Not a problem at all. It takes lovely pictures and I'm not paying $2800 for it. The images ARE nice, however.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked at those yesterday, and had the ISO 6400 sample open on my > desktop for a while; it looks amazing as far as noise goes. > > I can't tell if you're being ironic in your exclamations. My thoughts > on price: It's priced right about where it should be. Consider that if > you buy a Nikon D600 you pay $600 (or so) dollars less, but don't get > a nice 35mm f/2 lens with it. Furthermore, you're buying A MUCH > SMALLER CAMERA; it costs more to make a machine more compact. Lastly, > far fewer RX1's are going to be built/sold than D600's, so R&D and > production costs have to be shared across a much smaller number of > cameras. Given all this, I'm thinking Sony might not even be making > money with this camera. > > That said, I acknowledge that my arguments would hold more weight if > the damn thing had a viewfinder (for the same price). The accessory > EVF and OVF they announced are stupidly overpriced. > > As far as nobody needing one... I can imagine somebody who LOVES 35mm > might convince him/herself that they need one. I know that if it had a > 50mm lens I'd have trouble convincing myself I *don't* need one :-) > > > —M. > > \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com > > http://EnticingTheLight.com > A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment > > > > On 28 September 2012 14:07, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonyelectronics/sets/72157631631658271/with/8028155554/ >> >> You might want to pixel-peep a bit on that ISO6400 bar-room scene. >> >> It’s overpriced! Underconfigured! Nobody needs one! Nobody! argh -T >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
