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This whole thing is a really silly take. I can absolutely afford the RX1R Mark III and I can also say it's too expensive and there's no way I'd buy it at that price. And being mentioned in the same sentence as the Q is not a win when the sentence is "this damn thing is nearly as expensive as the Q, but isn't even a Leica." Otherwise, Fuji could just kick up the price on the X Half to $6,500 and enjoy that sweet victory. Obviously some people are going to buy the RX1R III. That was never in doubt. There are always some people who will pay any price for something they want. That's not to say that it's priceworthy.

I think that the elephant in the room at this point, at least in the US, is that camera vendors were already overcharging for the newest models - and now tariffs are pushing them to the point of just plain unaffordable. Fuji's price increases hit today - the GFX 100 II went from $7,500 to $8,300. GFX 100RF just went from $4,900 to $5,400 - making it now more expensive than the RX100 III, though still not by a lot. It seems likely that a bunch of manufacturers will boost prices all over the world to maintain some consistency and to force the rest of the world to at least partially finance the US tariffs (which is probably one of the reasons that the Sony is so expensive everywhere). If so, I wouldn't be surprised if that's a thing that reduces camera system changes and greatly decreases new camera purchases... also since the US economy is already starting to show signs of distress due to poor management from the current administration.

Absolutely - it's a fantastic price for just the body and I'm envious that you found it! If it were me, I'd still at least make a request that they give a partial refund since the item wasn't as-described and then I'd just take whatever they suggest, whether it's $20 or whatever. It never hurts to have an extra $20.

Can you contact the seller and ask for a partial refund since it's missing the lens? Seems worth a shot, at least!

In the meantime, that video got changed to private. Must have accidentally jumped the gun on making it public. Dang, DJI have a lot of leakers on this one.

Oh yeah, most definitely true! When I used Parsec in the past, it was when I was playing around with game streaming and that's often more latency-sensitive than something like using my video editor, though I'll also need to see how it is for frame-perfect transitions/effects that I want to align to audio. But for me, the use case isn't to reuse underpowered machines to backhaul to another machine - my M2 Max is powerful enough for anything I want to do (though I'm likely to buy an M5 something after they're released since my warranty on the M2 will probably be up around then) and I can just pick it up and carry it with me. For me, it's more about putting the editor on something with fast access to the underlying storage. Even though wifi has come a long way, it still sucks, in my experience, for editing high-bitrate footage from a nas (proxies would help, I'm sure). I'd be likely to still do color (and maybe fine tune audio/video sync edits) with the laptop on a wired connection through the dock, but as a silly example, I did a 48 hour film project a few weeks ago and at some point, one of the people is hallucinating some burnt toast talking to him. We ripped a little mouth in the bread. For the 48, I just warped the image for the hallucination, but now that I'm working on the extended cut, I'm animating the little mouth to move with the words. I suck at vfx since I barely ever do them and don't like them much so it took me a bit over an hour to get the first 3-4 words done. The next clip has about 10-12 words. They should go a bit faster now that I figured out what I'm doing, but... still probably a couple more hours. I'd rather do that lounging on the couch while watching a movie at night vs hunched over my desk. Maybe Parsec is my shortcut for that. That and there's another part with a transition that I can't nail down to where I like it, would rather play with that while comfy on the couch too.

Looks like someone decided not to wait for the embargo to lift before posting his review:

You might be talking me into reinstalling Parsec and trying this out, but for different reasons. Usually I edit on my Macbook (The lower-end M2 Max) and it's totally fine, but when I'm at home, I prefer to edit off my basement NAS instead of from external drives and I use a postgres database on a server next to it. But if I don't plug into the network (which means sitting at my desk where the dock with 10ge is), editing video is not great (and editing photos in Lightroom ain't great either). But I have a windows gaming PC also set up near the desk which has a pretty decent setup with a nice GPU. I suppose I could just parsec to that while on the couch or in bed and do my editing, with the main catch being that I need to use Windows shortcut keys. That or I wait until there's a decent deal on an M4 Mini with 10ge (there have been some solid deals, but they're always for the base model with only 1ge)

I never tried editing with Parsec, but it's a good idea! How does it handle color management? Or is that done by Better Display?

I'd also say that lens sharpness is relevant only in some contexts. A 35mm f/2 lens on a high-end point and shoot really needs to be "sharp enough" - and has to find the balance between sharpness and being too clinical. Unless you're taking pictures of a brick wall 30 meters away, chances are that the 35 has all the detail you'll ever need. Keep in mind that the previous camera using that lens had 45 megapixels - jumping to 61 is not huge. If I were only interested in still photos, the RX1R II would almost hands down be the choice, especially if I found a good deal. Flippy screen and cute lil' pop-up EVF like the RX100 series? Sign me up. Some of the other ergonomics look better on the new camera and it can record in 4K, barely. Is that worth thousands of dollars more? Not for me. Could be be an interesting camera in 5 years when the used price (hopefully) drops it more than 60%? Yes, it could be. Would I take it over a GFX 100RF that costs less? Absolutely not. My most frequently-used lens on the GFX 100 is the 32-64 and that's also an f/4 lens. Very sharp too. You can really count the molecules in those bricks in the wall 30 meters away.

For me, Stalker is one of the most gorgeous films ever made. I feel inspired every time I watch it!

I was going to say that's a crazy markup for about $0.10 in plastic, but then I saw that beautiful cloth bag that is included and it all made sense. 🤣

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.

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.