#rx1rii

[pharoldo]

[notsogoodphotographer]

Hi i want to talk about my all time favorite camera 📸

pls ignore all my grammar mistakes, i’m not professional reviewer 😂 i just wanna talk about this camera.

This is the Sony RX1Rii, this is the third and “most recent” version of this camera. i put “most recent” in quotes because this camera is almost 10 years old. don’t like the old age fool you because this camera can keep up with the newest cameras in its niche.

This little point and shoot sports a 42mp full frame sensor. YES, F U L L F R A M E!! This tiny camera is actually smaller than all the x100 series (minus the lens on it). The camera has an incredibly sharp Zeiss Sonnar 35mm f2 glued to. This camera has 399 af points, with eye AF. The camera is incredibly fast and accurate!! the camera is pretty much a tiny packaged Sony A7Rii!

One of my favorite features of this camera is the pop-up EVF! This is a feature that was added to only this version of the camera and it’s a feature that i wish sony continued to incorporate into some of their other smaller cameras like the A7c or a6k series!

The camera does shoot video up to 1080 120fps, but does not have picture profiles such has S-log or HLG. This was a camera made strictly for photos, which is probably for the best because the battery life on this camera is terrible, any kind of prolong video shooting would absolutely burn through these batteries in minutes.

That brings me to my next point, my cons. There’s not many but i figured i’d point them out anyways for those who are interested in this camera. these aren’t make it or break it cons, these are just issues that hinder it from being the greatest camera ever released (IMO)

1) battery life, i believe it’s rated for like 220 shots. Ive definitely gotten it to last twice than that. That tiny body processing all that data on some of the tiniest batteries makes sense why it’s so bad. Luckily batteries are cheap and like i said they’re tiny, so they’re pretty easy to carry around!

2) no picture profiles in video. i know i touched on it briefly up above and this camera is mainly a photo camera AAAAAND hybrid cameras were just beginning to grow in popularity around the time this camera came out but it would’ve been amazing to have s-log in this camera for little snippets here and there. i know at the time IG and other photo sharing apps were mainly photo sharing apps, and a camera that was built strictly for photo has no business having usable picture profiles in video.

3) no crop mode in RAW. this one is weird to me because i know the A7Rii has an APS-C mode where you can shoot RAW photos with an inbody crop and there’s times that i’d love to shoot something at 50mm (35mm + sony’s 1.5x aps-c crop). there is a digital zoom option but that’s for jpg only.

4) PRICE!!!! why the fuck is this camera still being sold for $3200??!! this is a 10 year old camera with outdated tech. i bought mine used for $1900 (which is about the price of the fuji x100V at the time of purchase) and i still think that’s a little too much.

that’s really about it aside from minor complaints of not having tele/ wide converters. i’m also sure all of those cons stem from the small battery. I’d love to see all of these corrected in a Mk3 one day, but as of a couple weeks ago sony just discontinued the Rx1rii’s production. I’m being a little hopeful but maybe that means we’re getting a successor, i doubt it but a boy can dream.

I don’t really do reviews or anything but this camera has had my heart for the past 9 months so i had to show it off/ talk about it. this to me in the perfect everyday camera. it never leaves my side and comes with me to any and every trip! Im always blown away by the photos i create with this little camera and i know whenever a mk3 comes out im going to hop on the chance to buy on immediately!

[wanderingwongs]

Look up! The square cupola of Catedral La Almudena. #cathedral #europeanchurches #madrid #spain #gothicarchitecture #heavens #stars #travelphotography📷 #rx1rii (at Catedral de la Almudena) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUAJ-tgKApx/?utm_medium=tumblr

[benlowy]

Last night at the @focuscamera @sonyalpha event in BK. Good times had by all. Got my hands back on a #rx1rii I miss that camera and can’t wait for a probably-not update. #documentary #streetleaks #streetstyle #reportage #sonyalpha #bealpha https://www.instagram.com/p/B4m_KwXFbYT/?igshid=1tn9ge4hj9f4n

[africashowboy]

“I was sacked from school when I was in form 2. I won’t tell you what I did”. I met Gabby in Navrongo whilst doing a story on Inequality in Ghana for UNICEF. Gabby is a very brilliant kid but he’s never going back to school. He’s accepted his fate. His dad is dead and his mom is hustling in Kumasi, which is 100s of miles away from him. He doesn’t have the privilege of a typical Ghanaian parent who’d go beg for him or just find him another school. It is very easy to look at him and say “he’s probably a bad boy that’s why they sacked him” but don’t you know many other teenagers from privilege who committed many sackable offenses but still managed to finish school? It is not a fair system when the poor get fewer chances than the rich. Photo and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkacquah.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2018). #shotonsonyrx1rm2 #shotonsonyalpha #rx1rii #onassignment #sonyrx1rm2 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0gvnrRFe9h/?igshid=1qfzu9tcdy66h

[gijecho]

[RX1rii] Hong Kong . . . . 
#RX1r2#RX1rii#SonyRXmoments #sonyimages#sonyphotography#cityscape#architecture #urbanphotography #urban #gije_cho #조기제사진연구소 #travelgram #travel_life #stilllife #travelphotography #blue #igs_asia #igtraveling #ig_travel #eyeem #500px #ig_mood #igs_asia #building #fineart #igworldclub_cityscape #discoverhongkong #도시 #건축 #야경사진

[wasa]

If you ever get a chance to poke around @dexterscamera in #Ventura—do it. • • #rx1rii #sony #sonyrx1rii #camera #polaroid #edison #35mm #filmisnotdead (at Dexter's Camera)

[thebestinphotography]

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