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- Jack
X30? Oh boy ...
To get 70mm to an 100mm angle of view, you need to crop of x1.4ish. That would mean losing a bit less than 1 stop of DoF, making the 70mm f2.8 equivalent into a 100mm with a DoF like F4 on a 1 inch sensor, which is still faster than 100mm F4.9. And you'd still have 14ish megapixels to work with.
An E-PLX with a popup finder like that would be uber awesome.
The camera it doesn't replace, though, is the GR ...
X30? Oh boy ...
Chris is saying that the high ISO / low light is better on the III than the first two models due to the new processor. They didn't quite say it was a full stop better but they did say 6400 is usable on this model where it wasn't quite on the previous models (pretty much my experience with the first one - 3200 was surprisingly good but 6400 was a step too far). I'm assuming this is a jpeg processing thing only if the sensor is the same and there's probably no difference in raw. But I'd love to find out I was wrong...Here is Jordan and Chris's review from the camerastoretv:
AS of this morning B&H had them in stock. I put my order in. Should get it Thursday. This continues to be the smallest high quality SC as far as I can see.
Dan,
There was a bit of an uproar on the DPR Sony forum yesterday over this. B&H showed them in stock yesterday morning, a number of people ordered them and were told they'd ship later in the day. But evidently Sony had a release date of June 20th on the camera and a lot of those folks had their ship date and order status changed later in the day. By last night there were some conflicting reports with a few people saying their's still showed as shipping yesterday while other's had clearly been held up. Did you get an actual shipping notification yet? I hope you get it when it was promised. Sounds like a screw up somewhere along the line between B&H and Sony.
-Ray
You are right, Ray. I got a notice this morning that there is a hold from Sony until June 20th even though B&H has them in stock. The original reply from B&H said expected delivery was to be yesterday. I do not like being misled, so I cancelled my order this morning. In fact, about the time they would ship on the 20th I will be up in your area for the Lenswork Roadshow.
As one might expect, the Sony forum on DPR absolutely erupted yesterday over this. Many accusations of bad faith on the part of B&H. Where it was clearly just a screw up. They had / have them in stock but can't ship them until the 20th because of an embargo by Sony. But somebody in the web department didn't get the message in time and didn't put the message on the site (for the first few hours - then changed it) so a bunch of people ordered and were told their orders would ship that day. Henry from B&H was on the site answering questions and apologizing for the error, but the natives were / are out for blood and believe it was a concerted effort to rip off their customers. Because B&H has always done business that way? Pretty ugly scene - unfortunately not surprising.
Anyway, sorry you got caught in that. I'd never heard of the lenswork roadshow. Just looked it up. I'd love to come meet up with you while you're in the area, but we're heading for the shore that (next) weekend while some extensive work is done to our place. So probably not a workable time. I hope it's a good workshop!
-Ray