The RX1 series always looked like Sony’s way of signaling that it understood photography: a large sensor and an excellent lens combined in as small a package as possible. It gives the kind of everyday, everywhere capability that film photographers love but can rarely find in digital form.
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In some respects, Sony didn’t need to refresh the RX1. And for a while there, it looked like it might not.
But the RX1R III, which arrives a decade after its predecessor, brings new AF tricks, a modern sensor and larger battery to a cult favorite.
The camera is undeniably expensive, and it looks all the more so because Sony offers so many of its components in other, much cheaper, models.
However, this is one of those occasions where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Nothing else out there offers the same combination of image quality and size.
