08-18-2014, 06:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2014, 11:16 AM by Brightcolours.)
Both the FZ1000 and the RX10 just use the Leica and Zeiss label on the lens for marketing purposes. Panasonic and Sony have been doing that to most compact camera lenses for eons, it seems...
Both have 2.73x crop sensors with 20.2mp (2.4 µm pixel pitch). A FF 20mp DSLR will start to lose resolution due to diffraction past f8. These 1" (no, I do not know why these sensors are called 1" when they are not 1") sensors of the FZ1000 and RX10 will start to lose resolution due to diffraction of light when you go past f2.9 or thereabouts.
I am guessing the lenses, being ultra zoom lenses (24-400mm FF equivalent for the Pany and 24-200mm for the Sony) will not be super wide open. And stopping down a stop or two will introduce quite some diffraction softening already. That should sharpen up quite ok though, with the right sharpening methods in PP.
For better results, with less of a diffraction resolution hit, look at the Sony RX100 III or the Canon G1-X Mark II, both with their own set of plusses and minuses of course.
Both have 2.73x crop sensors with 20.2mp (2.4 µm pixel pitch). A FF 20mp DSLR will start to lose resolution due to diffraction past f8. These 1" (no, I do not know why these sensors are called 1" when they are not 1") sensors of the FZ1000 and RX10 will start to lose resolution due to diffraction of light when you go past f2.9 or thereabouts.
I am guessing the lenses, being ultra zoom lenses (24-400mm FF equivalent for the Pany and 24-200mm for the Sony) will not be super wide open. And stopping down a stop or two will introduce quite some diffraction softening already. That should sharpen up quite ok though, with the right sharpening methods in PP.
For better results, with less of a diffraction resolution hit, look at the Sony RX100 III or the Canon G1-X Mark II, both with their own set of plusses and minuses of course.