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Just stumbled across this rather damning review here
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2102
It brought up a few questions that i was interested in
As a glasses wearer this is of some concern to me. I'm sure i saw somewhere you COULD get dioptric correction attachments, it was something i was considering incase i'm unable to get close enough in to see the full frame, and shutter speed along the bottom whilst wearing my glasses. Any other glasses wearer care to comment on this? As for scratching your glasses, isn't there a rubber skirt available, or have people improvised a solution?
Later on he goes on to comment on the vignetting problem, yet he was given the 35/2.5 lens to review it with, and according to the luminous landscapes review its only moderate vignetting wide open, and gone by the time your at F/4. He has a landscape shot later on hilighting this problem, the bottom left corner of the image does look quite dark, i guess he must have been shooting with quite an open aperture. Just a quickie but are the LL statements correct, if i stick to above the apertures stated with the lenses described i should have NO noticeable vignetting?
Finally he goes on to say
The freezing i assume is the going to sleep thing, as my SLR does.. I guess if there is no way to spot it HAS gone to sleep its going to irritate more than on my SLR you can see the screen is blank.. do the dials go to their off positions when its asleep??! Oh and whilst i'm on the sleep thing, i read in a few other reviews complaints of the time taken to wake up.. yet in the same review it states that the startup time is very speedy.. is the wake up time significantly slower than the sleep time!?
But the real kicker is his cleaning mode statement.. Its the one thing that frustrates me about changable lenses on a digital camera.. sensor blobs.. his pictures later on are quite severely hit with blobs.. whether they're on the lens or on the sensor isn't too clear.. My 350D has a cleaning mode but i rarely use it and am very careful when changing lenses.. trying not to do it in a dusty area, titling the camera down when doing it, covering backs of lenses and bodies as quickly as possible.. I'm on my 2nd 350D body now, but before taking back my 1st one I managed to fix a blob quite easily with a blower through to the sensor... gently, 1 puff, no contact and gone.
ANyways he talks of not having the mode to do a similar thing but correct me if i'm wrong but surely you can setup your R-D1 with no lens, change the shutter speed to bulb, and take the shot, holding down the shutter and using a blower to gently blow any dust off the sensor. Isn't this possible? If the camera somehow senses no lens and doesn't take a picture (stopping you being able to experiment with a pinhole lens if you so wished 😉) then couldn't you use an adapter connected into the camera so it thinks a lens is connected but you still have access to the inside to disturb any problem spots.
As an aside, how protected is the sensor from dust and the like compared to say an SLR.. the mirror and shutter only offers minor protection, its certainly not air tight is it? hows the shutter on the R-D1 compared, purely for keeping things away from the sensor when its exposed?
I dunno, i've seen some so so reviews of the R-D1 but i'm still convinced it will be a good thing for me to have.. For starters i was going off the back of the LL reviews as pretty much removing or greatly reducing the vignetting problem, which seems to be one of the big things any reviewer jumps on when they are criticising it. i know alot of you guys are loving yours, but this review has struck me as quite the most negative i've come across scoring it at
Features, fair enough if those features are the convenience things that other digital cameras, and digital SLRs offer. Value too fair enough, tho pretty harsh.. its certainly an expensive bit of kit, but the Image Quality has obviously took a huge hit from his criticism of its vignetting. I dunno.. guess he just didn't like it.
Its the glasses use thats worrying me the most now, i'd appreciate hearing anyones opinions on this.. perhaps a poll for R-D1 users who use glasses and how they find it.. 😉
Thanks, as ever looking forward to your wisdom.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2102
It brought up a few questions that i was interested in
As a glasses wearer this is of some concern to me. I'm sure i saw somewhere you COULD get dioptric correction attachments, it was something i was considering incase i'm unable to get close enough in to see the full frame, and shutter speed along the bottom whilst wearing my glasses. Any other glasses wearer care to comment on this? As for scratching your glasses, isn't there a rubber skirt available, or have people improvised a solution?
Later on he goes on to comment on the vignetting problem, yet he was given the 35/2.5 lens to review it with, and according to the luminous landscapes review its only moderate vignetting wide open, and gone by the time your at F/4. He has a landscape shot later on hilighting this problem, the bottom left corner of the image does look quite dark, i guess he must have been shooting with quite an open aperture. Just a quickie but are the LL statements correct, if i stick to above the apertures stated with the lenses described i should have NO noticeable vignetting?
Finally he goes on to say
The freezing i assume is the going to sleep thing, as my SLR does.. I guess if there is no way to spot it HAS gone to sleep its going to irritate more than on my SLR you can see the screen is blank.. do the dials go to their off positions when its asleep??! Oh and whilst i'm on the sleep thing, i read in a few other reviews complaints of the time taken to wake up.. yet in the same review it states that the startup time is very speedy.. is the wake up time significantly slower than the sleep time!?
But the real kicker is his cleaning mode statement.. Its the one thing that frustrates me about changable lenses on a digital camera.. sensor blobs.. his pictures later on are quite severely hit with blobs.. whether they're on the lens or on the sensor isn't too clear.. My 350D has a cleaning mode but i rarely use it and am very careful when changing lenses.. trying not to do it in a dusty area, titling the camera down when doing it, covering backs of lenses and bodies as quickly as possible.. I'm on my 2nd 350D body now, but before taking back my 1st one I managed to fix a blob quite easily with a blower through to the sensor... gently, 1 puff, no contact and gone.
ANyways he talks of not having the mode to do a similar thing but correct me if i'm wrong but surely you can setup your R-D1 with no lens, change the shutter speed to bulb, and take the shot, holding down the shutter and using a blower to gently blow any dust off the sensor. Isn't this possible? If the camera somehow senses no lens and doesn't take a picture (stopping you being able to experiment with a pinhole lens if you so wished 😉) then couldn't you use an adapter connected into the camera so it thinks a lens is connected but you still have access to the inside to disturb any problem spots.
As an aside, how protected is the sensor from dust and the like compared to say an SLR.. the mirror and shutter only offers minor protection, its certainly not air tight is it? hows the shutter on the R-D1 compared, purely for keeping things away from the sensor when its exposed?
I dunno, i've seen some so so reviews of the R-D1 but i'm still convinced it will be a good thing for me to have.. For starters i was going off the back of the LL reviews as pretty much removing or greatly reducing the vignetting problem, which seems to be one of the big things any reviewer jumps on when they are criticising it. i know alot of you guys are loving yours, but this review has struck me as quite the most negative i've come across scoring it at
Features, fair enough if those features are the convenience things that other digital cameras, and digital SLRs offer. Value too fair enough, tho pretty harsh.. its certainly an expensive bit of kit, but the Image Quality has obviously took a huge hit from his criticism of its vignetting. I dunno.. guess he just didn't like it.
Its the glasses use thats worrying me the most now, i'd appreciate hearing anyones opinions on this.. perhaps a poll for R-D1 users who use glasses and how they find it.. 😉
Thanks, as ever looking forward to your wisdom.
