You can now spend plenty of time analyzing many new Sony RX1 image samples that have been posted at Imaging Resource (Click here), Dpreview (Click here) and Steve Huff (Click here). There is still no original RAW file we can play with.Anyway, what do you think of it?
One more thing. Some readers sent me a link to this [shoplink 14644 ebay]Sony RX1 auction (Click here)[/shoplink]. It has to be a hoax! The camera hasn’t been released yet and the price is way too low!
The RX1 for example can be preordered at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, and in Europe at Sonystore DE–UK–FR–IT–ES–NL–SE–FI–CH, Wex UK, Wex Germany.
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Keeping in mind that these are out-of-camera JPEGs with what are likely default settings, the results look promising. Good lens performance across the frame; we’ll need RAW files to determine how much detail this sensor and lens is actually able to capture though.
It looks like you were “THE FIRST” with a sensible comment…I couldn’t agree more…Jpegs look good, which bodes well for the raw files.
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Looks pretty good to me, but maybe I’m expecting too much, I don’t see anything really special here… I’m still seriously considering this toy though. Show me more pictures!
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Some pictures from Steve are okay, but almost all pictures on dpreview are really crap (from a photographic side) and could have been made with an iPhone as well in bright sunlight. The lens itself however seems to be superb, I love the out of focus rendering of the Zeiss lens in front as well as in back of the focus plane.
ISO 25,600 shot from Steve’s FB page looks really good.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=449067341812355&set=a.154536744598751.40889.154367971282295&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
no it doesnt!!! it is intentionally at a much lower photo resolution to hide all of the noise. i do it all the time to high iso files. and also, are these unretouched jpegs? jpegs are horrible with shadow detail.
Him so easy amused, must be as viewed as on a cellphones screen only?
Again in full res. You judge for yourself.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC00244.jpg
Your screen must be disproportionately small to say this is ‘full res’. Big enough to fit my 24in monitor, yes, but not 24mp
That’s just 1,800px × 1,200px!
hey, noise handle on RX1 is really look good to me 😀 how about you?
I am not getting upset and your answer is really sensible, I finally agree with you.
Not impressed by all these image samples.
Have seen none my RX100 can’t do.
But might be a limitation of the OoC jpegs, and even compressed/resized for the web.
I’m sure the RX1 is capable of doing much better.
We’ll see more impressive photo’s soon I guess.
B.R.
No fun allowed. Geek zone.
dPreview, images from older Sony cameras – “aaa, colors pop so much, surely it has issues with red, and… everything!”
dPreview, images from RX1 – “aaa, colors are so flat, surely such shots can be made with small sensor camera!”
dPreview – the place where no Sony camera can make people happy.
Agreed. Sony needs to give these cameras to photographers (not any photographer but known professionals that will showcase the better side of the current firmware and jpeg engine)
Most likely pictures are not unmodified in which way ever.
I’ll make my own mind when my pro-seller lends me a demo modell once available…
This auction just a hoax?
Well, I’m not familiar with US laws, but in Germany I would file a report because of attempted fraud.
If the guy’s attempt is just fooling fan-boys, he’s a goof.
I’m buy from him before, is he sent me rock in a box.
rock-solid quality…
Hummm. RX1 full frame high ISO results are really worst than EX-1 APS-C high ISO results !
Judging from jpegs is not the best idea. I’m sure in RAW RX-1 will outperform XE-1 in details preserving and will just blown crappy XTrans in high iso color rendition (where the fuji camera suffers from color blindness), just like D600 does.
sure it will and it also should, it costs so much more! but i’d love to see finally properly working RAW conversion in ACR for X-Trans sensor
It’s not ACR fault but horrible xtrans placement.
you don’t know what you’re talking about Denis
@hexx
I know what I’m talking about
When you decreased red and blue number of samplings you’ll essentially get worse red and blue approximation. This means you either will get increased amount of color artifacts (silky and rpp way, partially ooc jpeg) or color smearing (partially ooc jpg and acr).
@ Denis – give it some time. RAW converters will improve, it just needs completely different algorithm. It isn’t easy but it’s not impossible. Fuji themselves said that they’re working closely with Adobe, Apple (possibly others) on improving conversion of RAW files captured with X-Trans sensor. It just needs time, development, testing and back to development. It’s just an algorithm, the same as you need an algorithm to ‘decode’ what Bayer based sensors capture.
@hexx
Once you lose information, you cannot restore it. It’s fundamental limitation and no algorithm can change it. Any kind of interpolation bring inaccuracies, and the rarer samplings are, the greater inaccuracies too.
Fuji may tell anything, but their jpegs don’t look promising: still loads of color bleeding and smearing. I wonder, why people can’t get the simple thing: fuji shifted balance to the details at higher ISOs and sacrificed low ISO.
steve just posted few more samples – all of them high iso ones and with NR off – http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/10/09/night-time-street-shooting-with-the-sony-rx1-amazing-high-iso-samples/
If he is honest with the parameter indications – than I’d say wow.
As said, I’ll gonna make my own mind once this amazing peace of hardware is available.
yep, those samples look good, shame something like this wasn’t released in 2011 when I was looking for fixed focal length camera. I bought X100 and am extremely happy with it and now need an interchangeable system.
no need, just blacklist certain phrases and disallow submission of such a comment – problem solved
Yeah, there’s a forum that actually censors that word, both in English and in some other languages o_O
The auction has been removed. I actually emailed the seller to ask him how he possibly had the camera, he insisted that it was released in the US already. …
Those Imaging Resources samples are absolutely bloody terrible. Judging by other samples I have seen, this is a fault of the photographer and NOT the camera. Shameful.