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Hi, I'm Mark Gayler and I'm a Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador And I want to take a look at Sony's RX1R Mark II camera This is a full-frame sensor in a compact body Now, this camera is not new In fact, this little camera here is now 10 years old But it's still selling remarkably well at quite high prices second-hand Now, if you are wanting to pick up one of these cameras It does come with a few caveats in that it is a 10-year-old camera So what I want to do in this video is look and see Whether it's still worth the money that people are asking for this camera And look at possibilities of maybe if and when Sony are ready to make a Mark III What that new camera should include So without much further to do, let's get started Hi, I'm Mark Gayler and I'm a Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador And welcome to my review of Sony's RX1R Mark II camera Now, I'm not in the habit of reviewing 10-year-old cameras normally But I'm going to make an exception for this one Because it's become somewhat of a modern-day classic camera The reasons for which will become evidence As I walk you through this video review Now, the RX1 story started way back in 2012 It was using a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor And this was a bit of an achievement for Sony To put this full-frame sensor in what is essentially a compact camera Now, in 2013, this camera was updated to become the RX1R camera Still 24 megapixels, but they removed the anti-aliasing filter So the information was even sharper than before Now, if you are in the market to purchase Perhaps one of these cameras second-hand Then you do have to be aware that these 2012 And 2013 models have contrast detect autofocus only With 25 focus points And there's no electronic viewfinder As pictured in the image to the right here Now, the whole story changed in 2015 When Sony released its RX1R Mark II With a whopping 42 megapixels And it was also a backside illuminated sensor So this really transformed the camera So much so that Sony was able to put in A 1.4 and 2x smart teleconverter feature This essentially allowed you to crop in camera Because it was a megapixel-rich sensor Giving us 49mm and 70mm full-frame equivalent angle of view You'd still end up with more than 4K resolution If you were cropping in camera To get these alternative focal lengths The camera also came with a compact finder Which was missing from the 2012 And 2013 24-megapixel versions Now, this finder was a little bit of a revolution in itself In the fact that it is a 0.39 type With 2.4 million dots Now, this isn't as good as, say, a modern-day A7R V camera But it is as good as the Alpha 7C II And Alpha 7CR viewfinders Now, remember this is a 10-year-old camera So this was amazing for that era For people who wanted a greater magnification ratio Sony also made a clip-on FDA EV1 MK finder With a whopping 1.09x magnification For a really bright, big view Now, surprisingly, I'm sure this camera Is probably out of production But it is still listed as being in stock In the B&H store in the USA Now, this camera is unavailable in Australia Where I'm talking from But it is listed as in stock, as I said, in B&H Now, the price is US$3,298 Now, this is probably the reason Why this camera was never a big seller When it was first released 10 years ago Now, the interesting point here Is the used price is still being listed as over US$2,300 If you choose that as-good-as-new condition Then you're going to be paying over US$2,500 For one of these RX1R Mark II compact cameras Now, to show you why this is Probably one of the reasons it is becoming a classic And a much sought-after camera second-hand Is you could actually pick up a 4-year-younger A7R IV camera for US$400 cheaper second-hand So that shows you a really high retail value For second-hand models of the RX1R Mark II camera Now, there are very few equivalent cameras If you are trying to look at alternatives That use full-frame sensors The one that springs to mind is, of course, the Leica Q3 And there is a 43 model of this Q3 camera 43 being for a 43mm F2 lens Unfortunately, being a Leica camera It is just a shade under US$7,000 So you could pick up more than two Of the RX1R Mark II cameras And still have US$300 left over in your pocket But I think these two cameras Are basically the full-frame compacts That I would normally recommend Somebody who is looking for that type of Fixed lens full-frame camera I have to say the Leica Q3 43 Is not nearly as compact as the RX1R Mark II camera And this might be a deciding factor Whether to go for a modern State-of-the-art fixed lens camera from Leica Or the smaller RX1 being a 10-year-old camera Now, I can actually squeeze the RX1R Mark II Into a jacket pocket Not going to get that in my jeans pocket But I can get it into a jacket pocket Whereas that Q3 is almost certainly Going to have to go into a camera bag The viewfinder experience Might be one of the things that put people off Using one of these cameras So if you are in the market for purchasing A second-hand RX1R Mark II camera See if you can find one that is being sold With the FD-A-EV1 MK viewfinder Because that is a compelling additional feature With that 1.9 times magnification ratio Now the Q343 Now there is a Leica 3.7 million dot finder there But it is not available for that Q343 It is only compatible with Leica's M10 and M11 cameras So you are going to get a better viewfinder experience By using the RX1R Mark II Either the pop-up finder Which has a very similar magnification ratio and resolution As the Alpha 7C II and Alpha 7C finders Or by looking for one of those second-hand viewfinders That clips on to that multi-interface shoe On the top of the camera Now if you were to Google What is the world's smallest full-frame camera You are going to come up with the Sigma FP camera Now this is a 24 megapixel camera And if you add on the optional viewfinder It is going to be bigger in every dimension And it is also going to be heavier than the RX1R Mark II So I still would like to give the title of World's smallest full-frame camera To the RX1R Mark II And this is again a compelling reason Why this is a modern day classic digital camera Now I am giving you a comparison view To an Alpha 7C II there Because somebody who is looking for Maybe the perfect street camera Is obviously going to be looking at These type of cameras The Alpha 7C stands for compact But you can see how much smaller that R1 camera is This is going to be a deciding factor for some people That older style camera is going to be Missing a few features that have been Arriving on the later model cameras And I'll get into more depth With those differences as we move forward Now the smallest classic camera I've got Is I've got that range finder Japanese made analog camera there Back from 1957 And that digital camera Has nearly come in at the same size there And if we again if we look on to the right side We compare it to an RX107 camera Now remember these cameras Come with just a 1 inch sensor And that RX1 carries that full-frame sensor Now I put a little bit of a small rig cage Because I actually find the little RX100 camera Is just a little bit too small to hand hold I said that this is perhaps a camera That many street photographers Will put on a high pedestal here Because of its form factor And you're not going to be Making a complete spectacle of yourself By walking around with a very large digital camera And when you're walking around with the RX1 It does indeed look like a compact camera So you are going to go pretty much Under cover, under the radar When working quite close to people in the street It is also that 35mm focal range On that fixed lens Is also a classic field of view For shooting maybe street scenes And also urban architecture As we can see in this example here Now because we don't have the option to zoom We can crop in camera By using the 1.4 or 2 times smart teleconverter feature But that is only available When shooting in the JPEG file quality setting So for me I'm just going to zoom with my legs So I've just basically walked into that scene That we previously saw To get a close up of this little golfing buggy here Now there are some details within the scene That I want to go even closer to So again I've just zoomed with my legs To get that much closer tighter shot Of what was on the tank behind that golf buggy there Now one of the great things about Using a compact camera With a full frame sensor Is its amazing dynamic range Here I've lowered the exposure This is an unprocessed image And I'm lowering the exposure So I don't overexpose the bright highlights As we can look at over that vineyard in the background And then all I do is recover All of that shadow information in post production And the quality of that shadow information is excellent Because remember it is a backside illuminated sensor Harking back to the A7R2, A7R3 era Again another example Again lowering the exposure Using the exposure compensation dial So I'm not overexposing those brightest highlights And then recovering the shadows In post production editing Just by grabbing that shadow slider And moving it over to the right Now if we take a closer look at this Karl Zeiss 35mm F2 lens There is a macro feature We can basically turn a dial Just behind the focusing ring there To focus on things that are 0.2 to 0.35 metres From the camera So this allows you to get in close with the camera It's got quite a reasonable close focusing distance But as soon as I turn that ring I can go in even closer For these detailed tight shots That I'm creating here So when we're working And we're looking at creating Maybe a storyboard Shot at different distances I can get the flowers with the landscape behind I can get in to get a single bloom there And then I can go in really close By just turning that macro ring On the front of the lens For that real close focusing distance Again moving that macro ring away So I can get the broader landscape I hold up a glass of wine Turn that macro ring And get a really close up shot Of my wine glass there So there's great flexibility With this particular 35mm Carl Zeiss lens Now I've moved in to a little bit of wine tasting At the vineyard indoors So the ISO is shot up to 12800 I've zoomed in to 100% magnification In Lightroom here And there you can see the very small noise structure here This has been unprocessed for high ISO noise So this is basically what you're looking at Before you are doing the high ISO noise reduction If you're basically just using Or not cropping tightly in post production That noise is pretty much OK Without having to do any high ISO noise reduction So this really shows you the advantage Of perhaps why you would use Maybe a full frame sensor Over maybe a fixed lens camera Using an APS-C sensor Now if we take a look at that Carl Zeiss Sonar F2 35mm lens It does have a leaf shutter Now most cameras have focal plane shutters Or electronic shutters This one has a leaf shutter Actually in the lens element itself So this is some examples This one wasn't captured with the RX1 It just shows you a particular flash workflow When I'm shooting portraits on location What I often like to do is I like to underexpose the ambient background By one or two stops And then fully illuminate the subject with flash Coming through a lighting modifier Such as a beauty dish or softbox or umbrella Now I really With a maximum sync speed On most cameras of 1 160th of a second Or 1 250th of a second I can't really go out into bright conditions Without maybe using an ND filter To darken the background Or use high speed sync mode Now unfortunately with using high speed sync mode We are lowering the power of the flash enormously And that might preclude me from Just using a speed light Such as one of Sony's speed lights That we see there The HVL-F46 So here's another example Now I'm having to go away From the bright ambient conditions Away from the sunlight In order to be able to underexpose the background there Here this time underexposing the background By one stop Raising the flash compensation to plus 1 Because the young woman here Is wearing white coloured clothing So I'm just having to balance that Now here's a shot that I captured with flash Using Sony's Alpha 9 III camera Which is using the world's first Full frame global imaging shutter Now this one doesn't have any maximum sync speed Because it is a very special sensor That we're using here Now what I'm able to do here Is capture this at a sports event And this is in full sunlight But I can pretty much turn day into night By using that 1 8000th of a second sync speed OK, so let's take a look at images That I've captured with the RX1R Mark II Here I'm using a 1 250th of a second sync speed That we might find on cameras With focal plane shutters And as you can see As I'm working in a very bright condition here With sunlight around I can't darken the background anymore I've already stopped down to F 7.1 Lowered the ISO to 100 And you see that I'm really Still not darkening that background significantly at all Compare this to the next shot Where I've raised the shutter speed To 1 4000th of a second And a leaf shutter allows me to do this We don't have the latest Alpha 9 III Global shutter sensor But we do have that leaf shutter That allows me to do a similar sort of thing So again I can underexpose the background When I'm working even in sunlit conditions So that is another compelling reason Why the RX1R Mark II Is pretty much a classic camera This might indicate that Even though we haven't seen an update to this camera in 10 years Maybe Sony should be thinking of an update For the RX1R Mark II camera So hopefully or maybe in 2025 We may see an RX1R Mark III Now there is a little bit of a challenge ahead for Sony here And I'm going to try and outline What these challenges might be Now if somebody was going to do a checklist Of what features you would like to see added To the RX1R Mark II camera For a new and improved version Some people might say Well let's add in-body image stabilisation Because remember this camera comes from an era That predates in-body image stabilisation Let's also add the larger Z series battery Because there is a little bit of a pain point With these RX1R cameras In that they do use very very small batteries Now one of the things that only slows the focusing down Of this RX1R camera Is really the older focus motors Most of the Sony lenses now use linear XT focus motors Which make the lenses very rapidly focusing And because this lens predates that technology The focus isn't quite as snappy As what we might expect Maybe using an Alpha 7C camera And some of the maybe the 24mm 40mm and 50mm G compact lenses Which will have snappier focusing Now one of the big challenges however is When Sony added in-body image stabilisation And a larger Z series battery To the Alpha 6400 APS-C camera They made the new Alpha 6600 camera 3.5 ounces or 100 grams heavier than the 6400 Now if Sony took a similar approach By adding the in-body image stabilisation And that larger battery to an RX1R Mark II design It would render it just 2 ounces lighter Than a current Alpha 7CR camera And it wouldn't actually be that much smaller either So who would buy a fixed lens camera Of a camera of a very similar size To the current day Alpha 7C2 Alpha 7CR cameras So I'm going to show you a size comparison Of that RX1R Mark II camera With the current Alpha 7CR camera So there we have the dimensions Now obviously the RX1R Mark II Is appreciably smaller But if we take a look at the Z series battery size The NP-FZ100 size battery See how much larger it is from the current battery size Now if we're going to try and accommodate that in the body We are going to have to enlarge that body size somewhat So if I just pop it down Over the current RX1R Mark II camera And then expand the body out to accommodate that battery We're also going to have to make the body a little bit thicker If we're also going to add the in-body image stabilisation For that IBIS cradle there So we're going to be looking at a camera Now of a very similar form factor To the current Alpha 7C2 Alpha 7CR cameras So RX1R II or RX1R III Versus an Alpha 7CR Now obviously the Alpha 7CR Is already available So we're not having to wait for that one So is somebody looking for the perfect street camera Prepared to wait Only to find that the new version Is a very similar size and weight To the current Alpha 7CR So let's take a look at this in a little bit more detail As we can see there Sony have done a really good job Of keeping both of these cameras really small For the cameras to have that full frame Remember the Alpha 7CR Also has that in-body image stabilisation Now if we take a look at the cost price The RX1R which is a 10-year-old camera Comes in at more than $300 more Than a current Alpha 7CR You have to remember that is body only price And you are getting that amazing Carl Zeiss F2 Sonar lens with the RX1R II camera Take a look at side view I've also put maybe the 40mm F2.5G Which is going to be a popular choice For somebody who decides to go down The interchangeable lens A7C camera Rather than the fixed lens RX1 camera choice there If we look around for other small fixed lens cameras Because we want the camera to be Absolutely as small as possible You might look towards the very very popular Fujifilm X100 cameras Now this APS-C camera Is not only lower in resolution It's also larger and heavier Than the RX1R II camera As you can see from this diagram There are some smaller Fujifilm cameras Interchangeable lens cameras around Which are quite lightweight But if we just turn the cameras onto their back Remember this Fujifilm interchangeable lens camera In order to keep the weight down Doesn't feature in body image stabilization either So there is a bit of a level playing field here Except the Sony RX1R II Has that full frame sensor If we lay the cameras down on their back We can actually see Even this Fujifilm XM5 camera Is still a little bit chunky Compared to the RX1R II camera So we're still getting a slightly better form factor On that 10 year old camera there If you wanted to get a much smaller camera And you will probably have to go into The APS-C sensor size And you're going to have to go into fixed lens And you are going to be looking at something like A Ricoh GR Which has got a bit of a fan club Because this is a very small fixed lens camera It does have an F2.8 lens Now remember the RX1R II has an F2 lens So twice as bright But if we look at the depth of field equivalent We have to apply the 1.5 times crop factor The APS-C crop factor To that F2.8 So we're only getting Depth of field equivalent of F4.2 So you are going to struggle a little bit Getting figure ground separation Or making your subjects pop from the background Using an APS-C sensor With a 2.8 aperture lens So I think most people will probably come If they value that full frame sensor Will come back to looking at the RX1 10 year old camera Versus the current Alpha 7C II And Alpha 7R cameras Now we're looking at a similar price point And we're looking at a price point there With the lens included On the Alpha 7CR camera on the right there Now you might want to pause this And take a look at the specs I'll just go through it very briefly here Now if you're looking for The lightest camera you are It's going to be the RX1R Mark II If you are looking for that Really fast flash sync speed It is going to be again The RX1R Mark II camera 1.4 thousandth of a second If we stop the lens down to F5.6 It does have a 1.2 thousandth of a second Maximum shutter speed If we're working with 2.8 or F2 aperture values there Now all of those little red crosses there Are just showcasing this camera Is an older 10 year old camera There is a bit of a problem with battery life as well It's got no in-body stabilization No AI subject recognition It's got a USB 2.0 in-out interface Which is quite slow when we're trying to transfer 42 megapixel files to the camera In raw file format We've got the older style menus And there's no touch menus And if you are shooting movies Or recording movies They are HD 1080 movies Rather than the 4K movies there So let's just go through those negatives again No AI subject recognition The AF precedes the really super sticky 2019 real time tracking algorithms The AF motors in the 35mm lens Are not linear XT focus motors So if you're trying to work with F2 And you're just trying to shoot from the hip From people who may be running towards you You are going to find yourself missing quite a few shots Which you'd probably get With the modern day Alpha 7C cameras And modern day Sony lenses It's got slower human IAF They're older IAF algorithms So if the subject turns to profile view Sometimes the IAF does not kick in And we've got no animal IAF We've got pre-2020 menus And there's no touch menus One 2000th of a second maximum Shutter speed at F2 and 2.8 If you are working in sunlight It may require that you use an ND filter On sunny days Because you're going to be overexposing Your highlights Because the ambient light is just too bright For you to use an F2 aperture We've got no steady shot for stills We've got digital steady shot for video But not for stills We've got HD movies No 4K movies No UHS-II card slots So we're restricted to using The older SDXC memory cards Rather than the SDXC2 memory cards We've got a slow USB 2 in out And no Bluetooth It's NFC and Wi-Fi only And we've got no APS-C mode We've got a smart tele 1.4 and 2x It's great that we've got We're replicating those 1.4 and 2x teleconverters That people are used to adding To their telephoto zooms But it is JPEG only And APS-C mode on the modern cameras We're allowed to shoot in RAW format as well And we've got that small NP-BX1 battery And when you're working in street photography And the camera's always on And maybe we've bumped the monitor Up to very bright, sunny weather conditions You're going to get as little as 30 minutes On each battery So you're going to have to put An extra two or three batteries in your pocket If you intend to do street photography all day There is, however, some big positives Remember, this is a classic camera Because it is using that 42 megapixel Full frame Exmor R backside illuminated CMOS sensor Now this sensor When this sensor appeared in the Alpha 7R II I basically turned my back on digital SLRs And I became a mirrorless convert So this sensor was a big turning point For huge quality improvements In Sony image making It's also got a very unique piece of technology there And it's got a variable optical low-pass filter So it allows you to shoot with full detail Without an anti-aliasing filter But if you are getting moiré Then you can dial in this Variable optical low-pass filters To try and remove that moiré And we've got a really good Zeiss Sonar T-Star 35mm f2 lens With leaf shutter So there's a lot going for this camera And if you are prepared to put up With some of the modern day features That you're going to have to do without This camera is still going to be a viable option For many photographers If we take a look at dynamic range comparisons With modern sensors This is comparing the dynamic range Of an RX1R Mark II With the dynamic range of the 60 megapixel backside illuminated sensor Featured in the Alpha 7R V And Alpha 7CR These are class leading dynamic range Modern dynamic range And we see that the RX1R Mark II Really doesn't lose out that much Compared to very modern sensors So again posing that question If this camera is so good Surely we're going to see an RX1R Mark III If Sony can overcome some of those challenges And for a lot of street photographers They might say just keep it small Leave out the in-body image stabilisation I'm just prepared to raise the shutter speed Rather than have a bigger body camera So again let's take a look At the side-by-side comparisons Because this is going to be a choice That many photographers are going to have to make Is would I feel better about Working with an Alpha 7CR A modern camera with all of the bells and whistles Great steady shot And the option of working with interchangeable lenses So I can vary my focal length I don't have to zoom with my feet And this does allow an owner Of one of these Alpha 7C II or Alpha 7R To adapt classic glass Through lens adapters Here there's a TechArt adapter So this is actually making A manual focus Voigtlander lens Have a reasonably quick autofocus Probably not even as quick as the RX1R Mark II But it does have usable autofocus performance Or as you can see in the bag there We can use modern fast focusing glass So we are getting choices The Fujifilm X106 Does have the option of working with converters We can choose to work with a 28mm Or 50mm converter on these cameras It does however make these APS-C cameras Even bigger than an Alpha 7C II Or Alpha 7CR camera So if you are looking for a maximum Weight saving and size saving And you do want a full frame sensor You are going to move towards the Alpha 7C II Rather than working with a Fujifilm fixed lens camera And those converters Now the Alpha 7C cameras Have got a little bit of a fan club there Because a lot of people are adapting glass Some people are adapting Leica lenses From 25, 30 years ago Or if you're just a little bit more on a tighter budget Maybe the Voigtlander lenses Here this is a Noctua 35mm f1.4 lens On that TechArt AF adapter Now I went out and just reviewed This particular lens camera combination Now if you're going to get a really acceptable sharpness You are going to be stopping down from f1.4 Down to a working aperture of f2 To get a good deal of sharpness Across the frame there But when you've done that You're basically working with classic vintage style glass On a modern day camera And as you can see from these examples And I'll put a link in the video below So you can take a look at these examples Captured on RX1R Mark II cameras And also Alpha 7C cameras Using this more vintage style glass here So as you can see Even with a 35mm lens working at f2 We can get good figure ground separation When we're going in for these tighter Head and shoulder portraits You don't need that f1.2 50mm lens Or a f1.4 85mm lens If you're just prepared to step A little bit closer to your subjects You can get excellent figure ground separation And remember we have that 35mm f2 choice On the RX1R Mark II cameras So if you decide that Yes I do need that snappier focus Then of course we do have A range of fast focusing compact lenses Now you won't get the f1.4 in the f1.2 form factor But here's Sony's 40mm and 50mm G lenses Working with f2.5 apertures there And you can see they're fully featured lens As well as having those XT linear focus motors Another choice for somebody who chooses An Alpha 7C interchangeable lens Camera over and above a fixed lens 35mm lens there Is that you could also work with Some classic Sony digital glass These are Sony's oldest E-mount FE primes here The 35mm 2.8 Zeiss lens And the 55mm 1.8 Zeiss lens 4.3 ounces from that 35mm 2.8 lens And just 10 ounces for that 55mm lens They're really sharp Even though they're now 12 year old lenses They're still very sharp lenses And you can even put some Vintage retro style lens hoods on these cameras As I've done in this particular example here I carried this two lens combination This Zeiss Duo Into this very small Wotancraft Cantina bag there And this gave me almost a perfect street setup And here are some examples Captured with the 35mm 2.8 in Italy Doing a little bit of street photography In Umbria here And this one captured in Venice on a rainy day And this one up at Lake Garda Even though it's only got a 2.8 aperture I'm still able to handhold and get Some reasonably good shots Even at the high ISO Even if it means just putting a little bit of a high ISO Noise reduction in post production editing And this one A long exposure handheld in Venice here Some choices there for somebody who's going for Maybe the Alpha 7C But let's switch back now to the RX1R Mark II camera Using that fixed 35mm Carl Zeiss lens And I took this out a number of times Just around Melbourne and also vineyard In order to get some examples of what You can expect from working with this particular camera Now I do a lot of street photography I did have to slow my workflow down just a little Just to make sure that the camera Was tracking the subject I couldn't always guarantee Like I can with an Alpha 7C II And a modern Sony lens That it's always going to lock on first time And if I'm using the Eye AF I do have to hold down a custom key program to Eye AF In order for that to engage Because 10 years ago That's the workflow that we used to do We didn't auto engage with the Eye AF But as you can see from these images And I will make high resolution versions of these images Available on my Flickr Pro account here But as you can see that 35mm Is pretty much a classic focal length For doing a lot of street and documentary work And we do have, as we're getting close We do have that opportunity To get some shallow, creative shallow depth of field With this particular lens Here's a little bit more of a grab shot that did work I almost didn't stop walking As I was passing this group in a lane way And it's a dark lane way So high ISO working with this In order to grab this shot And I did get the face that I intended to be in sharp focus These are the shots which are a lot more reliable Where we find somebody in the street scene Which is pausing And we can actually just take a little bit more longer Maybe an additional one or two seconds Just to ensure we actually have sharp focus At the focal point where we want it And again a little bit of urban architecture And this lens lends itself to this really, really well We really don't have to worry about dust spots on the sensor If we are stopping down to F11, F16 Because remember you can't get dust on a sensor If you can't remove the lens So that could be seen as another positive When we are shooting urban landscapes At those smaller apertures And again pretty much wide open Step back a couple of steps We do have sufficient depth of field To get pretty much everything in sharp focus And we got quite a few shots Where I just bumped the shutter speed To maybe 1 500th of a second Just to ensure that I was getting sharp information And the depth of field I might just stop down to F4 Just to ensure if there is a little bit of a focus area I am still going to get sharp focus Moving out into the winery shoot now With some of the tanks for the making of the wines here Going in a little bit closer for some of the shadow detail Stopping down maybe to F11 To get that deep depth of field From foreground to background there Again sort of a smaller aperture type shot here Going in very very close with that macro feature now Working maximum aperture F2 To get that really shallow depth of field And figure ground separation Again going in really close Maximum aperture To get a little bit of a peeling tree bark On this eucalypt tree here Again stopping down maybe to F8 And some of the feedback I can give you I am using this camera Compared to maybe an Alpha 7C II Or Alpha 7CR camera These are my takes on that particular experience Now the first thing I noticed is I am a big fan of the zone The AF tracking zone focus area And we have wide and we have the spot focuses But there was no zone option And I did have to be aware of that slower AF-C So I attribute that mostly not to the sensor But to the focus motors in that lens So any new version of this camera Would almost certainly resolve that There is no option to change The color of the focus area to red So when I was using a spot Sometimes with that gray focus area Sometimes it was a little bit hard to recognize Where maybe the off-center spot had been moved to Face recognition but no auto IF So I had to access the IF By holding down a custom key It's got the older AF performance So sometimes if the face is slightly obscured Or the sitter turns into profile view The IF isn't guaranteed to kick in That 1,000th of a second maximum shutter speed Did rear its head So I've either got to stop down to maybe F4 Or I've got to put on an ND4 or ND8 filter On front of the lens It switches too quickly from the monitor To the EVF So the little eye sensor is a little bit over keen Sony resolved this on later models And if you flip out the monitor On later model Sony cameras It prevents the camera From automatically switching to the finder If the camera body is moved very close to your chest Which is often what I do When I'm shooting using the finder So the workaround for this is Just to push the pop-up finder Down back into the camera body And then it forces the camera To stay on the monitor We've got that shorter battery life So you're going to need to purchase At least two more additional little batteries In order to go through a whole day And I've also invested in a little battery charger So I can be charging one in camera And one in the battery charger When I find that I'm back at the end of the day Here's another thing to note Is if you are going to be looking for Maybe one of the second-hand RX1 R Mark II cameras Just check the status of that internal battery That's not the little pop-in battery That's the internal battery Which just keeps a memory Of the date and year that you set on the camera So if you have the opportunity to test Maybe a nine-year-old camera Just set the date and time Pop out the battery Put in the battery again And just see whether it's remembered the date and time If it hasn't Then there's a good chance that internal battery Has gone completely flat And that might need If it can't be recharged and keep its charge You may be looking at sending the camera for repair For that camera to be dismantled And the battery replaced So I've had a really good experience With reviewing the RX1R Mark II camera That I borrowed Now after experiencing the RX1R Mark II first-hand Would I buy one second-hand Now that's a good question And I am sort of keen to sort of track one down Even though they do command a very high price But because it's a classic camera I don't expect if I did purchase one A mint condition one second-hand I don't expect it to depreciate very quickly if at all Because it is a certified classic in my opinion Now if I am looking for one I'd probably try to seek one out With the plug-in viewfinder That goes onto that multi-interface shoe I would really like a big 1.09 times magnification And also a finder that I can angle When I'm shooting from my chest So I think that is going to be something That I will start looking for now Now some people might say But yes, maybe I should wait for the RX1R Mark III And there is a chance that this camera will never appear Because of those challenges that I have outlined That face Sony They will possibly want to put in in-body image stabilisation And if they do and put in a larger Z series battery Then it's going to be a very similar size To the Alpha 7C cameras And I already have an Alpha 7C II camera That I use for street So there is a big question Hanging over this decision for me I've enjoyed my experience with this camera though And if you are in the market for a street camera Then I would recommend this particular camera It is going to be a classic for Probably for the many years to come If you'd like to catch up with me online Just head over to patreon.com forward slash Mark Gayler You will find an e-book for your late model Alpha camera And when I say late model I mean anything from 2009 onwards My Premium Plus patrons have the access to Q&A forums Where I can resolve any manner of technical problems That they might be facing And also give them advice about purchasing of gear Maybe the correct choice for lenses When people 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