You can now preorder the brand new Sony RX1RII at Amazon US (Click here). And it should be available any moment at Bhphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here) too.
Reminder: The RX1RII is assembled by a specialized team in Japan (to perfectly match lens to sensor). It’s also the world’s first FF camera with optical variable low pass filter (Read press text on SAR).
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Getting two of these. If at a ~50mm crop you still have some 18mp left, then it would be like having my former NEX 5n with a 35mm lens on it.
Maybe will compliment it with an a7rII, since the Super35mm 4K mode looks so nice.
Anyone found a comparison between A7rII S35 mode and A7s?
Of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8eaWln57cc#t=21s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lanOpBd5ZiE#t=21s
(with and without speedbooster)
Thanks!
Just curious, why two?
Back up. I was thinking of keeping one of my RX1s with the EVF for back up, but the possibility of generous cropping wins.
I can’t have a non RX1 (whether II or mark I) a back up because I rely on its leaf shutter near silence to work. Hugely beneficial when doing video at the same time. Mics can barely pic up the clicks and only when in range of the mic.
I think I’d rather have an A7S, or now the A7Rii, as my principal camera and the RX1 as a backup if sound was a concern.
Of course, your way of working might make this inconvenient and a backup is always very important, so I won’t suggest that you adopt my option.
brand new???
After the announcement of the real brand new a68 this RX1rII seems quite outdated and yesterdays tech.
I’m looking forward to the reviews and any image samples yet? My computer is waiting…..
I really hope to see a vanilla RX1 Mk II. This is very expensive and I don’t really need the 42mp. It would be nice if you could pick one up for a thousand bucks cheaper with a lower res sensor.
It’s called the RX1 Mark 1 😉
I was looking forward to this camera, but found AF to be much slower then A7rII after my test at PhotoPlus, bummer, maybe it was a low light issue
Did you check the flex capacitor? Given the price, you’d think they would have upped QC on that.
if they made the focus peaking independent from image magnification, and if the pop-up evf is more solid than it appears to be, I may actually buy one. Otherwise, I’ll wait and see what Sony does with the next iteration of A7
A friend who has an a7r said that with his summicron m, the “full frame view” a peaking made it difficult to accurately pinpoint focus, even if he made the peaking less aggressive (as in, lesser thickness which I imagine translates to more focus on the actual thing in focus and not just the area of focus) so he ends up using magnification to help.
I too wished for this to be the case with the RX1, full frame view and peaking, but after hearing my friend and his experience, this may not be too useful especially wide open. My experience with NEX 7 and 24 1.8 was that it was also sort of difficult to rely only on full frame view and peaking albeit at narrower apertures it worked really well.
I hear you. It’s a very personal choice, and it largely depends on how you like it, I guess. I tend not to shoot wide open unless it’s absolutely necessary, so using peaking wide open wouldn’t really be an issue for me most of the times. I’m sure magnification has its advantages, I’m just saying that making the 2 different focus assist modes available independently, so you can choose whether to use one of them or both, would be better.
I’m all for choice. So, yes, why not?
Sony, give us peaking without magnification, please.
I’d like to see this with a 50mm lens.
There is more than enough resolution to crop to 50mm.
This is funny. Is there a way to crop the price as I’m not going to use all the megapixels and DOF? What you suggest is turn this thing into a ±24Mp APS-C with ±50/2.8.
really disappointed with the Mk II, baffles me why they weatherseal the RX10 and not this (probably the EVF), no IBIS, and the handling is still atrocious. and honestly who thinks this variable low-pass filter is at all useful on a camera like this? clearly sony is not interested in the pro market, they are trying to get regular users to upgrade to things they dont need, photojournalists are still waiting for a (coat) pocketable FF camera, i thought sony was going to do it, i guess im “stuck” with my red dot m-p
Things they don’t need such as an EVF, much faster autofocusing and a better sensor?
If you had paid attention to the A7II introduction, you would know how much weight and size the IBIS adds/requires. That’s not exactly something you would add to a camera that is supposed to stay compact and relatively lightweight for the purpose of being pocketable…….
The variable LPF can actually be quite helpful when switching between nature photography (where you hardly need one) and things that include fabrics and other repetitive patterns (strong supression of moire).
I was really hoping it would have the sensor from the a7s instead… with IBIS.