Sony's 61mp Rx1r Iii Fixed-lens Compact Camera Is Finally Here After A Ten-year Wait

Sony conscionable amazed nan photography world by unveiling nan RX1R III, a fixed-lens 35mm full-frame compact camera. Coming astir 10 years aft the RX1R II, it has a 61MP Exmor R sensor on pinch Sony's latest image processing exertion that promises debased sound and precocious move range.

Apart from each nan caller tech, nan RX1R III is smaller and much streamlined than earlier and considerably lighter astatine 17 ounces than its main competition, Leica's Q3 and nan Fujifilm GFX100RF. With that, it's designed to beryllium a "carrying around" camera for thoroughfare photographers, superior amateurs and others.

That mini size is owed successful portion to nan Zeiss Sonnar T 35mm f2 lens that sits partially wrong nan body. While much compact than before, it has nan aforesaid optics arsenic nan past exemplary and offers precocious levels of sharpness and colour rendering, according to Sony. It comes pinch a macro ringing that enables users to get arsenic adjacent arsenic 20cm to subjects and feature's Sony's caller "Step Crop Shooting" usability that allows 35mm, 50mm and 70mm focal lengths by cropping into nan sensor, conscionable for illustration nan GFX100RF tin do pinch a akin button.

It has up to 15 stops of move scope acknowledgment to nan high-res sensor and image processing engine. It besides features an anti-reflection coating and nary optical low-pass select to boost image quality, though that tin origin immoderate moire and different artifacts. Shooting speeds aren't speedy astatine conscionable 5 fps, though it's evidently not designed to sprout sports.

The EVF is middling pinch 2.36 cardinal dots and 0.7x magnification, though nan rear sheet offers a decent 2 cardinal dots of resolution. However, dissimilar nan 1 connected nan erstwhile exemplary that tilted retired and up, it's fixed successful bid to prevention weight and size. It besides lacks immoderate in-body aliases optical stabilization, relying solely connected physics stablization.

With Sony's latest Bionz XR and AI processors, it promises meticulous search of "subjects, quality bodies, heads and nan position of eyes," Sony said, moreover if their faces aren't visible. It uses 693 phase-detection AF points covering astir 78 percent of nan image, conscionable for illustration Sony's A7R V.

It's not astir arsenic powerful arsenic nan A7R V for video, but tin still grip 4K 30 fps video pinch 10-bit 4:2:2 colour sampling, on pinch 1080p video astatine up to 120 fps. No log mode is available, but you do get nan log-like S-Cinetone that boosts move scope a bit. Other features see a azygous SDXC UHS II slot, a mic input (but not headphone jack), a microHDMI larboard and a USB-C input.

As you mightiness expect, nan RX1R II is not cheap. It'll spell connected pre-order soon for $5,100, pinch shipping group to commencement connected July 31st. Sony is besides offering a fistful of accessories (also expensive), including nan $300 (!) thumb grip, $250 assemblage lawsuit and $200 lens hood (!!).

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