Can you stand this "moral poison"? Depth evaluation of 37.4 megapixel street sweeping artifact Zeiss ZX 1

Sharp tools for sweeping streets often need to be portable, quick in response and accurate in focus. If high-quality pictures are achieved at the same time, it will be "really fragrant". Zeiss ZX 1 is petite, light in weight, smooth in appearance and intuitive to carry. So what is the comprehensive performance of such a camera? Let's take a look at it through the in-depth evaluation of the technology video evaluation room.

Zeiss, this name is familiar to many experienced photographers. From the establishment of 1846 to the appearance of 1902 "Hawkeye", and then to the appearance of ZM, Otis, Classic, Milvus, Batis, Loxia and Touit series, the scale of each series of products has been continuously expanded, and Zeiss lenses have been adapted to many mainstream and high-end brands of cameras.

Simple design, smooth lines, beautiful lines.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to interpret a camera through parameters. Next, let's focus on the Zeiss ZX 1 itself, and look at the details of this camera from the perspective of appearance.

Zeiss ZX 1 is a Quan Huafu mirrorless camera with integrated design of body and lens, which is wrapped in a matte black metal shell with simple appearance and smooth lines. The front design of the fuselage is clean, tidy and low-key. If you have a quick look at the blue "Zeiss" sign in the upper right corner, I believe many people will not believe that this is an expensive camera.

As can be seen from the design details of the camera appearance, Zeiss ZX 1 is made up of several metal modules, with seamless seams and smooth metal surface, as if it had been carefully polished. The outer side of the handle on the left side of the lens is wrapped with glue, which is comfortable to hold and can effectively avoid slipping from the hand, or the metal body is too hot in summer and too cold in winter, which reflects the ingenuity of manufacturers and designers in building products.

As can be seen from the marked parameters, Zeiss ZX 1 is equipped with Zeiss Distagon lens with an aperture of 52mm and a focal length of 35mm, with T* coating, and the maximum aperture can reach f/2. From the configuration point of view, Distagon lens has excellent edge deformation resistance, excellent image resolution in the central area, "T*" brings excellent ghost and glare suppression effect, and the super luminous flux brought by 52 mm aperture can restore the real shooting scene. At the same time, the 35 mm focal length close to the visual effect can be completely suitable for shooting scenes such as scenery, architecture, humanities and portraits.

Zeiss ZX 1 The back of the fuselage is equipped with an integral 4.3-inch TFT LCD liquid crystal display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, which supports multi-touch. It is particularly worth mentioning that a scratch-proof glass cover with an anti-fingerprint layer is designed on the outside of the screen, so users don't have to worry about leaving fingerprints after touching the screen with their fingers, which will hinder the subject.

The top of the screen is equipped with a 0.7-inch organic light-emitting diode electronic viewfinder with a resolution of 1920x 1080 pixels. Visually, the viewfinder has a better visual effect. For those who like to view with the viewfinder, it is recommended to use the viewfinder to check the subject first. There is a diopter adjustment dial wheel on the left side of the viewfinder, and there is no clear concept of gear position. In terms of operating feel, it takes a little effort to operate the thumbwheel, and the function key on the right side of the viewfinder also needs to be pressed hard to trigger, which can effectively prevent misoperation.

Different from most cameras, the top design of Zeiss ZX 1 is simple, except that the shutter button is designed at the front of the handle, and the shutter and ISO impeller are designed at the right side of the hot shoe. The power button is designed as a module integrated with the shutter impeller. Press the power button up to the top to switch on, wake up, take photos, record and other functions, and press it down to the bottom to realize standby and shutdown. Feel, shutter, ISO dial can feel clear gear change, feel light and easy to operate.

As for the external interface, Zeiss ZX 1 only reserved the Type-C interface at the bottom of the left viewing angle, which can be used for data transmission and charging, and the design is simple.

The battery compartment of Zeiss ZX 1 is designed at the bottom handle of the fuselage. When you open the handle, you can find that the battery compartment adopts double lock design, which can avoid the embarrassment that the battery slips and is lost after opening the battery compartment.

In terms of lens, Zeiss ZX 1 adopts the design of double impellers. The user can adjust the aperture through the dial wheel close to the body, and the dial wheel far away from the lens can adjust the focal length in manual focusing mode. In terms of hand feeling, both thumbwheels are designed with rubber rings, which have great resistance when poking. You can increase the resistance with your fingers to avoid misoperation. At the same time, turning the aperture dial wheel will have obvious shift feeling and solid hand feeling; When the focus wheel rotates, it will feel smoother and operate comfortably.

On the side of the lens, we can find the auto focus/manual focus switch button. Users who like to use autofocus mode can just dial "AF". On the positive side, the dialing key is located in an area that is not easy to touch, and it is not easy to cause misoperation.

Break through the exposure limit and achieve outstanding results in low light environment.

Judging from the detailed design of the appearance, the unique design of Zeiss ZX 1 is actually remarkable. In the process of sweeping the street, what impressed the appraiser was actually the picture presentation of the camera. Zeiss ZX 1 is especially outstanding in weak light and strong light. Next, let's learn more about this product and its imaging effect through the sample.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/8; Shutter:1166s

The images taken by Zeiss ZX 1 have a unique flavor, rich in color, delicate and not greasy.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2; Shutter: 1/228s

In addition, the warm and dark tonality makes the photos have an inexplicable sense of high-level, which shows that Zeiss ZX 1 truly inherits the "moral taste" with Zeiss characteristics.

Sensitivity: ISO-400；; ; Aperture: f/7.1; Shutter:1125s

Next, let's deeply interpret the lens performance of Zeiss ZX 1 through a set of photos. In the above article, we mentioned that the camera adopts 35 mm fixed focus lens equipped with Distagon series. From the performance of the picture, the picture retains the unique scene sense of wide angle, and the edge has no obvious deformation, which shows that the wide-angle lens has excellent distortion control ability.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/5; Shutter: 1/683s

Zeiss ZX 1 has its own bright spot in dealing with dark corners, which is superior to other German lenses. As can be seen from the above photo, the four corners of the photo are not obviously darkened, which also means that this Zeiss ZX 1 has excellent dark corner suppression ability, which can greatly reduce the difficulty of post-production of photos and easily restore the real shooting scene.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2; Shutter: 1/70s

When the depth of field effect is presented, the focus of Zeiss ZX 1 shooting picture is like a knife, and it is out of focus. This kind of picture performance can not only highlight the theme of the picture, but also bring richer background details to humanistic photography, making the photo more story-telling and readable.

Sensitivity: ISO-1600; Aperture: f/2.2; Shutter:1125s

In addition, the coating of "T*" brings a soft halo effect to the photo. Different from the labeled "T*" lens we often see, the night scene of Zeiss ZX 1 is more realistic. Except for the even and soft halo at the edge of the light, there is no overall whitening or glare or ghost in the photo, and the night scene is prominent.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2; Shutter: 1/323s

If the pictures brought by Zeiss lens are as wonderful as ever, then the image processing of Zeiss ZX 1 fuselage is amazing. In terms of picture fineness, Zeiss ZX 1 with original Zeiss lens and 37.4 effective pixel CMOS performed well.

The above picture is enlarged to 500% effect.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/8; Shutter:1125s

In terms of picture performance, Zeiss ZX 1 color temperature control is accurate, and there is no problem of overflow or lack of expressiveness in cold and warm colors, and the color control ability is excellent. In addition to the "what you see is what you get" scene, it will bring a better sense of substitution, and the picture presented in primary colors is also conducive to post-production. Users can present artistic and creative effects by adjusting the tone of photos later.

Sensitivity: ISO-1600; Aperture: f/2; Shutter:1125s

The above picture magnifies the local effect.

We greatly enlarged the local area of the above picture and found that the noise particles in the pictures taken by Zeiss ZX 1 were small. With the unique black-and-white noise form of German cameras, it will bring a delicate feeling to the picture and optimize the visual experience.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/10; Shutter: 1/664s

Of course, in addition to improving ISO, Zeiss ZX 1 also provides another solution for photographers in low light shooting environment. Unlike most Japanese cameras, which require higher exposure parameters, the photos taken by Zeiss ZX 1 under severe underexposure and overexposure still have high plasticity. The above picture shows the silhouette effect we shot in RAW mode.

The picture above highlights the picture effect after the fifth gear.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2.2; Shutter: 1/609s

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2; Shutter: 1/209s

Judging from the picture performance, Zeiss ZX 1 has a pure German camera. Sharp creamy picture, bright and warm tone, accurate color and color temperature control, expressive color and great tolerance for exposure parameters make this camera fully capable of dealing with the complex shooting environment of sweeping the street and bring excellent picture effects.

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/4; Shutter:1180s

For friends who want to take portraits, elegant picture style will bring a sense of advanced, but also bring more open space for photos, which is conducive to the secondary creation of images.

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In terms of video, with the increasing demand for short video production in recent years, Zeiss ZX 1 will support 4K video shooting. The same excellent picture effect and 35 mm lens suitable for multi-field shooting will bring more shooting possibilities with the tripod.

It comes with Lr and large memory operation, which is quite creative.

In terms of fuselage control, Zeiss ZX 1 is equipped with Android system and adopts pure touch screen control mode to meet the needs of users who like to use touch operation.

In addition, the camera is equipped with Adobe Lightroom. After registration, the buyer can enjoy the free use right of 1 year. After logging into Adobe Lightroom, we can see that Zeiss ZX 1 is equipped with the main functions of the PC version.

In terms of design, the Android version of Adobe Lightroom adopts a touch screen design, which makes post-photo production more convenient.

In addition, in terms of storage, the camera has a built-in 5 12G solid-state hard disk for users to shoot and save instantly. Of course, users can also upload pictures to Baidu's network disk through the network and share the photographed pictures in real time. However, like Adobe Lightroom, users can use this function normally through their own accounts.

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Zeiss ZX 1 is petite and concise. As a big factory in the camera industry, its excellent picture effect is enough to witness its comprehensive strength. From the perspective of picture presentation, sharp, milky, bright, warm, dark and cold picture effects bring a unique "taste" to it, and with the elegant picture style and the characteristics of not being afraid of low light environment, it becomes a high-quality street sweeping artifact.