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Model: Abdull-Aziz
Location: Dickson's House, Kuwait
Technical Information:
Camera - Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Exposure - 1/1000sec at f/1.2
ISO - 100
Lens - Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
Focal Length - 85mm
Fliter - No
Teleconverter - No
Extension Tube - No
Flash - No
Tripod - No
Capture Time - 11:47am
Sony RX1 User Report.
I hesitate to write about gear. Tools are tools and the bitter truth is that a great craftsman rises above his tools to create a masterpiece whereas most of us try to improve our abominations by buying better or faster hammers to hit the same nails at the same awkward angles.
The internet is fairly flooded with reviews of this tiny marvel, and it isn’t my intention to compete with those articles. If you’re looking for a full-scale review of every feature or a down-to-Earth accounting of the RX1’s strengths and weaknesses, I recommend starting here.
Instead, I’d like to provide you with a flavor of how I’ve used the camera over the last six months. In short, this is a user report. To save yourself a few thousand words: I love the thing. As we go through this article, you’ll see this is a purpose built camera. The RX1 is not for everyone, but we will get to that and on the way, I’ll share a handful of images that I made with the camera.
It should be obvious to anyone reading this that I write this independently and have absolutely no relationship with Sony (other than having exchanged a large pile of cash for this camera at a retail outlet).
Before we get to anything else, I want to clear the air about two things: Price and Features
The Price
First things first: the price. The $2800+ cost of this camera is the elephant in the room and, given I purchased the thing, you may consider me a poor critic. That in mind, I want to offer you three thoughts:
Consumer goods cost what they cost, in the absence of a competitor (the Fuji X100s being the only one worth mention) there is no comparison and you simply have to decide for yourself if you are willing to pay or not.
Normalize the price per sensor area for all 35mm f/2 lens and camera alternatives and you’ll find the RX1 is an amazing value.
You are paying for the ability to take photographs, plain and simple. Ask yourself, “what are these photographs worth to me?”
In my case, #3 is very important. I have used the RX1 to take hundreds of photographs of my family that are immensely important to me. Moreover, I have made photographs (many appearing on this page) that are moving or beautiful and only happened because I had the RX1 in my bag or my pocket. Yes, of course I could have made these or very similar photographs with another camera, but that is immaterial.
35mm by 24mm by 35mm f/2
The killer feature of this camera is simple: it is a wafer of silicon 35mm by 24mm paired to a brilliantly, ridiculously, undeniably sharp, contrasty and bokehlicious 35mm f/2 Carl Zeiss lens. Image quality is king here and all other things take a back seat. This means the following: image quality is as good or better than your DSLR, but battery life, focus speed, and responsiveness are likely not as good as your DSLR. I say likely because, if you have an entry-level DSLR, the RX1 is comparable on these dimensions. If you want to change lenses, if you want an integrated viewfinder, if you want blindingly fast phase-detect autofocus then shoot with a DSLR. If you want the absolute best image quality in the smallest size possible, you’ve got it in the RX1.
While we are on the subject of interchangeable lenses and viewfinders...
I have an interchangeable lens DSLR and I love the thing. It’s basically a medium format camera in a 35mm camera body. It’s a powerhouse and it is the first camera I reach for when the goal is photography. For a long time, however, I’ve found myself in situations where photography was not the first goal, but where I nevertheless wanted to have a camera. I’m around the table with friends or at the park with my son and the DSLR is too big, too bulky, too intimidating. It comes between you and life. In this realm, mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras seem to be king, but they have a major flaw: they are, for all intents and purposes, just little DSLRs.
As I mentioned above, I have an interchangeable lens system, why would I want another, smaller one? Clearly, I am not alone in feeling this way, as the market has produced a number of what I would call “professional point and shoots.” Here we are talking about the Fuji X100/X100s, Sigma DPm-series and the RX100 and RX1.
Design is about making choices
When the Fuji X100 came out, I was intrigued. Here was a cheap(er), baby Leica M. Quiet, small, unobtrusive. Had I waited to buy until the X100s had come out, perhaps this would be a different report. Perhaps, but probably not. I remember thinking to myself as I was looking at the X100, “I wish there was a digital Rollei 35, something with a fixed 28mm or 35mm lens that would fit in a coat pocket or a small bag.” Now of course, there is.
So, for those of you who said, “I would buy the RX1 if it had interchangeable lenses or an integrated viewfinder or faster autofocus,” I say the following: This is a purpose built camera. You would not want it as an interchangeable system, it can’t compete with DSLR speed. A viewfinder would make the thing bigger and ruin the magic ratio of body to sensor size—further, there is a 3-inch LCD viewfinder on the back! Autofocus is super fast, you just don’t realize it because the bar has been raised impossibly high by ultra-sonic magnet focusing rings on professional DSLR lenses. There’s a fantastic balance at work here between image quality and size—great tools are about the total experience, not about one or the other specification.
In short, design is about making choices. I think Sony has made some good ones with the RX1.
In use
So I’ve just written 1,000 words of a user report without, you know, reporting on use. In many ways the images on the page are my user report. These photographs, more than my words, should give you a flavor of what the RX1 is about. But, for the sake of variety, I intend to tell you a bit about the how and the why of shooting with the RX1.
Snapshots
As a beginning enthusiast, I often sneered at the idea of a snapshot. As I’ve matured, I’ve come to appreciate what a pocket camera and a snapshot can offer. The RX1 is the ultimate photographer’s snapshot camera.
I’ll pause here to properly define snapshot as a photograph taken quickly with a handheld camera.
To quote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So it is with photography. Beautiful photographs happen at the decisive moment—and to paraphrase Henri Cartier-Bresson further—the world is newly made and falling to pieces every instant. I think it is no coincidence that each revolution in the steady march of photography from the tortuously slow chemistry of tin-type and daguerreotype through 120 and 35mm formats to the hyper-sensitive CMOS of today has engendered new categories and concepts of photography.
Photography is a reflexive, reactionary activity. I see beautiful light or the unusual in an every day event and my reaction is a desire to make a photograph. It’s a bit like breathing and has been since I was a kid.
Rather than sneer at snapshots, nowadays I seek them out; and when I seek them out, I do so with the Sony RX1 in my hand.
How I shoot with the RX1
Despite much bluster from commenters on other reviews as to the price point and the purpose-built nature of this camera (see above), the RX1 is incredibly flexible. Have a peek at some of the linked reviews and you’ll see handheld portraits, long exposures, images taken with off-camera flash, etc.
Yet, I mentioned earlier that I reach for the D800 when photography is the primary goal and so the RX1 has become for me a handheld camera—something I use almost exclusively at f/2 (people, objects, shallow DoF) or f/8 (landscapes in abundant light, abstracts). The Auto-ISO setting allows the camera to choose in the range from ISO 50 and 6400 to reach a proper exposure at a given aperture with a 1/80 s shutter speed. I have found this shutter speed ensures a sharp image every time (although photographers with more jittery grips may wish there was the ability to select a different default shutter speed). This strategy works because the RX1 has a delightfully clicky exposure compensation dial just under your right thumb—allowing for fine adjustment to the camera’s metering decision.
So then, if you find me out with the RX1, you’re likely to see me on aperture priority, f/2 and auto ISO. Indeed, many of the photographs on this page were taken in that mode (including lots of the landscape shots!).
Working within constraints.
The RX1 is a wonderful camera to have when you have to work within constraints. When I say this, I mean it is great for photography within two different classes of constraints: 1) physical constraints of time and space and 2) intellectual/artistic constraints.
To speak to the first, as I said earlier, many of the photographs on this page were made possible by having a camera with me at a time that I otherwise would not have been lugging around a camera. For example, some of the images from the Grand Canyon you see were made in a pinch on my way to a Christmas dinner with my family. I didn’t have the larger camera with me and I just had a minute to make the image. Truth be told, these images could have been made with my cell phone, but that I could wring such great image quality out of something not much larger than my cell phone is just gravy. Be it jacket pocket, small bag, bike bag, saddle bag, even fannie pack—you have space for this camera anywhere you go.
Earlier I alluded to the obtrusiveness of a large camera. If you want to travel lightly and make photographs without announcing your presence, it’s easier to use a smaller camera. Here the RX1 excels. Moreover, the camera’s leaf shutter is virtually silent, so you can snap away without announcing your intention. In every sense, this camera is meant to work within physical constraints.
I cut my photographic teeth on film and I will always have an affection for it. There is a sense that one is playing within the rules when he uses film. That same feeling is here in the RX1. I never thought I’d say this about a camera, but I often like the JPEG images this thing produces more than I like what I can push with a RAW. Don’t get me wrong, for a landscape or a cityscape, the RAW processed carefully is FAR, FAR better than a JPEG.
But when I am taking snapshots or photos of friends and family, I find the JPEGs the camera produces (I’m shooting in RAW + JPEG) so beautiful. The camera’s computer corrects for the lens distortion and provides the perfect balance of contrast and saturation. The JPEG engine can be further tweaked to increase the amount of contrast, saturation or dynamic range optimization (shadow boost) used in writing those files. Add in the ability to rapidly compensate exposure or activate various creative modes and you’ve got this feeling you’re shooting film again. Instant, ultra-sensitive and customizable film.
Pro Tip: Focusing
Almost all cameras come shipped with what I consider to be the worst of the worst focus configurations. Even the Nikon D800 came to my hands set to focus when the shutter button was halfway depressed. This mode will ruin almost any photograph. Why? Because it requires you to perform legerdemain to place the autofocus point, depress the shutter halfway, recompose and press the shutter fully. In addition to the chance of accidentally refocusing after composing or missing the shot—this method absolutely ensures that one must focus before every single photograph. Absolutely impossible for action or portraiture.
Sensibly, most professional or prosumer cameras come with an AF-ON button near where the shooter’s right thumb rests. This separates the task of focusing and exposing, allowing the photographer to quickly focus and to capture the image even if focus is slightly off at the focus point. For portraits, kids, action, etc the camera has to have a hair-trigger. It has to be responsive. Manufacturer’s: stop shipping your cameras with this ham-fisted autofocus arrangement.
Now, the RX1 does not have an AF-ON button, but it does have an AEL button whose function can be changed to “MF/AF Control Hold” in the menu. Further, other buttons on the rear of the camera can also be programmed to toggle between AF and MF modes. What this all means is that you can work around the RX1’s buttons to make it’s focus work like a DSLR’s. (For those of you who are RX1 shooters, set the front switch to MF, the right control wheel button to MF/AF Toggle and the AEL button to MF/AF Control Hold and voila!) The end result is that, when powered on the camera is in manual focus mode, but the autofocus can be activated by pressing AEL, no matter what, however, the shutter is tripped by the shutter release. Want to switch to AF mode? Just push a button and you’re back to the standard modality.
Carrying.
I keep mine in a small, neoprene pouch with a semi-hard LCD cover and a circular polarizing filter on the front—perfect for buttoning up and throwing into a bag on my way out of the house. I have a soft release screwed into the threaded shutter release and a custom, red twill strap to replace the horrible plastic strap Sony provided. I plan to gaffer tape the top and the orange ring around the lens. Who knows, I may find an old Voigtlander optical viewfinder in future as well.
def not organic, prob full of hormones and all sorts of chemicals, but i rationalize it by saying 'but there's no sugar'!
i'm embarrassed to say how much of this i eat in a week. it's prob destroying my liver and keeping me from obtaining the six-pack i so long for!
My Villain that I purchased as part of the 50 vs 50. I printed the picture in 8 x 12 format. I could not get the full picture, some border were available that fit the art to hang on the wall.
Name: Sweet Cheeks
Standing: Villain
Power: Controls toy teddy bears
Weakness: Static electricity
Part of the 50 vs 50 by Len Peralta.
I really struggled with this theme. There are so many different definitions and interpretations of the word weakness and I couldn't help but think about the word's negative sides, and that can be hard to express and very personal. I don't get personal very often, and it's hard to open up and make it about myself. I especially don't take self portraits. But it's all I could think about.
I am not always the strong person I try to appear on the outside. Sometimes I feel a weight on my shoulders. I do all the things I'm supposed to do, but at the end of the day I feel tired and weak. I feel aching in my neck and back that never really go away.
We all have weaknesses, we all feel weak sometimes. But maybe being able to push through and keep going, look at the positive side of things and be grateful for the life we're living really makes us strong.
Now you know my weakness ...
Just be careful,
and dont take advantage with that.
Well this was fun and Jummy ... Lately i've been buying little packages of these after school all the time ,,,
Well today i went to the supermarket to get something bigger !
Probably you look like a stranger when everyone is looking at you weirdly when the see that in you basket you have 30 boxes of flips..
I didnt finish them all .. just 10 boxes of flips and 3 gallons of milk :)
P.S . There's Still 20 !!!
You want some?
"...somebody wants you, somebody needs you
somebody dreams about you every single night
somebody can't breathe, without you it's lonely
somebody hopes that one day you will see
That somebody's me.." Somebody's Me ~ Enrique Iglesias
Okay today was a hard day...I have earned the right to cry...Hopefully this feeling will pass soon
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Title: An essay on the prevention and cure of vocal, pulmonary, dyspeptic, nervous, spinal, female, uterine and childbed weakness : and also, of hernias, piles, and prolapsus-ani, etc., etc. : by mechanical supports, consisting of braces, props, girdles, springs, galvanic attachments, and bandages : adapted to the above maladies respectively, with the opinions of distinguished medical men on the subject
Creator: Banning, E. P. (Edmund Prior), b. 1810
Publisher: [New York : E.P. Banning]
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Date: 1853
Language: eng
Description: Date from p. 30
NLM copy, in yellow printed wrapper
Condition reviewed
digitized
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Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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I actually have this unexplainable weakness for all things Kirby. There's just something so pure and innocent about his design, and truthfully, unless you screw it up royally, it's pretty hard to get a bad Character Good of the guy.
A few years back, the Nendoroid line introduced Kirby into it's lineup. There's been several releases in the line, including at least 3 different Kirby, a special Kirby with his Robobattle suit, a Waddle Dee, a Metaknight, and a King Dedede.
I've got maybe half of these, with the Robobattle set being the highlight.
So for the 30th Anniversary of the franchise, there was a special Nendoroid release of the base Kirtby with a special base, and different faces/accessories. Technically the Star Wand has made an appearance in the first set, but this one is coated with glitter, so there!
Like pretty much all other Nendoroids, Kirby requires his base to stand and pose. What makes this line of Nendoroids unique is that the body is basically one giant metal shell, and the limbs are magnets. So basically you can pose the arms and feet anywhere you want on the body. Like with the Windwaker Link, it was like the Nendoroid line was created just so a product like this could exist.. everything just works out so well.
Of the new expressions, it's hard to pick an absolute favourite, though it is nice admittedly nice to finally get a classic Kirby face into the mix. But in terms of sheer comedic value, you gotta give it to the the surprised face. It's really odd that this Kirby dfidn't come with an inhaling face, but I guess if they did that they wouldn't have included the dizzy face, or they'd have had to increase the price. Understandable, but unfortunate you'd have to own the first release to get that face when this is a special anniversary set.
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of all these photos i'm not sure why i like this one the best of all. it was a beautiful day here, upwards of 80 degrees.
i think it's because i feel so weak and there's something of that here. i'm blending into the trees, the parts of me i see as so defining fade away.
fortunately, in our times of weakness, we have a high priest who can understand our needs.
a reflection on temptation in the wilderness: youwillseesoon.tumblr.com/post/3940729026/the-spirit-stays
song of the day:
"Dokkoise House"
Anathallo
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1. max at the beach over the summer!, 2. Lisbeth, 3. Taking a rest, 4. Simoleon and the National Gallery
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
None of these pics are mine and I will of course remove them if requested.
I am weak! I have a Huna on the way. I just couldn't resist adding her to my motley blonde army.
having a cat-nap. my sudden attacks of sleepiness are caused by a combination of the weakness caused by the "glitch" and the sedative effects of Olanzapine. it's like narcolepsy - one minute i'm awake, the next i'm asleep, but usually only for a few minutes. i'm in better shape here than i was at flic.kr/p/b5P2KF or flic.kr/p/bc5ivF
Samson had only one weakness. That was Delilah. She was a Philistine, while he was an Israelite. Israelites were forbidden to marry foreigners, but Samson loved Delilah. He didn't think she would do anything to him, since she loved him. But Delilah had one weakness also. The love of money.
This is one of my earlier dioramas, and not one of my best. However, it isn't one of my worst either.
I'm going to slow down with the uploading a little bit, as I have two contest entries I need to finish this week. One I've been working on for over 3 weeks, and I think it's one of my best. I'm looking forward to finishing it though. : P
-Steel Plate
porra, vini, ninguém te disse que piratas/militares NÃO tomam leite condensado?
he is always dressed as a pirate or a militar guy at school. then we gather together and he drinks CONDENSED MILK! come ooon!
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Seaton Rangers probe for a weakness in the Hensingham defence during a midweek evening fixture in amateur rugby league's Cumbria League. Whitehaven visitors Hensingham needed two tries in the last seven minutes of normal time at Old Station Yard to secure a hard-earned 18-8 victory. It saw Hensingham maintain a 100 per cent record from 11 league games and move level on points with Distington at the top of the table.
Match statistics:
Admission: £2. Programme: four pages (w/a). Attendance: 204. Scoring sequence: 0-6 (15mins); 4-6 (25mins); 6-6 (33mins); 8-6 (54mins); 8-10 (62mins); 8-14 (73mins); 8-18 (78mins). Referee: Brad Milligan (Workington).
Most of the Justice League have one weakness that stops them dead in their tracks. I thought Batman was immune.
Turns out he does have one weakness though - and it took an evil duplicate to find it... Batman can't handle a nipple cripple.
I have a weakness for duck tongues too. Too bad these weren't deboned (not a big problem, but I love just popping the whole thing in the mouth without worrying about the little bit of bone).
Image taken on camera phone. Often times I don't carry my camera on person - those are the times I have to make do with the camera phone.
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Those who follow my threads know of my weakness for die cast scale models and toys. Over the last 20 or so years and with the aid of ebay and swapmeets I've gone through a process of buying random models that have caught my eye - in most cases its governed by what I feel would be a good price to pay or in other instances simply due to the fact I like the model. There's not a logic or pattern to which model or scale I would get, its simply a case of buying it if I like the look of it. This of course will play some considerable havoc with my bank balance but I would give myself an allowance each month to buy them.
I recall picking up this 1/24 Gama model very cheapily some 10 years ago - the subject matter didn't interest me as much as some other models, but I worked out it would be a worthwhile purchase. Gama tend to concentrate on 1/43 models, so this larger scale example is unusual. It also features 6 opening doors - the proportions and accuracy are questionable but again one of those models I'm happy to have in the collection.