Hi, Sorry,
I was concentrating on 2 things at once when I was typing before.
You’re right - it was counter-intuitive to what you would think. The API 1 is better, like you say, and it was API 2 that caused the images to go unusably pale.
I remember now.
I like the idea of decentralising smartphones back into dedicated devices. There’s quite a trend around that at the moment, where people will have a normal phone, a tablet, a dedicated camera and a separate MP3 player. youtube serves up a lot of videos around that because there is a definite distrust and antipathy that people have to these new smartphones now.
Sony make an excellent camera, partly because their camera division is inherited from Minolta.
I understand that the alpha series lenses fit the dynax cameras and vice-versa.
But I have a very young daughter and having a large, heavy and expensive camera, which you want to be a long-term investment around small children has a chance of being an expensive decision.
For all its limitations in the modern day, the old 950 takes a very dramatic and atmospheric picture nomatter what you point it at.
The xperia 10 III camera turned out a lot of beautiful images, but somehow, they all ‘felt’ the same.
They all had this glossy, polished and slightly sterile quality.
They didn’t feel natural somehow.
It was like looking at a woman wearing too much make-up - like they were all airbrushed.