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Or a new LX10, or bette lr a GM 1with rhe latest Lumix technology

Yeah - I was talking as an alternative tiny camera for the people who might be a target market for the rx1r iii. 515g (a7cr body only) is closer to 498g (body+lens of rx1r iii) than 723g (a7r v). Though they're all big enough that they won't fit in a pocket, unless you're wearing some Matty G cargo pants. (Maybe someday, some vendor will make a decent quality digital Olympus XA-1 - come on, OM System! Get with it) The ergonomics on the V look a LOT better, as you said. But sorry if I was unclear that I meant the specs on the sensor look similar between the two cameras. I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference in still photos or 4K video taken on the A7CR and A7R5. 😃

I agree that I doubt they would intentionally deal in stolen goods. I just have heard that in my country, there isn't a very good centralized database for stolen cameras - so even for stores that want to do the right thing, it's really hard to know. Given the high percentage of my gear that was purchased used, I sort of assume that some of it was sold to the store by someone who didn't acquire it through honest means, regardless of intent.

Nah, A7RV KILLS the A7CR. Unless you absolutely must have that body type, it has; better stab, MUCH better EVF and rear fully articulating LCD, twin type B CF Express with write back up (stills anyway, not sure about video) and is just a much better platform. I have one for sale if anyone wants one? EU only!! But that's not why I'm rating it well over the A7CR, - it's simply a much better camera in every regard except as above, unless you must have a rangefinderesque body.

I don’t know but it came from MPB UK with their standard 6 month used warranty and I doubt they’d deal in stolen goods. Most likely someone’s favourite YouTuber said, “actually, I know I just hopped over from Sony to LUMIX, but I’ve decided to now go to Nikon”. One of those talkers/collectors who never actually shoots, just talks and collects and maybe one day, when they have finally assembled all the right kit, will actually use it 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, I watched a few comparison videos and took notes, decided I wanted the Blazar 1.5x adapter as it was the softest, lightest and had the least horizontal flares. Then I looked up how much they all cost and bought the Sirui! I genuinely have no idea if I'll like it, but I figure it should either be useful to take the edge off my modern zooms, or to add another layer onto my vintage lenses. If I combine it with my 0.71 m42-m43 speed booster, it makes the end result a 1.14 crop factor, so basically a FF camera, which will make a lot of my lenses a bit easier to use in practice. I got the email from Sirui Australia but I guess maybe the bottlenecks might be upstream. Who knows. Reverse-engineering global supply line logistics is probably an impossible task and won't get my adapter here any faster! Thanks, my Global Head of Design was responsible for the selection. My fairy lights are excellent - the lights are bright, tiny (so are essentially point sources), and the whole thing runs off a USB so no power adapters etc to deal with. The wire is just a thin single-core wire so easily bends and is relatively fragile, so I'll have to work out where to put them up for testing. I was thinking I might just put them up in my studio and when I want to test bokeh I can just plug a portable USB charger into them, turn off all the other lights and then wave the camera around.

It is a very nice camera from my experiences with it, though I've only used it a half dozen times. I actually just texted my buddy who owns it and asked if it had overheated yet, since it's now the hottest time of year here in Vermont, and he said it hasn't and he has had it out in the sun on 90 degree days. He doesn't do super long takes though like I would as an event shooter.

It's almost certainly because they bought a boatload of them and need to get rid of them.

Salford? I've stayed there when I went to see The Stone Roses on the Etihad Stadium. The apartment was kinda close of the famous (by The Smiths) Salford Lads Club. 🙂

2.36mp EVF, in 2025, OMFG...... what is Sony's obsession with using the worst quality screens/EVFs on their cameras. Also I'm not sure who mentioned it, but at that price honestly I would much rather grab the GFX100RF!!!!!

If you want small and don't care about 8k video, you could also go with the A7CR which also has a 61mp sensor - maybe the same one? I don't follow Sony too closely, but the specs look awfully similar.

As a Leica M user (28mm f/2 crew), I get the appeal of premium fixed-lens compacts like the Q or X100.. great balance of size, IQ, and shooting feel. But after watching this RX1R mk3 announcement I can't help but feel underwhelmed. It uses the 61MP sensor from the A7R V, which is solid but no longer new, and you can pick up an A7R V for almost half the price. Pair that with the same Zeiss 35mm f/2 and Sony’s typical UI, and it starts to feel like a repackaged spec sheet rather than something truly fresh or innovative. Meanwhile, Fuji recently dropped the GFX100RF in the same price range with a 100MP medium-format sensor, a dedicated aspect ratio lever, teleconverter toggle, retro dials, built-in ND, and beloved film simulations. It’s a camera made for photographers who want both insane IQ and tactile shooting joy. If it weren't for the f4 lens it would be my dream camera. Compared to that, the RX1R III feels safe and soulless. Leica Q shooters get simplicity and killer glass; Fuji GFX shooters get medium format, dials galore and genuine character. At $5K+, you want more than specs, you want experience. FWIW I actually really dig what Sony did with the FX2 by adding the tiltable EVF, that alone excites me. Not this.

Love the RX1R III. Hate the price. Then again, people will pay this much and more for a Q3, and they are defining the market at the moment. Rich idiots

I don't know what kind of databases exist over there for serial numbers of stolen cameras, but if they're as poorly-implemented as they are here in the states, I also wouldn't rule that out. Might be less that someone ate the depreciation on their shiny new camera and could be more that someone left a bag with their shiny new camera unattended for 30 seconds on an Italian train. If so, hope they had insurance!

As FX30 user in a daily basis, I must add there's something wrong with this release, no doubts on this one! : X

They're nuts!

A 2.36mp EVF and a fixed LCD in a $5100 camera. Oh boy.

Well that is interesting… My ‘new’ S1Rii came with firmware v1.2 and Arri log C3 installed so some mug just bought and sold this camera pronto to MPB and I snaffled it for £2700. Unless I am the mug and they sold it to MPB because of some fault…but then surely they would have sent it back for a full refund to wherever they bought it on the first place? Someone probably lost over £750 in depreciation + Arri license… Not that I can use it because my other 3 Lumix cameras will never get option. Instead, looking forward to giving @Andrew Reid option a whirl, but it’s finding the time, - heavily bogged down with work at the moment…

I'd say that if I had $5,100 burning a hole in my pocket for a compact camera (and I don't), I'd be a lot more likely to buy a GFX 100 RF for $300 less than that and then take myself and a friend to a nice restaurant and share a meal and some wine with the rest. (The 100RF really needs to start aging and showing up in big numbers on the used market already, would love to buy one at a big discount from one of the buttholes who bought one for retail and is now trying to sell for $7k)

It's arrived. First impressions = impressed. Feels like a very slightly chunkier S5ii and as it is taking over from a Sony A7RV (and a Nikon Zf), that is no bad thing. When it was first announced, I was disappointed on two counts... Count 01 = the body, - it was and is not a mini S1H. No top dial for one thing. Boo! Count 02 = it didn't have and still doesn't have the 61mp sensor from the A7RV/Leica SL3. Boo. Initially boo anyway. Count 03 = I am The Count and I like to count ha ha ha. (Bonus Count) But over time, these two 'issues' have become non-issues for me. The body first. Yes, I would rather it had the top LCD and was it's own design, but they have addressed my criticisms of the OG S5 and S5ii which were less than great rear LCD and horrible clacky shutter. It does have a sort of mini S1H feel, despite the lack of a top LCD. Summary, in reality, in the hand, I genuinely like it and everything works exactly or at least very similar to, how I am used to with the S5ii's, but just better. And the 44mp sensor over the 61mp? Came to the conclusion that 61mp was overkill anyway and was always shooting in 26mp mode so with the new Panny, I will actually be shooting in a higher resolution. Most importantly of all though, this has been an exercise in both downsizing my overall kit; this year from 5 bodies and 9 lenses to 4 bodies and 7 lenses, and then in 2026 (or poss later this Summer) from 7 down to 6 lenses. And all 4 cameras with the same batteries, menus and very close manual controls. Setting it up now for stills duty across 5 days from the end of this week and then it will also be on hybrid duty from mid Aug. Looking forward to pulling some 7.2...1k frame grabs.

I'm not misunderstanding what you say. You're saying it wrong and I am correcting you. Recording externally refers to using a separate unit such as a Ninja V, Video Assist, or XDCA-FS7. Those are systems that have their own processors to implement the codec. DJI implement all of the codecs within the camera. Their ProSSD adapter does not have ProRes RAW and ProRes 4444XQ built into it. It is just a device to convert CF Express to USB-C. As far as I now, it has no processor at all. To look at mine, you'd never know it wasn't part of the camera when I received it - it looks like an "external unit" than a USB-C SSD taped to the side of the camera would look. As to the rest, what I said was "You have to pay $1 for a license to turn it on and you need to record it to ProSSD." and you responded "besides those two big caveats." The way things work in English, if I make a statement that has two parts and then someone responds respond as you did, the default assumption is that the "two" refers to the two parts of my statement, not two parts of half of my statement that existed only in your brain. Other people can't read your mind. And no, you can't go into most local electronics stores and buy a ProSSD. You also can't go into local electronics stores and buy high-performance CF Express Type B cards (or in many cases, any CF Express B cards at all) - you'd likely have to go to a professional video store for either one - or just order from B&H, CVP, Amazon, or whatever online retailers deliver to your area. And yes, they are too expensive. I've said as much repeatedly (and with some foul language when I bought 3 of them - because as I've also said, the camera insists on using the HQ variants of things and burns through disk space almost as fast as it runs through batteries, and that's really fast). And as I also said before, many users probably just use normal ProRes and never miss having raw. While raw tends to be fairly common in the narrative space, it's almost nonexistent in much of the commercial and wedding industries, both of which, I'm told, have been pretty big adopters of the camera.

...and then mere nano-seconds later, thought, nah. I am in the process of trading my Sony A7RV and Nikon Zf for a Lumix S1Rii. Why? Brings it all in house as my 3 video units are Lumix so it makes sense to have my stills camera also Lumix for cross compatibility. I will miss both however... The A7RV has been my workhorse 'pro' camera for 1.5 years now and it just delivers and never disappoints, at least when it comes to build, handling and most importantly results. HOWEVER, it has only one 'fault' and that is as much as I like and respect it, there is something missing, - that 'if a camera had a soul' thing. The Nikon Zf on the other hand is hands down the best shooting experience stills camera I have ever owned...and I have had dozens. BUT, only with small AF primes. It is probably fantastic with MF primes, but I have never tried and I didn't care much for it with the 3 adapted Tamron E Mount primes I have tried with it. Nope, works best with the Smallrig grip and the plastic fantastic 40mm f2 SE lens. If it's so fantastic, why sell it? Well at one point, I was hoping that Sony would indeed pop out an RX1Riii, ie, my A7RV in a 'rangefinderesque' style body, but probably at a stupid price. And guess what, they have done exactly that! Would I trade my Zf for that? Not a chance. Would I trade the A7RV for one? Are you having a laugh? But trade both for an S1Rii that kind of straddles the gap between the two...if you squint a little. Yes.

are you purposefully misunderstanding what i say? i meant the external recording to proprietary media, for one, i don't think you can go to any local electronics store and buy the DJI SSD straight off the shelf. and considering the fact that the DJI SSD doesn't come with the product, for two. not at least on the 6k. it's standard on the 8k version though. if you want it after the fact, you have to shell out 169€ for the SSD mount and 749€ for the 1TB PROSSD.

For a moment I had buyer's remorse that I finally picked up a Fujifilm X-M5 as my new EDC recently because I'd have loved this camera instead... but then I saw the price. They position it as direct competition to the Leica Q series. I'd rather get an A7C II at that point and buy a whole bunch of lenses with the left over money. Now the screen has higher resolution (than FX2) but won't even tilt? The feature sets on the newly releasing cameras are so disjointed.

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