Sony DSC RX10 iii
Jun 24, 2017 17:01:27 #
I just bought this camera to take the place of my 500mm prime on my upcoming trip to Alaska. The images are decent at 600mm and it's a lot easier to travel with than the big/heavy 500mm prime. While the quality won't match the prime, it comes close enough to be acceptable and the ease of transport seals the deal. The first photo is of an Osprey taken at the 600mm setting; the second is the cropped version. The third image is a side by side comparison of the Sony @600mm and an image I pulled from my file, taken with the 500mm. Both photos were taken from just about the same spot. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the results of the Sony.
BTW, I originally bought (and subsequently returned) the Nikon P900. After I got passed the beguiling zoooooom videos I discovered that Nikon had skimped a lot on this camera and I was quite disappointed. The quality of the images were not up to what I had expected from looking at the ads. Bird photography is most of what I do and came to realize that if I needed a 2000mm lens to photograph a bird ... the chances are I never would have known the bird was there in the first place.
BTW, I originally bought (and subsequently returned) the Nikon P900. After I got passed the beguiling zoooooom videos I discovered that Nikon had skimped a lot on this camera and I was quite disappointed. The quality of the images were not up to what I had expected from looking at the ads. Bird photography is most of what I do and came to realize that if I needed a 2000mm lens to photograph a bird ... the chances are I never would have known the bird was there in the first place.
Jun 24, 2017 18:24:41 #
You will be well served with this choice and how wonderful it will be to be less encumbered on your trip.
Jun 25, 2017 09:23:37 #
Howard5252 wrote:
I just bought this camera to take the place of my ... (show quote)
Many of us have have been waiting a L-O-N-G time for this type camera
Jun 25, 2017 11:01:52 #
Sony makes bridge cameras the way they are supposed to be made, 1" sensor, 20 mp. You'll pay a little more for them but they sure beat the pants off anything Nikon & Canon has to offer. Don't have to change lens and great photo quality from any distance.
Dec 7, 2018 07:37:45 #
Lance Pearson
Loc: Viriginia
I just bought a mark iii used and have shot it for a week now. I own a nikon d4 with pro lenses full frame for absolutely serious work and top end sports but it now sits on the kitchen desk unused. I am astonished at how good this camera is. The stacked and backlit Sony Exmoor 1" cmos sensor is very good and can shoot in bursts at 14 fps or 5 fps if each frame refocused....and the image stabilization is the best of any camera I have ever shot. I also own a sony a7 I shoot 35 year old canon full frame fd lenses on which is a full frame camera. It also sits in the camera cabinet unused now. If this thing had existed 25 years ago I never would have bought the first dslr. the analysis of 90% of the quality for 20% of the cost as a value is dead on. I don't shoot for Vogue or National Geographic and this thing is so handy and so good it is amazing....just amazing. It has effectively added about 20 yards to my hand held ability to shoot. With long arms my hold is not the greatest but this thing and on video as well is terrific. The leaves are about 15 yards away and the power shovel was about 1,000' away....hand held. The photos of my big champion level borzoi six year old male, Far Field Remoulade, Rom, was about 20 to 25 yards away....just to show you the range I actually experience with it...all hand held on gray days light this time of year. Lastly is a stump about 35 yards away in a nature preserve area where it is shallow and the wild fowl love to spend time...just lots of detail and contrast. Again, hand held. You can download to see the exif data on them. Mostly just cropped or perhaps lightened or darkened slightly in post but generally about what was shot. I am able to shoot the sensor with neutral exposure value compensation and it lets the iso float beautifully. I added a directional shotgun cardioid stereo mike on top for video so the two mics in the camera don't pick up my breathing when or if my eye is to the eye piece and an l bracket to mount easily on tripod heads as I am starting to shoot videos with it as well as stills. 50 years I've been a stills guy. You can shoot this thing in slow motion and the video from it is rather good. I have a good video of that orange shovel taking broken concrete and feeding a machine which turns it back into gravel from about 1,000' away that is just terrifically good and detailed. All around camera? Pretty darned close to it and I bought it used....not new.
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