If you happen to’ve been testing the finest rangefinder cameras in the marketplace, and you have been on the lookout for one thing that is not a Leica, I am positive you may need come throughout the identify Pixii.
Properly, the French digicam firm occurs to have probably the most ‘fashionable’ rangefinders in the marketplace. They work on an OTA (over the air) replace schedule, which is at all times bettering the cameras’ options comparable to viewfinder shows and shutter timings, and naturally making upgrades to Pixii’s digital app.
Properly, Pixii is about to launch a brand new digicam tomorrow and the web has gone wild speculating what this new digicam might seem like and what might be inside it.
However relatively than telling you what might be, so late on the rumor cycle, I need to inform you what I need to see from Pixii as an current Leica M-system person. So consider this as my dream want listing for the brand new Pixii digicam…
(Picture credit score: Pixii SAS)
Larger sensor
I perceive why Pixii Digicam took the APS-C path to get the corporate up and operating, as it’s a extra economical sensor to construct round whilst you’re creating a digicam system from the bottom up. Nevertheless, I need to see a full-frame sensor inside a Pixii Digicam.
Whereas I am not that fussed about its megapixels (24MP can be greater than sufficient), I feel it is about time that the fourth digicam launched by the corporate is full-frame. This manner it is a good various to Leica cameras, and a complete lot cheaper, too (if a $3,000 digicam could be referred to as “low-cost”!).
Only one reminiscence choice
The present Pixii ethos is to come back out with a brand new digicam and have varied choices for built-in reminiscence, from 32GB as much as 128GB. I feel it ought to simply go together with the 128GB choice and make issues less complicated for the top person.
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Leica has 256GB of built-in reminiscence on the Leica M11-P, so if Pixii opted for 128GB it would not “overpower” Leica however would give customers a extra strong and inexpensive choice.
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Constructed-in viewfinder magnification
Whereas utilizing lenses comparable to a 35mm, or 50mm the focusing match is kind of simple to make use of. Nevertheless, relating to wider lenses (from 21-28mm) or longer lenses (from 90-135mm) it turns into a extra tough ordeal.
Pixii considered this, and added as much as 1.5x magnification eyepieces to its vary. However for an organization that does all its updates OTA, with out the necessity for SD playing cards, I’d like to see built-in magnification so you possibly can verify on-the-fly that you’ve essential focus earlier than urgent that shutter button.
Promote the {hardware} upgrades
Whereas this is not actually a function, Pixii is kind of superior in some improve choices for its customers. And whereas I’ve already talked about the corporate’s OTA firmware updates, I have never talked about its {hardware} improve choice – which implies that any person who owns an older Pixii mannequin has the selection to improve to the most recent digicam from Pixii.
This consists of the corporate bringing out a brand new sensor, for example. As an alternative of shopping for a model new digicam, you possibly can simply purchase a brand new sensor and Pixii will match within the new elements for you – saving you a heap in your preliminary funding. It simply wants to essentially shout this from the rooftops, as I feel it is a very neat function!
