Hikari
Veteran
- Location
- Maine, USA
I dunno ... think I need to play with a RX1. Having the Fuji has helped focused my needs/desires for a camera different than the OM-D. I think having a truly pocketable camera, with the quality of the RX1 may make it too easy for me to be lazy. A body at rest tends to stay at rest ... all those physicists were talking about me. An RX1 would be great and fun, but the fixed lens would make it all too easy for me to live in a 35mm world. I can easily duct tape an O17 to my OM-D or an E-PL5 and have a similar experience. The problem is that back in the film days, even at 8x10 you could see a difference between 35mm and MF. Now, those differences don't become apparent until ... what ... 3'x4' ...
I'm looking for a different experience from what I've been doing for decades ... and I'm looking for a different image. Right now I'm willing to invest some time with the Fuji just to see if it can take me down a different road. Maybe the RX1 is the camera I need ... or maybe I'm taking the easy road by expecting the camera to change my style ... maybe it is I who needs to change my style.
Let me know what you think of the RX1, I am very interested in your review.
Gary
Wow, this is tough. If what you mean about sensor size/resolution is when you see two equal pixel resolutions of different formats and you can see the same details in each as an indicator that format does not matter, then yes. But two sensors with the same pixel resolution work at their Nyquist frequency would show about the same thing. But even with the wonderful sensor in the RX-1, it does not match my 22MP p25+ medium-format back. Even Ray seems to be impressed with a 35mm sensor over the m4/3 and APS sensors he has used. There is a lot that goes into the look of a format beyond resolution. And in the film days, it was not the resolution per se that distinguished the formats, it had more to do with the relative granularity--even Tri-X would look great at 8x10.
The camera does change your style, at least is has for me. But it takes some time with the camera as well. Unfortunately with digital, we have fewer camera types and formats, so we are suck in a more limited universe. The RX-1 when used seriously is a very different camera than an eye-level one. It is kind of like a handheld view camera with no movements, at least if you are working with the rear screen. It is actually a nice camera on a tripod, that three-legged monster you like so much. But part of that change of style comes with a change of subjects. Maybe you need to shoot something different. I have found the hard thing about a style change is not being able to really predict what that is. That come with just putting yourself out there a trying a few things.
Maybe what you need is a medium-format digital back and a tech camera. That is after you win the lottery--you do buy tickets?