| Photo: Richard Butler |
As usual, one of the first things we did when we got Sony DSC-RX 1R III, it took to our studio, to see how it performs.
The camera lens has a degree of deformation, but it is not mandatory to fix it, so the way we have shot the RX1R II: disasterian improvement with JPEGS is applied, without raw files. However, it is worth noting that Adobe Camera Raw automatically applies chromatic abation improvement.
Studio view
Our Test scene is designed to follow the scene Different types of textures, color and expansion types will cope in the real world. It also has two lights mode to see the effects of various lighting conditions.
We will look closely on the lens in a separate test, but you can see the sensor of RX1R III as you expect. This can not match the Leica Q3 43 for expansion, but it is capturing fine expansion compared to Mark II, with its 42MP sensors. The noise is comparable with two other cameras, with which it shares with a sensor and its predecessor, when compared to a normal output shape.
The JPEG engine performs a good job of drawing fine expansion, and maintains it up to a reasonable degree in a high ISO. The color rendering appears to be a match for recent Sony cameras, perhaps there was perhaps a little less blue greens and green yellow than the RX1R II.
Take a close look at the lens
Our test visual lens is not designed to test, but allows a proper work distance, so the results should not be far away from those you receive from everyday shoots (we will publish a sample gallery in the coming days, to compare you). It also lets you check when the lens intensifies and when the vignating disappears.
In this scene, images are processed with geometric deformation improvement. They have also been processed with a slightly high level, which we use for the standard testing view, to give a better idea what you can do of them.
The first thing you are seeing is that all have become f2.8 in the viewing on F2.0. While sharpness takes longer, it still improves when you reach F5.6.
Closing the reforms reveals a degree of barrel deformation, but it’s only something you like to notice if you are shooting the test chart or brick walls. If you fix the results then there is no significant harm of sharpness, so it is really a question of taste whether you choose to apply reforms.
Overall, it is appropriate to say that the counting of high pixels begins to reveal the limits of the lens on the wider aperture, but still does a good job when going down. And, although both are not perfectly comparable (Leika was processed with Capture one, which does not yet support Sony), the performance is well lower than the leka of leika Q3 43 on the wider aperture.
In practice we found that, while it lacks significant sharpness in the distance and aperture used for portrait, it saves all what you can expect for landscape shots.
