I find it very beautiful. The all-in-one principle compromises it since malfunction of one area could spell doom - pricey doom. An alternative at this luxury pricepoint may be to provide a unique companion laptop/tablet - I'm sure they could work with Asus and one of the Linux groups to make something both useful and also likely to draw the attention of the tech + design press (expanding the potential market.) I'm against the licenced software etc - associating with big predatory companies damages Zeiss and compromises the utility of the device. Capture One maybe - or better yet work with an open or demi-open project. If they ever make an M-mount, MFT, or cheaper cameras I'd be very interested.
This isn’t the camera for me, which doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t work for someone else. Like Gareth, I am inclined to edit on my computer, so built in editing software isn’t a big selling point. I have a Fuji x100v which, while not full frame, has features that the Zeiss doesn’t (eye detect autofocus, weather sealing, more manual controls) and is a quarter of the price. Even the Leica Q2 is cheaper if you’re okay with 28mm and it has higher resolution.
Avant-garde, its beautiful, an object of desire! It would be cool to shooting in JPEG, them in Lightroom, croping and sending out! Getting into the camera business Zeiss may have "made a splash" if they had made a Medium Format camera with 3 or 4 prime lenses. Who would buy the ZX1 instead of a Sony RX? With no pedigree, this camera was over priced when announced and very much so today!
I fully agree with you. What's the point of buying such and expensive camera with 37MP sensor so that I can edit and post to Instagram? Indeed, try editing a photo in bright daylight and you'll be challenged in getting the colour balance/temperature, saturation, etc etc right. It's totally impossible to view an image on such a tiny screen to edit an image. Total fail to me.
thanks for job!
I really just want cameras to speak effectively to mobile devices.
New zeiss camera zx1 with useful built in features thanks park cameras
I find it very beautiful. The all-in-one principle compromises it since malfunction of one area could spell doom - pricey doom. An alternative at this luxury pricepoint may be to provide a unique companion laptop/tablet - I'm sure they could work with Asus and one of the Linux groups to make something both useful and also likely to draw the attention of the tech + design press (expanding the potential market.)
I'm against the licenced software etc - associating with big predatory companies damages Zeiss and compromises the utility of the device. Capture One maybe - or better yet work with an open or demi-open project.
If they ever make an M-mount, MFT, or cheaper cameras I'd be very interested.
This isn’t the camera for me, which doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t work for someone else. Like Gareth, I am inclined to edit on my computer, so built in editing software isn’t a big selling point. I have a Fuji x100v which, while not full frame, has features that the Zeiss doesn’t (eye detect autofocus, weather sealing, more manual controls) and is a quarter of the price. Even the Leica Q2 is cheaper if you’re okay with 28mm and it has higher resolution.
One part of my brain: this camera is worse than analogues. Another part of my brain: buy it!
Avant-garde, its beautiful, an object of desire! It would be cool to shooting in JPEG, them in Lightroom, croping and sending out! Getting into the camera business Zeiss may have "made a splash" if they had made a Medium Format camera with 3 or 4 prime lenses. Who would buy the ZX1 instead of a Sony RX? With no pedigree, this camera was over priced when announced and very much so today!
Good review but the camera looks a right faff unless you've got childs hands
Great video… just picked up one 3500 US dollars…
I fully agree with you. What's the point of buying such and expensive camera with 37MP sensor so that I can edit and post to Instagram? Indeed, try editing a photo in bright daylight and you'll be challenged in getting the colour balance/temperature, saturation, etc etc right. It's totally impossible to view an image on such a tiny screen to edit an image. Total fail to me.
The German manufacturers are taking the mickey out of us poor photographers.
Fuji Instax Mini has a shot edit share concept for much less...6k for sharing content online??? Zeiss is joking
Another expensive camera that really hasn’t thought about the market. Don’t think it would even be a bargain at £1700.
It feels that this camera can do a lot of things in mediocrity and manage to be overpriced. 👎