?
un vi si sopporta, meglio una playstation
Let all ignore You know who from now on….
Off topic:
Can anyone please explain to me why a sensor with PDAF built in, would not accept/work with standard A-Mount lenses that existed for a while.
Hi guys its bart again, sorry about my previous messages but my mom drank a lot of rubbing alcohol when she had me so I think that explains some of my attitude problems but she is letting me live here In her basement still, it is hard finding work as a 40 year old single with no skills and an IQ of a potato. Bye time to go sniff more paint!
good one bart number 2. Show us what a troll you really are.lol
Just saw a thumb grip for this camera on ebay for 240.00. I don’t understand why. I could get a used nex-3 for that price. ” Thumb Grip TGA-1 for Sony Cyber-shot RX1″