Ricoh GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro vs Sony RX100

Its time to take a deeper look at the Ricoh GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro and Sony RX100, former is a Advanced Mirrorless while the latter is a Large Sensor Compact by companies Ricoh and Sony. There exists a large gap among the sensor resolutions of the GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro (12MP) and RX100 (20MP) and the GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro (APS-C) and RX100 (1") enjoy totally different sensor dimensions.

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The GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro was manufactured 3 years prior to the RX100 which is a fairly serious difference as far as camera technology is concerned. Each of these cameras come with different body type with the Ricoh GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro being a Rangefinder-style mirrorless camera and the Sony RX100 being a Large Sensor Compact camera.

Before we go straight into a full comparison, below is a simple summary of how the GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro grades versus the RX100 with regards to portability, imaging, features and an overall mark.

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When you are going to travel with your camera frequently, you'll need to factor in its weight and proportions. The Ricoh GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro comes with external measurements of 114mm x 70mm x 77mm (4.5" x 2.8" x 3.0") and a weight of 453 grams (1.00 lbs) and the Sony RX100 has measurements of 102mm x 58mm x 36mm (4.0" x 2.3" x 1.4") and a weight of 240 grams (0.53 lbs).

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Don't forget, the weight of an ILC will differ dependant on the lens you are working with at that time. Following is the front view overall size comparison of the GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro vs the RX100.

Factoring in dimensions and weight, the portability rating of the GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro and RX100 is 77 and 91 respectively.

Normally, its difficult to visualise the gap in sensor dimensions purely by checking out technical specs. The pic underneath should give you a clearer sense of the sensor measurements in the GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro and RX100.

As you can tell, the two cameras posses different resolutions and different sensor dimensions. The GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro because of its bigger sensor will make getting shallow DOF simpler and the Sony RX100 will provide more detail due to its extra 8 Megapixels. Higher resolution will also enable you to crop photographs somewhat more aggressively. The more aged GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro will be disadvantaged in sensor technology.