Travel bridge camera
Jun 1, 2018 09:09:10 #
Lance Pearson
Loc: Viriginia
I have a fly fishing trip to Colorado coming up and don't want to lug a lot of lenses through airports so looked and bought a sony dsc-rx10ii "bridge" camera with an f 2.8 24-200mm zoom condenser lens, stacked 1" more modern sensor. It takes sd cards, good video and stills and shares the same battery type as my A7 with all the canon fd lenses shot manually. It has stabilization, fairly good autofocus and can be shot on auto or any of several manual modes. Bridge because they are not the full frame top end rangefinder cameras or the top end dslr cameras but an amalgamation somewhere in the middle for both. I bought on ebay a used one for not much that had come back from factory refurbish of the rear led screen and was new in june 2017. It came yesterday and I shot on one of the auto settings a few shots yesterday with just stuffing a card in and a fresh battery. They are right...it is a terrific bridge camera for travel.
Here are a couple of those shots as examples. Would I shoot it for National Geographic, Vogue? No. Would I take it with me on my carryon in the plane and shoot the heck out of it in the fall in Colorado? You bet your sweet....the zeiss condenser lens so handles the light that it is f 2.8 all the way through the zoom range and that also limits the sensor size tho it is 20.2 mp...stacked in that there is less wiring blocking light to the actual sensors from the sensor pixel lenses with the dram right behind the sensor and the copper wiring behind that and back lit. Much faster and cleaner images tho not as good as a top end full frame camera but decent especially when considering size of the sensor. Surprising little thing. The sensor elements are the reverse order of how the lesser expensive ones are built and has benefit. The first image is just lawn grass shot while sitting on a yard bench....not the jungle! The steaks are sirloin strips about to be grilled then done....
Here are a couple of those shots as examples. Would I shoot it for National Geographic, Vogue? No. Would I take it with me on my carryon in the plane and shoot the heck out of it in the fall in Colorado? You bet your sweet....the zeiss condenser lens so handles the light that it is f 2.8 all the way through the zoom range and that also limits the sensor size tho it is 20.2 mp...stacked in that there is less wiring blocking light to the actual sensors from the sensor pixel lenses with the dram right behind the sensor and the copper wiring behind that and back lit. Much faster and cleaner images tho not as good as a top end full frame camera but decent especially when considering size of the sensor. Surprising little thing. The sensor elements are the reverse order of how the lesser expensive ones are built and has benefit. The first image is just lawn grass shot while sitting on a yard bench....not the jungle! The steaks are sirloin strips about to be grilled then done....
Jun 1, 2018 09:30:19 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
I keep preaching to the choir about these camera's. I have the RX10 III 24 600. You have ND fllters and constant aperture etc. I have reach
with this zeiss lens that I never expect to have. Will you use it. Oh yeah. These cameras are gems. The visuals and video look so good.
with this zeiss lens that I never expect to have. Will you use it. Oh yeah. These cameras are gems. The visuals and video look so good.
Jun 1, 2018 09:30:21 #
I have been researching bridge cameras for so long that its become a hobby. I think you made a very good choice. Its hard to find anything to dislike about it. I never handled one. Just information gleaned from multiple reviews.
Jun 1, 2018 09:39:32 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
I have the Sony a7s II and a6300, RX100 IV and find these camera's are so advanced. i loved my Nikon's and was a shoot
the other day the photographer had the whole Cannon stills getup. With The RX10's you look at the IQ and think how could
this be this good. One flaw which they say was fixed on the V was the long AF sometimes hunting or takes time to get in focus.
And by the way i am not a video shooter when they will pay me and this camera is a great video camera. Is not that small
and hefty but I can shoot anywhere and no one notices. A great asset to shoot interesting visuals. That said very aware
of people's privacy today so choose subjects very carefully.
the other day the photographer had the whole Cannon stills getup. With The RX10's you look at the IQ and think how could
this be this good. One flaw which they say was fixed on the V was the long AF sometimes hunting or takes time to get in focus.
And by the way i am not a video shooter when they will pay me and this camera is a great video camera. Is not that small
and hefty but I can shoot anywhere and no one notices. A great asset to shoot interesting visuals. That said very aware
of people's privacy today so choose subjects very carefully.
Jun 2, 2018 06:58:23 #
Lance Pearson
Loc: Viriginia
I too have a sony a7 setup, a nikon d4 professional level setup with pro lense, a canon m3 that I have other trips carried for travel and all are 18 mp or higher and the first two full frame. Are they technically better? Yes. Are they practically better when you consider ease of use, ease of carrying for travel and wide functional use where the f 2.8 is constant through the zoom range? You bet your sweet, well you get it, they are. It is amazing with some limits but those limits have not bothered me since I'm not shooting for National geographic or Vogue magazine. Good enough at a high enough level it is a merger of some very good technologies in one package. I paid a whopping $375 for this year old camera after a camera shop got it back from the sony repair function to replace the rear led screen which had broken and the first owner had lightly used it and just traded it in broken for next to nothing and watched $1100 or $1200 walk away. to me it is already the bargain functionally and economically of my camera collection. I am well pleased even tho I know couple things it does not do as well as the 7.7 pound nikon d4....but then it does not have to. Glad those with experience feel like I do for the most part.
I suspect that if I had started with this camera I never would have bought the others at all! Sony is slowly forcing Canon and Nikon to stop harvesting their big investment in dslrs....and they probably don't like it tho canon is further ahead in rangefinders. rumor is Nikon has a full frame rangefinder coming in 2019
I suspect that if I had started with this camera I never would have bought the others at all! Sony is slowly forcing Canon and Nikon to stop harvesting their big investment in dslrs....and they probably don't like it tho canon is further ahead in rangefinders. rumor is Nikon has a full frame rangefinder coming in 2019
Jun 2, 2018 10:29:34 #
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
Yep, preaching to the choir. I bought the original RX10 when it was released back in 2013. Last year I bought the RX10 IV. I love both cameras, for both the convenience and the image quality. I still use the original for landscapes and low light shots with it's constant F2.8 throughout the entire 24-200 (35m equiv) zoom range and the IV for shots when I need up to 600mm or more with Clear Image Zoom. I also have the Panasonic ZS100 1" sensor bridge camera for when I need a small unobtrusive easy to carry (jacket or cargo pocket) camera for nights out on the town or street photography.
Jun 2, 2018 17:26:56 #
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