Pixii – Digital Rangefinder Camera
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Pixii do understand the good product design with a premium feel/lifestyle and photographers' needs. In most of the cases, they have made the right choices.
This camera may not be the ideal one for the wedding, sports, but street, travel kind of photography. This is more leaning towards the market addressed by Leica M series and some Fuji Cameras rather the market being addressed by Sony and Cannon.
As some of you may know, Leica M 11 costs around 10K USD and it doesn't have many modern still and video features that come with current mirrorless camera that costs 1/3 of its price.
Pixii being an interchangeable lens camera with Leica M mount is great thing. That means most of the great M lenses available on the market (including 2nd hand) are compatible with this. And the photographer can choose the lens with preferred focal length, quality and size of his/her own preference.
Why would anyone start a new camera company when smartphones have multiple cameras, they are good in quality(?) while they are ubiquitous? It is true that smartphone cameras have been improved a lot. But photography requires control over the variables in exposure triangle, corner to corner sharpness by larger image sensors, good optics (lenses), accurate colors etc. When Tim Cook says recent iPhone Pros can shoot films, it is only half true.
I'm a software developer who does photography as a hobby. I own Sony A7 IV. I do street photography most of the time. A pixii with a smaller 23mm lens in my pocket would be handier when I'm on the street rather holding a heavy, bigger gear and having to carry a dedicated bag.
Without lenses, the Pixii is indeed a lot smaller than the A7 IV. It's about 200g (0.44lbs) lighter and about half as "thick" from front to back. To be fair, the A7 IV "thickness" is most due to the right hand hand grip area.
I'd really love to see a gallery of comparison images taken with the Pixii vs. other similarly featured cameras.