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I have a dilemma. I need to decide, and I need to decide pretty soon. I want to buy a compact for my upcoming diving trip. I have a budget of about 1000 - 1500 USD, where 1500 really would mean "I went all out". This budget must include everything, so meaning the compact cam and the underwater housing - maybe even a flash.
So after consulting the interwebs, I narrowed down my choice to just 2 cameras which is still 1 too many. But I have no idea, how to eliminate one or favour the other.
The cameras are:
Sony RX-100 (mark 1)
Canon G1X
Both cameras fit my budget. On the Canon I could get the Canon Housing - for the Sony, there's a affordable ikelite Housing. Both options would more or less total 1K (I live in Switzerland)
Now feature wise, I know that some things are more important than others, when it comes to diving pictures and/or video. Unfortunately it seems that both have very strong arguments I can't decide. Maybe some of you out there have some experience with both of them, or can put some of the features in perspective
As far as I understand, these are the features that are the most paramount for diving fotography:
- Good battery life (with 700 shots, the G1X doubles the Sony)
- Large Sensor (light is rare. And if I don't have the money to afford a whole flash system, light is vital. So Sensor size might be the most important feature? or am I mistaken?) but then again:
- Wide aperture (RX100 f/1.8 vs f/2.8 wins meaning more light?)
- BIGGIE: Macro Capability (this is the one that makes it a tie breaker. Macro photography is probably the most important for my diving and here the G1X is far behind the RX100 20cm vs 5cm)
- RX100 with double the ISO at 25,600 does that also mean more light in my pictures, when taking pics in sub 15m dives?
as a noob, I used this here to help me weed out the other cams (Canon G1X vs Sony DSC-RX100 - Our Analysis)
Until recently it was G15 vs G1X, but now that I've seen the RX100, I think it is just between the G1X and the Sony.
The Sony seems the first choice but how much more awesome would pictures be with the G1X, in non-macro situation? how much more would the G1X with it's sensor excell?
Or do I overrate the sensor for my situation? I also thought G1X + Housing + Macro Lense but that would mean the expensive G1X non-Canon Housing + Lense = very expensive. With the sony I could go for the ikelite housing plus a cheap strobe setup, with the motto: better than nothing. For example the Fantasea Nano Storbe at 100 Bucks, or the Intova ISS2000 ISTR Slave strobe around 130USD.
Would love some input from you guys! I'm stuck!
thanks
(I crossposted this on canonrumors as well)
I have a dilemma. I need to decide, and I need to decide pretty soon. I want to buy a compact for my upcoming diving trip. I have a budget of about 1000 - 1500 USD, where 1500 really would mean "I went all out". This budget must include everything, so meaning the compact cam and the underwater housing - maybe even a flash.
So after consulting the interwebs, I narrowed down my choice to just 2 cameras which is still 1 too many. But I have no idea, how to eliminate one or favour the other.
The cameras are:
Sony RX-100 (mark 1)
Canon G1X
Both cameras fit my budget. On the Canon I could get the Canon Housing - for the Sony, there's a affordable ikelite Housing. Both options would more or less total 1K (I live in Switzerland)
Now feature wise, I know that some things are more important than others, when it comes to diving pictures and/or video. Unfortunately it seems that both have very strong arguments I can't decide. Maybe some of you out there have some experience with both of them, or can put some of the features in perspective
As far as I understand, these are the features that are the most paramount for diving fotography:
- Good battery life (with 700 shots, the G1X doubles the Sony)
- Large Sensor (light is rare. And if I don't have the money to afford a whole flash system, light is vital. So Sensor size might be the most important feature? or am I mistaken?) but then again:
- Wide aperture (RX100 f/1.8 vs f/2.8 wins meaning more light?)
- BIGGIE: Macro Capability (this is the one that makes it a tie breaker. Macro photography is probably the most important for my diving and here the G1X is far behind the RX100 20cm vs 5cm)
- RX100 with double the ISO at 25,600 does that also mean more light in my pictures, when taking pics in sub 15m dives?
as a noob, I used this here to help me weed out the other cams (Canon G1X vs Sony DSC-RX100 - Our Analysis)
Until recently it was G15 vs G1X, but now that I've seen the RX100, I think it is just between the G1X and the Sony.
The Sony seems the first choice but how much more awesome would pictures be with the G1X, in non-macro situation? how much more would the G1X with it's sensor excell?
Or do I overrate the sensor for my situation? I also thought G1X + Housing + Macro Lense but that would mean the expensive G1X non-Canon Housing + Lense = very expensive. With the sony I could go for the ikelite housing plus a cheap strobe setup, with the motto: better than nothing. For example the Fantasea Nano Storbe at 100 Bucks, or the Intova ISS2000 ISTR Slave strobe around 130USD.
Would love some input from you guys! I'm stuck!
thanks
(I crossposted this on canonrumors as well)