I'd love to see Zeiss revive the Contax brand & develop a line of FF, interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras. Go retro & style it like a G1 or 2, or an RTS. Use a wide mount a la Nikon Z, but add a couple of mm to the diameter so another body could take a larger sensor (think Hasselblad X system/Fujifilm GFX etc.) and still use the same lenses.

@yidong5567

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. Why don’t they sell the camera at 5k without the lens, and bring back 45mm f2, 28mm, f2.8, and some of their zm lenses onto it. They will have a huge edge over leica since they simply don’t have the economy of scale to compete with Sony, Fuji, canon, and Nikon anyway

Once again Hugh, a cogent, well thought out, exceptional analysis of the photographic experience from hardware to UX as well as placing a camera in a wider cultural/product design context. This is what sets your channel apart from so many talking heads. As always much appreciated.

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

So appreciate your encouragement!

Your presentation of this product, from verbal details to video and audio quality is nothing less than phenomenal.

@3BMEP

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻😊🖖🏻

Wow, and double wow ! I just found this camera on a sale, and was really curious about it. But, when you mention the way you work, that was the moment I wanted to say just DITTO! I work just the same as you do. My fun is with the camera, with my soul and may be later, sharing some of those photos with groups of interest or insta. Ipad-&13 " macbook pro, and 27 inch Imac as well hehehe, And I don't edit all , I love editing in detail slowly choosing what I really loved. Thank you from Uruguay for a wonderful vlog! Best wishes!!!

I love the idea of this camera, but, for me, it lacks the sex appeal of the Q2 and it feels unfinished... I hope Zeiss does get to evolve this through a couple of iterations.

Brilliant analysis

Once again an analysis under the microscope! Hugh style. Thanks sir

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

😊🙏🏻🖖🏻

It was obvious from the beginning that the ZX1 is more of a showpiece for the company rather than a serious attempt to enter the camera market

Brilliant narration as usual.

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻😊🖖🏻

I like the concept of making a photo and having it automatically synced on the cloud. Furthermore I could see the usefulness of being able to share it almost directly, which to me is a big benefit of smart phones. I hope we can see these features come to other camera brands.

Mr. Hugh Brownstone being one of the few (fewer than few actually) real connoisseurs in youtube and Social Media in general expresses in the most formidable and appropriate way the view of the "Naked King". Nevertheless it seems that Yongnuo had already seen the backstage of "the play" some years earlier in a deja vu ...format.

Smart, precise, level - headed. But, what else is new?! Brilliant analysis once again! Thank you

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

There's one hell of an actor lost on you, love it.

When I first saw the camera with those yellow dial markings, I thought this isn’t going to go well. Excellent video Hugh.

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻😊

@Dianathesiamesecat

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍😍😻

I get my satisfaction with my Nikon F3 do not overheat and its a proper camera ✌️✌️✌️😂😂😂😂

@VariTimo

3 жыл бұрын

Same with my Leica M5.

Couldn't agree more, on all counts.

It would be interesting to see a comparison with the Q2 in 35mm crop mode yielding a 30mp image compared to the ZX1. As always great analysis and review Hugh

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it would. I no longer have the Q2 loaner in house.

The outstanding industrial design is what creates the joy of taking it in the hands. If somebody created such a beautiful camera with the lovely Zeiss image qualitiy at a reasonable price and strips off the rest I as a enthusiast would buy it. Instead they target the iphone users who will stick to their smart phones which are more than sufficient for quick online content. What a waste.

Now just imagine this camera with built-in Ai generative fill 😮and a Zeiss wide angle, macro and telephoto adapter.

Ooo, there’s a film camera in the lineup. Are we gonna get a story about that MP/M-A, Hugh?

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

MAYBE. 😎

@---us7qf

3 жыл бұрын

That Leica M-A; the thought of owning one has me in "Pavlovian dog mode." 🤤

A professional camera which feeds the churn. As inevitable as it is irrelevant. Nice review.

ZEISSSAURUS REX (ZX1): 37MP-sensor (not 61 MP from 2019) from early 2012 (Nikon D800); back screen resolution (HD, not FHD) from 2011 (when the Samsung Galaxy SII HD, announced in Q3/2011, got the first HD-resolution smartphone screen); Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Processor (announced Dec. 2015, first phones Q1/2016 - almost pre-historic in silicon tech terms...).

I am and was a Zeiss fan boy. Their ZM lenses are my favorite ever. I SO wanted this camera. Sadness. Question: have you ever done a video on your editing workflow? Is the iPad only for use on the road? Inquiring minds want to know.

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

The iPad file system remains awkward, Chris, so I usually end up using my M1 MacBook Pro for on the road editing. Have never done a vid on my editing.

An M10-D competitor with no screen that could utilize the innards of the ZX1 and their existing ZM line of lenses would be very nice indeed. It would have that nostalgic, tactility that people seem to be attracted too while not having to add extensive R&D to a new camera. Zeiss has always been premium but not Leica premium so whatever they do it has to come in half way between the mass market price points and Leica. Once they go higher they'll loose people. I was really looking forward to the ZX1 but I had to pass on it once released.

Hugh, your videos are like a fine wine. Something to be savoured. All I want to know is, were you this cool when you were 12…?

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

Hah!

Amazing images when I tried in the shop but the camera is slow to turn on and not having an SD card was a killer for me. I don't want to edit my images on a small screen... there is no joy in that.

I desperately want to convince myself to buy it, help me please :-) seriously I wonder how much space lightroom lite takes up, how does it cope with heavy image editing does this process slow it down. I much prefer to edit on my workstation pc rather then on a camera except when when working with the fun fuji instant cameras. I don't care about having millions of function buttons, I hope they make new iterations of this camera and think more sensibly about the price. Great review again :-)

That Instagram announcement really is a thorn in Zeiss’s side. Oof. Not the only problem, but oof.

Lightroom on a camera monitor. How cute. ☺️

Now i see a Zeiss camera, for the first time! Very interesting! Yes, it's simple but when you turn on the screen it reveals all these features! Neat! Funnily, we just did a vid on a cellphone!,..with a whopping 48MP Zeiss lens!!!! ..go figure..(it's in our playlist; new products), Hugh, at the 18:00 mark in your video, it's all integrating i think! Phones, cameras, connectivity, the whole thing! Manufacturers are definitely getting together more to put together better products to serve people's needs.

A digital Ikon, please and thank you! 🙏

totally authoritative here Hugh.

@3BMEP

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻🖖🏻

M11 - only a few more looooooonnnnnnggggggg months to go until 11:11:21

Hold this thought... Why not a simple, basic, M-mount, digital IKON??? 🥺 love your take on this one Hugh 👍🏼

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

GREAT IDEA! Bundled with a specially priced ZM lens!

I have the feeling that Leica have already eaten their breakfast - there really isn't enough space for two cameras chasing this marketplace - just ask Sony....

@oliverlison

3 жыл бұрын

Zeiss is not Sony. Zeiss has been connected to photography and should have the potential to attract more customers if they play they cards right. Unfortunately, photography is not very interesting for Zeiss anymore since they don't produce new ZM lenses or come up with lenses for the Z or RF mount. I love the Zeiss (classic and Milvus) lenses. They work for me. This camera however should have come with interchangeable lenses. Also this camera should not have been made in China. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth because people associate ZEISS with premium and artistic locations - at least I do. Zeiss has sold their soul.

@michaelwhiles5282

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverlison - Strong points well made, I did not know that the new 'German' Zeiss camera is made in China - home of many excellent products but also of low cost manufacturing - at least Leica can badge their mainly Japanese products 'made in German' by completing the final build at 'home base'. Leica must be laughing so hard at Zeiss......

No, an Android based camera with Lightroom and Instagram pre-installed won’t take the place of a Q2 and Q2M shooting iPhone user. Surprisingly comfortable shooting at 28mm.

When I see the negative commentary about Sony’s A1 price, I think about cameras such as the ZX1 and the Q2. They are cameras that seem to exist in an alternative universe. Having said that, I had a Q2 and sold it to get an A1. I get the physical beauty and feeling of handling the Q2, and probably the ZX1, but the real story is about what these cameras can’t do at these price points. With that in mind, I’ll stick with the the more conservative Sony line for now.

@Jez2008UK

3 жыл бұрын

The Q2 is a camera primarily for street photography. Sounds like you aren’t a street photographer and made an incorrect purchasing decision. Sony A1 is an altogether different animal.

@keibro13

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jez2008UKThat’s not my point. That is, at the price point of these cameras, they should be more capable. Arguably, if you only shoot street photography an X100 will do the job. I shoot street photography, basketball and landscapes. Why not have a camera that does it all?

IMHO an Android-based camera needs the option to run the Google camera app (or compatible mod there of) to present a compelling proposition.

50R + 50mm pancake for me.

I was so looking forward the Z1 it seemed so much of a new concept and really appealing. Then they launched it and asked £6k for it OMG so much money for what now seems a flawed concept. I shoot with an X100V and for the price it outpaces the Z1. I can do the same said process shoot edit and share using the Fuji app directly to my Note 9 and edit and share from there. It's a real shame and I worry about its future.

Zeiss only needed to make a digital Zeiss Ikon rangefinder which uses the excellent zm optics for to make a hit in the market....

I still don't understand why a camera with the internal power.of a budget smart phone is such an unreachable goal for us at this time. It's been done once (here) and at great cost.

People who know the ASML lore know 👀

I love the concept, rather the CONCEPT !! Shouted big and loud !! And is, or perhaps was, Brilliant. But in its (belated) rush to the future they neglected the basics of the present; an instant start-up, excellent and fast autofocus, stabilisation, (either in-cam or in-lens), and … the price. I fear it may quickly become a curio. Or at very least, as this video suggests, it’s a ‘Not yet’ purchase, which somehow seems a great shame and poor reward for innovation. But during its (too) long gestation period every other image taking devices, ie phone cameras & camera cameras, evolved as such a pace as to make this camera almost redundant… A pity though. // Thanks for an very excellent, informed, intelligent and erudite review.

@3BMEP

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you!

The story of such cameras is really a sad story… in terms of all in one solution are nice but, as you said, for the target group of this cameras the ability to shoot, edit and share in one device doesn’t make so much sense. Personally, I am usually shooting without even chimp on my photos except of critical situations and used to edit afterwards for many days. As for the camera itself, my main complaint from what I have seen is the lack of the classic Zeiss character… (my Planar 1.4/50 is almost permanently mounted on my Canon for that reason). It hasn’t to do with editing. You can tell a Zeiss lens even from camera JPEGs. Here the most photos look like they have shot from a Nikon with a Sigma Art.

I am a Zeiss fan and I love their Milvus, Classic and Otus line up. With the ZX1 Zeiss is selling their soul since the camera is made in China. I was hoping Zeiss would show sentiment to their rich history and the camera would be made in an 'artist's loft' instead of a Chinese sweatshop. Everyone is comparing this camera with a Leica. It should be a similar approach but it is not. Paying $6000 for something like this is not worth it when it is made in China.

@sebala4933

Жыл бұрын

Wo bitte steht es, dass es in China hergestellt wurde, dort steht nur Assembled und das heißt zusammengebaut

A7c is the best. I wish they did a A7CR with 50 mp

@3BMEP

3 жыл бұрын

That WOULD be something!

@Chris-ey7zy

3 жыл бұрын

@@3BMEP they need to. I love A7c color science. Unlimited record time but best of all size. I just want a Higher resolution version of it

Zeiss camera will be like Sigma camera or Windows smart phone; nice but there is not much space in the market

Zeiss's 35mm film cameras were 'better' feature-wise than many Leicas but the world does not envision Zeiss as a 'camera' company....They need to do what Leica and Nikon did years back and get a number of very high-profile photographers to parade their product in public... They don't even have a really competitive position in the lens field.... Ho Hum.....

Yup lost me about three minutes in, Anyhow you have sold me totally on the Leica Q2 Monochrom, now THAT doesn't just speak to me, it screams to me!!!!!!!

just too much money. I think that it's beautiful, but I can't do it. do you remember Contax's medium format camera from 1999? Same thing here, it's just too late.

But what you gonna do if SSD fail? Is Zeiss thinks that's innovative to make soldered SSD or what? For this kind of price you'll expect from camera to work no matter SSD life-time restrictions or/and possible SSD failure. I don't mind of soldered SSD but for this price you definitely should give your customer and option to use simple SD card as well.

GFX 100s with 50mm lens while $1000 more is a better option than this camera. More resolution the ability to add lenses if you so choose and 100mp allowing you to digitally zoom if you need to.

Dead on arrival in my opinion. You must be a hard core Leica hater to prefer this camera over the Q2, which is better in EVERY aspect and CHEAPER.