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Image Quality Summary
As noted earlier, we can't share photos from the Sony DSC-R1 with you yet, but have put it through its paces pretty well. The results were fairly impressive, summarized below.
Color Rendering: Additive primaries (red, green, blue) are somewhat oversaturated, even in "Standard" color mode, but the net result is very pleasing. Skin tones look good, and the images overall have a vibrant, appealing look.
White Balance: Generally quite good, although (as is almost always the case with the digital cameras we test), the Auto mode just wasn't up to handling household incandescent lighting, a very common light source here in the US. Manual mode did just fine with it, and under most other light sources, the white balance was for the most part right on.
Tonality: Beautiful! As we shot with the R1, we remarked on numerous occasions just now nice its images looked. It's the sort of thing that's very hard to define, and that doesn't come out at all in laboratory test shots, but Shawn phrased it best when he said "This camera just likes light." Its images have a beautiful tonality that give them a mixture of liveliness and delicacy. Luscious.
Resolution: 1,550 lines per picture height vertically, 1,650 lines horizontally. (Very good)
Sharpness and Detail: Default in-camera sharpening is a little heavy-handed. Images look crisp when viewed at lower magnifications or when printed at modest sizes (say up to 11x14), but closer inspection reveals oversharpening and halos around high-contrast edges. The reduced sharpness setting gives better results with post-capture sharpening in Adobe Photoshop(tm) or other image processing applications.
High-ISO Image Noise: Better than any previous all-in-one digital cameras, not as good as the best current d-SLRs though. Images are very usable for fairly large prints up to ISO 800. ISO 1600 starts to get a little rough, ISO 3200 is unusable for anything but snapshots
Geometric Distortion: About average barrel distortion of 0.8% at wide angle, zero pincushion at telephoto.
Chromatic Aberration and Corner Sharpness: Both excellent, detectable levels of CA, but much better than average. Softness in the corners of the frame is very slight, doesn't extend far at all into the image.
The Bottom Line
You'll have to take our word for it until we can show you some sample images, but the Sony DSC-R1 is a very compelling entry in the high-end "enthusiast" category. It offers an absolutely unique focal length range, with very high optical quality, attractive color, and very appealing tonality in its images. We found some of its ergonomics decidedly awkward, and both timing performance and high-ISO noise levels aren't up to the best of the digital SLRs currently on the market. As such, it's clearly not an SLR-killer, nor does it seem intended to be. (Sony after all has announced plans to develop their own line of digital SLRs, in cooperation with Konica Minolta.) If you can live within its 24-120mm effective focal length range though, the combination of lens and camera can't be equalled for less than twice its selling price of $999. US availability is slated for November 20 of this year, so Sony fans (and others looking for a lot of camera for the price) should saving their pennies. (This camera will almost certainly be a Dave's Pick, we're just holding off on posting it in that list until we complete our full review.)
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Performance Timing
On the timing front, the Sony R1 was a little disappointing relative to current digital SLRs, but very respectable when compared to other all-in-one prosumer cameras. Here's a detailed list of our findings in this area:
Sony DSC-R1 Timings
Operation Time
(secs) Notes
Power On -> First shot 1.6 Average for its class, slower than most d-SLRs.
Shutdown 0.1 - 16 First time is simple shutdown, second time is worst-case buffer-clearing time. Worst-case time is on the slow side, corresponds to clearing two RAW+JPEG images. Buffer clears in 6 seconds after forty large/fine JPEGs in single-shot mode.
Play to Record, first shot 0.1 Time until first shot is captured. Almost immediate.
Record to play 3.0 / 0.8 First time is that required to display a large/fine file immediately after capture, second time is that needed to display a large/fine file that has already been processed and stored on the memory card. First time is a little slow.
Shutter lag, full autofocus
("Framing" viewfinder mode) 0.76 / 0.77 First time is at full wide-angle, second is full telephoto. These times measured with the LCD monitor in "Framing" mode, which gives a noticeably faster refresh, but doesn't allow previewing depth of field or flicker reduction for fluorescent lighting. Only average for "prosumer" cameras, quite a bit slower than most d-SLRs.
Shutter lag, full autofocus
("Preview" viewfinder mode) 0.48 / 0.74 First time is at full wide-angle, second is full telephoto. These times measured in "Preview" mode, which gives slower LCD/EVF refresh, but faster shutter lag and cycle times.
Shutter lag, continuous autofocus, wide angle zoom setting
0.71 / 0.33 These times are for "Monitor" autofocus mode. First time is for LCD/EVF in Framing mode, second is for Preview mode. First time is still fairly sluggish, second time is quite fast.
Shutter lag, flash enabled 0.53 Time is for Preview viewfinder mode, lens at wide angle focal length, single-shot autofocus. Very slightly slower than best times without the flash, nice that there appears to be very little shutter lag penalty for using the flash.
Shutter lag, manual focus 0.042 Very fast. (!) Only Preview viewfinder mode is available when manually focusing.
Shutter lag, prefocus 0.007 Time to capture, after half-pressing shutter button. Extremely fast.
Cycle Time, RAW + max jpg resolution 2.12 / 1.37
Times are averages. Shoots 2 frames this fast, then slows. First time is for Framing viewfinder mode, second is for Preview. Both are on the slow side, particularly relative to d-SLRs. After buffer is full, slows to about 8.7 seconds per shot with a Lexar 80x CF card, about 6.1 seconds with a Memory Stick Pro. Overall, not too bad, but not wonderful either, and two-shot buffer capacity is very limiting.
Cycle Time, max / min resolution, Framing viewfinder mode 1.66 / 1.91
First number is for large/fine files, second number is time for small/normal files. Times are averages. In both modes, shoots this fast seemingly indefinitely. In large/fine mode, the buffer takes 6 seconds to clear after 40 frames. In small/normal mode, the buffer clears after each shot. (Buffer clearing times measured with a Lexar 80x CF card. Slower cards are likely to take longer to clear.) Not bad, considering it can seemingly shoot at this rate all day, but the shot to shot time is again quite slow compared to the d-SLRs the R1 will be competing with.
Cycle Time, max JPEG resolution, Preview viewfinder mode 1.27 Here again, much faster in Preview viewfinder mode. Also, Preview mode avoids the "pre-press penalty" of Framing mode. (In this mode, if you release and press the shutter button immediately after the previous shot, the camera will snap the next picture as soon as it's able.) Shoots this fast for eleven shots, then slows to 1.76 seconds/shot with a Lexar 80x CF card. Slower cards may produce slower cycle times after buffer fill. (We didn't test this mode with a Memory Stick.) Buffer empties in just over a second after the last shot, regardless of how many shots captured.
Cycle Time, Flash exposures 6 Flash at maximum power output. About average. Would be unimpressive, but the R1's flash is pretty high power (has excellent range), so some allowance must be made for just how much energy is being loaded back onto the flash capacitor after a full-power pulse.
Cycle Time, continuous mode, max/min resolution 0.31 / 0.32
(3.23 / 3.17 fps) First number is for large/fine files, second number is time for small/normal files. Times are averages. Shoots 3 frames this fast in large/fine mode, then shoots pairs of shots with about 3.5 second pauses between groups. In small/normal mode, shoots groups of three frames with about 3.7 second pauses between groups. Three frames/second isn't a bad rate, but a three-frame limit is surprising in a camera at the R1's price point. (Again, typical d-SLRs do much better.)
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