Waiting for 10 years to be frightening

RX1R III is an incredible camera, able to take amazing pictures. However, for something that Sony has waited for nearly a decade, $ 5100 charges, it looks like a lost chance. First, the RX1R III is about $ 2000 more than its predecessor. In addition, it misses a handful of features that the company should have truly guaranteed to keep against other compressed cameras, including Fujifilm’s x100VI and GFX100rfAnd as well as the Leica Q3 family. I love RX1R III, but I hope it is easier to recommend.

Photo quality and automatic focus

New on RX1R III is a full frame sensor of 61 megapixels Sony was introduced for the first time besides A7R Fourth In 2019, this may be an old component, but after I felt a lot of accuracy in the camera that I could carry everywhere I felt cheating.

Unless it changes is the glass on the RX1R III. The camera still has the same fixed zeiss 35 mm F/2.0 lens that first appeared on the original RX1R in 2012. With previous models, the automatic focus was often a problem, but it turned out that the zeiss lens was not responsible. The focus algorithms were on old cameras.

like A7R VRX1R III comes with the pioneering Sony Sony photo processor and a dedicated chip for the Ai-Ei-A-AI-. Initially, I was skeptical of the automatic automatic adjustment capabilities in the RX1R III because the camera does not come with the control stick to facilitate the manually adjusting the focus point. As it turns out, it does not need one. The automatic focus on the RX1R III looks magic, thanks to tracking its theme. Covering the different seven recognition modes offered by RX1R III most things that I love photography – including people, pets and birds – and get the camera to lock a topic. All I had to do is press the new “AF-On” button. The camera can be formed to set specific topics priorities, but I found that this was not necessary to do it; I can fully focus on the camera.

All this brings me back to Zeiss Rx1R III glass. I know that some people will be disappointed by Sony’s disappointment, but I am a fan of decision. For me, the character of that lens has always been part of the series’s attractiveness, which is my favorite side in the new model.

With Sony 61MP sensor behind it, zeiss Optics can take pictures with a large amount of details without a clinical or excessive excessive as it is with many of the company’s main lenses. The best way I can describe the application is that it looks like a Layica with a beautiful and creamy peach. With the right light, the RX1R III can produce almost official images, and review the images I took with it, it is among the best I took in the ten years that I was doing.

At the same time, I think Sony deserves to be improved by JPEGS color science. The company has long provided excellent preliminary support, but the older it gets, the more the camera that can produce wonderful pictures with the minimum editing. With RX1R III, Sony delivered it. The camera provides a total of 12 JPEG profile with six custom holes. Two default default files, Film 2 and Film 3 are borrowed from Fx3And providing quiet and cute tones of a gentle contradiction with the most vibrant colors that Sony usually is famous.

As for the video, there is not much to say. RX1R III can capture 4K shots at 60 frames per second and 1080 pixels at 120 frames per second. However, as I will reach in a moment, the new Sony misses some features that will make it a specialized video camera. Since things are standing, I think it is only suitable for taking home videos that you do not plan to share with the world.

Design and dealing

The first time I looked at the RX1R III camera lens, I thought Sony had sent me a defective unit. The re -designed EVF is now built at the top left of the camera, but it seems that the company has pulled the screen from the part of the parts, as it only saves 2.36 million points of resolution. For context, the A7R V contains OLED 9.44 million points, while the older A7R IV has a screen of 5.76 million points. It extends from the new LCD screen from the back panel and Comefinder. He also feels cheap. It should include a camera worth $ 5,100 EVF from the top of the line.

The camera lens is not the only part of the RX1R III that left me confused about what Sony thinks. There is the background that I just mentioned, which is the best and worse than the screen before. On the one hand, it provides nearly twice the accuracy, thanks to the 2.36 million points plate. On the other hand, the expression is no longer, which appears to be a big step back because it makes the launch of explicit shots of hip more difficult. The blog flexion or take selfies.

Separately, Sony did not take the third. Again, this is a feature that I would like to see on this expensive camera. Fortunately, the battery life has been improved, as RX1R III supports larger NP-FW50 batteries than Sony. I can get a comfortable day of shooting from the latest model if you are well running the camera when I don’t use it.

I can overlook all the complaints I mentioned if Sony has just added the image to install the image in the body (IBIS). When I am Fujifilm x100VI reviewed last yearThis feature alone felt the transformation. More than just improve image quality, make X100VI in a camera can be launched in almost any light. It is possible that I see it that Sony wanted to keep III small and light, but again, $ 5,100 is a lot that must be paid so that it does not have an advantage that many high -end cameras offer.

conclusion

I have mentioned some of the rivals of RX1R III in success, but now I think it makes sense to think about where the new Sony camera is suitable for the market. Most people who shop will start to get a distinctive compact camera search with X100VI. If you can find one in the stock, it is much cheaper than the RX1R III, as it reaches 1800 dollars. Certainly, you give up the full frame sensor of a smaller APS-C sensor. But for most people, I think this is a fair comparison, especially when X100VI also introduces IBIS, which is a articulated screen, the optical camera lens and the excellent Fujifilm color simulation.

If you want the largest possible sensor, I claim that GFX100rf from Fujifilm, which has a 100-megapixel sensor, is more logical-even with all its mistakes and Price increase Coming at the end of the month. There is also Leica Q3 and Q3 43 to look. At $ 6,735 and $ 7,380, respectively, they are both more expensive than RX1R III, but they come with more beautiful screens, IBIS and Leica Glass.

As I said in the beginning, I hope the RX1R III recommendation is easier to recommend, but it occupies a strange space as it is not necessarily better or different enough from its competitors. It is possible that inflation and definitions in Trump’s hands are likely to make Sony’s hands, but the company could have made the new model more convincing by avoiding some doubtful design decisions.