VLF

[quote name='DPC' timestamp='1344415565' post='15114'] With the Gorilla Plate, the finder frame, without spacer or modification, sits a little too high and to the right. (...) Some kind of matte box might be a solution, but by the time you have added that and a Zacuto finder with a spacer, you no longer have a compact camera. [/quote] My Zfinder sits too high, with a spacer cut from an Ikea chopping board (5mm) works perfectly. I'm not finding it sitting too far to the right. With the sliding attachment moved hard to the right, if fits 100%. Not a compact camera, but beats a 12kg Flight case! :-)

I've had the camera for 6 days now and overall I'm very impressed. My unit, or the card are faulty and, hopefully, will be replaced tomorrow. That aside, it's a little beast! Beats my 7D hands down in low light. Perfectly usable footage can be shot in a room lighted with three standard domestic globes in standard fittings, lap shades and all - amazing. AWB works great as well. The problems start outdoors, where on a sunny winter's day in Australia I had to use F11 and shutter of 1/400, which at 50FPS simply doesn't work. (How many ND filters would I need to bring it back to F1.8 1/100? - frightening thought!) In video mode the stabiliser crops the sensor switching the lens from 28 to almost 35mm. Changing the setting to "Standard" (stabiliser) introduces a negligible crop, off = no crop. So, for tripod work in wide angle turn off the stabiliser. I have also rigged it up onto my Zacuto Gorilla plate and a ZFinder. This requires a spacer under the camera as the ZFinder mounts about 5mm too high. Without the spacer, the front wheel rubs on the Gorilla plate. The distance between the bottom of the camera and the bottom of the wheel is a fraction of a millimetre. Once screw fixed onto the plate, the plate's rubber bulges up and the wheel starts rubbing. The biggest problem I see (haven't played with it yet) is the location of the HDMI port. Whoever designed it should be made to wear a paper hat of shame for the rest of their life. Some serious surgery will be required to mount the RX100 on a tripod and hook up an external monitor. I admire the guts of the person glueing a thread ring to the front of the lens - I wouldn't dare. My next step will be Mad-Max'ing a rail and a filter holder with a matte flag. Probably built around my 80's Cokin holder and filers, which are still in the old camera box. And of course, thanks for the review. It contributed to my decission to buy the RX100. cheers VLF