Some Sony RX1 images

[Omaroo]

Just a small selection of some images I've taken lately with the RX1. I am so enjoying this camera.

[RobF]

I love your B&W work Chris. They're all great, but there's something about the first one that draws me in the most.

[Omaroo]

Thanks so much Rob :) Yes, it's unusual in that there is some sort of juxtaposition in the lines at 45 degrees that the tiles create and the line of tables which trails off at an isometric angle. I quite like it myself. :lol:

[Larryp]

Nice collection of photos, Chris :thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

Thank you very much Larry :hi:

[ourkind]

Wonderful work Chris! They're all good it's hard to choose just one, the ones that captures my attention the most the last two, sun rays and waiting for a Gelato.

[iceman]

Nice shots Chris!

[Omaroo]

Thank you both, Carlos & Mike. :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Pretty cool. My fax would be #7 and #8. Same kind of depth and light.

[lacad01]

Great candid shots, agree with the first one being a cracker but the landscape shots are really good as well with the light through the trees, very nice :thumbsup:

[RickS]

I like the two landscapes but they're all very nice! How does the RX1 compare to the OM-D, Chris?

[Omaroo]

Thanks Marc, Adam & Rick :)

> Rick - They're different cameras for different purposes really. Where the RX1 is arguably the best dedicated 35mm camera out there for travel and street, the OM-D is complex and ultimately flexible. I wouldn't give one up for the other because I use them differently. If you asked me which I'd grab going out the hypothetical door if I could only take one, it'd be the RX1 every time.

[astronobob]

Dig them Chris, 1st for me too, and the landscape tree sunlight silhouettes, stunning stuff !

[Omaroo]

Thanks Bob - much appreciated. :thumbsup:

[sheeny]

:thumbsup:

Great stuff Chris. I especially like 3 and 4 where you're being watched.;)

Al.

[Omaroo]

Thanks Al :) Strangely, they're more appealing to me than the others too. Taking photos of strangers head on is something that isn't easy.

[astroboy]

Some great shots there Chris , I do like these minimalist cameras but I went for the Fuji X100 and only had to sell one kidney.

Zane

[Omaroo]

Good - I was hoping someone still had a spare...

[Deeno]

Cool collection!
Some interesting processing. Done onboard or latter on the PC?

[Omaroo]

Thanks Deeno :) It's about .001%of what I've been doing lately. I don't want to flood the place with my black and whites... :lol: These shown here are conversions done within Lightroom 4.

I'd like to say that I only ever shoot RAW (.ARW in Sony-speak) and convert to mono, but I don't always. On the odd occasion I like to use the in-camera high contrast mono process as well as the rich-tone black and white process. The latter takes three -/+ev variants and merges similar to an HDR process - but in mono is far different to colour HDR. You don't gat garish colour, for one.

In fact, I'm going to the Campbelltown Steam & Machinery Museum for their open day today and will take the RX1, locked in one of the mono JPG modes, and my Contax T2 film camera for a bit of fun. I'll post some from the RX1 afterwards :) By the way - I still love my OM-D, and use it for much of my street work with the 75mm f/1.8 attached. Hard to beat! :thumbsup:

[Deeno]

I have (much cheaper) the earlier 45mm variant. Great for portraits. Almost lives on the camera. Have a billion shots of our two year old.
And I'm still in love with the 7.5mm Samyang fish-eye. What fun!

[gregbradley]

Wow.

Greg.

[gary]

Hi Chris,

Some lovely shots and the ones of the light through the trees are exceptional.

Compositionally, I would have loved to have seen the face of the ice cream
vendor in the last shot. :)

Stanley Kubrick originally got his eye in by roaming the streets with a camera in
his teens and twenties, eventually getting on the payroll of Look Magazine.

http://www.notorietyinc.com/blog/stanley-kubrick-%E2%80%98chicago1949%E2%80%B2-photo-set

[Omaroo]

Thanks very much Gary. The ice cream vendor was being most uncooperative, so I made him irrelevant. Them's the breaks - which is why the original title for that photograph was "Do you have any change?" - making the girl on the left my central object of interest as she reacts to the question from the girl buying and starts rummaging.

[rcheshire]

Natural response is wow! #4 is full of character. Trees in mist, evocative.

[Omaroo]

Thank you Rowland :) Much appreciated! :thumbsup: