the last word

I’ve been working on how to focus the RX-1 when doing street photography using an optical finder, and I have some progress to report. Letting the camera decide what to focus on and hoping for the best does indeed work much of the time. However, unless you chimp and zoom in, you can walk away… [Read More]

I dumped the Leica optical finder for something smaller and supposedly a closer match to the 35mm RX-1 lens focal length. Here’s what it looks like on the camera, with the thumb grip: and: The framing accuracy with the OVF is about as good as the accuracy of any RF camera — Leica M series,… [Read More]

This is a continuation of the Sony RX-1 review that started here. The Sony TGA-1 thumb grip arrived yesterday. I’d used a similar device on Leicas, so it was familiar to me. It slips into the accessory shoe. When I first installed it, I was worried, since it was even looser than the Leica optical… [Read More]

I hesitated before doing the noise tests, because I thought I knew how it would turn out. I shot my usual noise test subject with both cameras at f/8, 1/15 second, ISO 3200, manual focusing with the 12x setting: I processed the images in Lightroom 4.3 with noise reduction turned off, and default sharpening. Then… [Read More]