04-08-2025
Picture this: Is it worth $5000?
Reading through the photography news of the month, I came across several reviews and recommendations for a new camera, the Sony RX1 III.
As my readers know, I am all about cameras and lenses, so sure, I thought, I'd love to learn about this new Sony.
The RX1 III is a fixed-lens, 60 megapixel, 36x24mm-sized sensor, 'rangefinder style', 'premium compact' camera. It shoots at five frames per second, and sports a 35mm f/2.0 Zeiss Sonnar lens.
I assume the image quality you can get from a camera like this is excellent, but I assume that about most of the cameras I see and use, because it's true. But the lingering question about this particular camera is the price: $5000.
Wait, Richard, don't you mean... $500?
No, read it again. Look it up. $5000.
So in my mind, I circle back to image quality, and wonder if the amazing images I make all the time with cranky, well-warn, cameras from a decade ago would be made better, and in what way, by a $5000 camera.
I try not to be stubborn, but I was originally from Missouri, so show me. If you buy this camera and make an amazing image with it, bring it to me in some valuable form, like in a book or a very large print, and let me be amazed.
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