Jenkins

The aforementioned stationary section housed (primarily) in a beautiful antique desk. I can only pause here momentarily or else I make bad financial decisions. Every item on (and in) this desk needs to come home with me. I’m happy with these images — the depth of field is what I was aiming for, colors are beautifully rendered. The RX1R is popping off, queens.

Aperture priority, f/3.0 Listen. I’m a fan of a creamy bokeh in my photography and I’m not sorry about it. When I can, I’ll shoot wide open and you can’t stop me. Based on these next two shots, someone needs to try though.

Aperture priority, f/2.0 My goal was to use this beautiful mirror to show off some of J&CO’s leather goods, which I guess I kind of got that part right. But, at f/2.0, the RX1R is a bokeh monster and I totally blew out the mirror and obscured the other products sitting around it.

These are the lessons we learn on a first shoot. Around the time I visited J&CO, I had been using my Fuji X100VI pretty heavily, which uses a smaller CMOS sensor. I could have shot this image wide open on the Fuji and the mirror would have been more in focus, which is what my muscle memory told me. But muscle memory is a dirty liar — at least mine is.

The Sony RX1R uses a full frame sensor which, without going full on Bill Nye the Science Guy on you, means the sensor is capturing a whole bunch more information and more light. Shooting wide open on a full frame sensor is going to produce a noticeably shallower depth of field than shooting wide open on a CMOS sensor.

All of that to say: I should have slowed down a bit and considered my aperture more than I did here.

Shooting wide open did the trick here though.

Aperture priority, f/2.8 Everywhere you look at J&CO is simply beautiful. If I didn’t think Lisa would drag me out by my ear, I’d probably just move in.

Aperture priority, f/2.8-4.0 The photos above are mixed at best. The biggest takeaway from this shoot for me: the RX1R III is a beast on depth of field — even more so than my other full frame cameras. I should have stopped down pretty consistently in these photos but that’s why you get out and shoot, amiright?

I’m excited to get out and continue using the Sony RX1R III. Using the camera was a pleasure; it’s small and light. It tucked away into my cross body without fuss. Processing these photos, I was impressed with the image quality coming out of this little camera. Which, honestly, at $5,000, it needs to perform at this level.

I’ll be back to share more of my thoughts once I’ve had a chance to use it.

A huge thank you to Lisa at Jenkins & Co. for letting me stop in, take some photos and for sharing her beautiful space with me.