2 October, 2025
Sony RX1R and the Illusion of Alternatives
When Sony announced the RX1R III, my mind immediately leapt back to the original RX1R – a camera I had once carried, loved, and ultimately let go. The cost of the RX1R III...
25 September, 2025
My Alternative to RX1RIII: Sony A7Cii and Mandler 35mm f/2
When Sony announced the RX1R III, my ears perked up. I’ve always love the idea of that little full-frame compact body that you could almost slip into a coat pocket. I once...
In late 2012 Sony produced a full-frame mirrorless camera. The Sony A99. For some time, Sony had been hedging its bets with regards to digital cameras. It had long produced vide...
23 September, 2024
Sony F828 Review – More than Meets the Eye
$995 in 2003 would probably buy a fair amount of Transformers toys, or one brand new Sony F828. It might be easy to mistake the two. Both bend and twist around in unexpected way...
In this series, I have previous talked about the Sony R1 and Sony a700, in this review, we look back at the Sony NEX-7 Back in 2010, Sony were still committed to their inherited...
In part 1, I talked about the Sony R1, this part is about a camera that represents another key moment in Sony’s APS-C camera history, the Sony a700. In July 2005 Sony anno...
This is the first of three reviews I’m preparing, looking at Sony’s APS-C camera range spanning 6 years and showing the three separate approaches they took in that time. Two yea...
The Shitty Camera Challenge is the antidote to photography competitions. Instead of celebrating the best that cameras have to offer it celebrates the worst. You have a Leica, fo...