Carísima, pesadisima y enorme: por lo demás, «cojonuda»
Un tanto a destiempo, bueno, un mucho a destiempo porque no es ninguna novedad, el bueno de Ken Rockwell publica su análisis de la Sony RX10 Mark IV, una de las compactas no compactas «mas mejor» del mundo mundial. Sin que el Sr.Sony me envíe mi correspondiente 3% nunca diré que es la mejor, pero que conste que si me lo hubiera enviado lo hubiera dicho sin ambages porque es cierto.
Esta maquinita solo tiene dos problemas del tipo «mas».
- Es más grande y pesada que muchas DRSR y no digamos ya «mirrorless».
- Y es más cara que muchísimas de ellas.
En el improbable caso de que queráis saber alguna cosa más, añado los habituales apartados del bueno de Ken.
New:
Compared to the RX10 Mk III:
- 24 FPS with full AF tracking, up from 5½ FPS with full tracking (the RX10 Mk III’s 14 FPS rate only worked with locked focus).
- 250 JPG buffer, up from 50 JPGs.
- Phase-Detection autofocus. Mk III only had contrast detection, which the Mk IV also retains.
- Claimed three times faster autofocus.
- 290 Phase-Detection focus points, up from only 25 contrast-detection areas.
- New AF-A mode automatically switches between AF-S and AF-C depending on what your subject is doing.
- Improved Focus Peaking.
- Two-speed electronic zooming (Mk III only had one zoom speed).
- Most rear buttons are now more raised than in the Mk III, making them much easier to locate by feel.
- Bluetooth.
- App used with Bluetooth lets you add GPS data from your phone to your in-camera files as you shoot.
- About double the clip length in the super slo-mo (high frame-rate) modes.
- Adds S-Log 3 gamma curve option for video (both Mk III and Mk IV have S-Log 2).
- Relatively useless touch screen (only for selecting focus area) versus no touch screen at all.
- New My Menu menu page, and options to save «Custom holds,» which save and recalls sets of exposure and drive settings. Both still have the same MR (memory recall) position on the mode dial to recall complete camera states.
- Slightly more rear LCD screen dots (no visible difference), which leads to 5% less battery life if using the rear LCD. The Mk IV uses the same battery as the Mk III and has the same battery life if using the electronic finder.
- Much higher price.
Good:
- Fantastic lens with huge zoom range works well without reservations; images as good as from a DSLR.
- Outstanding flash performance. Blazing 1/2,000 sync speed allows the built-in flash to outperform an external flash on most DSLR and interchangeable-lens mirrorless cameras for exceptional daylight fill-flash!
- Fantastic macro ability.
- No distortion, fast focus, perfect exposure and pretty good color rendition.
- Quiet leaf shutter and/or completely silent electronic shutter.
- 24 FPS with full tracking autofocus and exposure.
- Superb live finder looks perfect in any light.
- WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC.
Missing:
- No second card slot.
- No full touch screen (only selects AF point); won’t work for menus, playback or text entry.
- No GPS (use the app and it gets that data from your phone).
- While autofocus tracks moving action wonderfully, you can’t change the zoom setting while shooting in continuous shutter mode. While AF does a marvelous job of tracking a subject coming towards you, you can’t change the zoom setting while shooting a series of frames.
- No M1 M2 memory recall modes on the top mode dial as we have on Sony’s interchangeable-lens cameras, just one «MR» mode from which you can recall your presets. This means you have to use several clicks to do what the interchangeable-lens cameras do in just one.
No me hubiera importado nada hacer esta foto, aunque solo fuera por haber estado ahí, eso si, con mi 5D Mark IV.
Y ahora ya si, solo para viciosillos, aquí os pongo no solo el análisis completo con su multitud de muestras y colores tipo «cromo» que se gasta el bueno de Ken, sino también el completo manual de usuario de la nada compacta maquinita.
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