Tag: sony

Sony Digital Camera ZV-1 … or is it a ZV-1? (WHL #122)

PSA: If you buy a Sony ZV-1: Make sure it IS a ZV-1!

Sooo…in preparation for a little trip, and because my Sony RX100M2 is getting old (not in terms of specs, but more on the wear-and-tear side of things), I somewhat recently had a look for alternatives, focussed on the portrait video captures that I do in my car while playing Beach Buggy racing.

The RX100 line of cameras isn’t a straight path in terms of more betterer™, it’s more of a twisty road. My M2 for example is a bit of an oddball with a multifunction hotshoe, the newer ones don’t have that anymore. […]

20th September 2026 21st September 2026 By Bzzz In No Comment

airnef and the Sony ILCE6100 (α6100) (WHL #120)

I’ve been thinking about a slight upgrade to my main camera, the Sony RX100M2. I got it quite a while ago, *checks blog post history*, in early 2019, and since it is a compact camera, it hasn’t been modified, despite the wide variety of tasks that I threw at it. It’s still decent for most jobs, it works most of the time (sometimes you gotta slap it back into action when the sensor reads garbage, and the mode wheel has been acting up lately), but e.g. on my 2 week trip to Xinzo de Limia, I thought about a backup device in case something happens, for whatever cause/reason. […]

28th June 2026 29th June 2026 By Bzzz In No Comment

3.5″ Floppy disk drive benchmarking (WHL #57)

Yeah, you read that right. Time for some serious benchmarking of good old floppy drives. The type of benchmark that the interwebs have been waiting for.

In case you’re questioning my mental health right now: Nope, not affected by COVID-19 or the “quarantine” (that only keeps me from delivering a 2U server and causes people to act strange in the supermarkets). I’ve gone mad quite a long time ago. Probably a glitch during assembly.

Now, I got four bad boys here, revving their, umm, stepper drives?
Alps Electric DF354H(121G), 33wk 2007 – full size 3.5″ drive (5V 1000mA)
IBM FRU 06P5223 ASM 08K9835, Feb 2004, USB drive (5V 500mA)
Sony MPF820, Dec 2005, Slim drive (5V 750mA)
Teac FD-05HF, May (?) […]

12th April 2020 13th April 2020 By Bzzz In No Comment

Sony to the rescue! (#E9)

I’m back, with more pixel power than ever ;)

After a bit of research in addition to the thoughts back when I bought my very first dedicated camera, I decided to go the Sony route. Sony RX100, to be specific. There are three models that fall in my price bracket for “new camera without being able to sell the old one”, that is the original RX100, the RX100M2 and the reasonably different RX100M3. There’s a very handy feature comparison over at Reisezoom which also adds data to the newer RX100 models, so before regurgitating everything for the interested folks, please pay them a visit. […]

2nd March 2019 2nd March 2019 By Bzzz In No Comment