#1218. Pixii Monochrome

By pascaljappy | News

Jul 28

With this latest release, Pixii asks what makes a great monochrome camera. Here’s their answer.

As promised in my last article about the Pixii camera, I am keeping you updated with news from the Team at Pixii. Since I’m doing some work for Pixii, this post focuses mainly on information, explanations, and sample images. Where any opinion is ventured, it is purely based on repeatable observations made during my use of the latest camera.

Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

Today, let’s talk monochrome.

There are a number of ways you can create a b&w photograph, each with its set of advantages and drawbacks, the most frequent being:

  • A dedicated monocrhome camera such as those sold by Phase or Leica and sensor conversions such as those offered by MaxMax. These, in theory, offer the best quality, since they do away with the Bayer filter. The downsides are price and complexity (of owning a separate camera) and low versatility.
  • Desaturating (or converting, via another method than desaturation) a colour photograph, in post-processing software. This is essentially free, if you already own both the camera and the software. The downsides are that software editors don’t always give you proper control over how colours are turned into b&w, and that there is some minor quality loss in the conversion. Also, purists will tell you you need to think mono to make good mono images. Colour cameras don’t offer a true monochrome workflow.
  • In-camera profiles, with the added bonus that this often offers a variety of different styles. The downside here is the jpg format of the images, which can look gorgeous out of camera, but offer very little latitude for post processing, should you need to lift shadows, for example, because of their jpeg format.
 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

The news

I hope it’s obvious by now that Pixii’s news(*) is monochrome related 😆

The company is offering a 4th way: in-camera RAW monochrome, from a traditional Bayer-sensor. In other words, and this is the big news:

All Pixii cameras from now on,
can be toggled between a RAW colour mode
and a RAW b&w mode.

The rest of this post answers the following questions: how is this done, how is it different from current options, what are the targeted benefits and what are the limits?

 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

How does it work? How do you use it?

How it works, is an interesting question. All sensors are monochromatic by nature. By adding a Bayer filter on top, you can create the illusion of colour via an algorithm (called debayering).

Pixii founder David, previously a software engineer, has developed an algorithm that reconstructs the luminance map of the light falling on the sensor before passing through the Bayer filter, as if that filter and the debayering algorithm had never existed.

In other words, it simulates a camera with no Bayer filter. See more about this here.

How you use it is simple: a double-click on a rear-face button activates the monochrome mode. Another double-click puts the camera back in colour mode. The mode toggle is also accessible in the camera menu and in the app menu, if you prefer that option.

 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4.
 

How is that different from previous solutions? How well does it work?

Compared to in-camera presets, this offers only one rendering (which as neutral as possible), not multiple emulations. The goal here is to preserve the most information in the RAW file to let the photographer edit with full latitude. And there obviously is a lot more of it, compared to jpeg files. Plus, if you want to use presets, you can just as easily shoot in colour and choose one of many presets in post. The Pixii being compatible with Adobe standards, there are numerous high quality presets to be used in compatible software.

Compared to converting to b&w in post, this solution offers the option of shooting in a pure monochrome workflow. Some readers will laugh out loud at this idea, others will cry tears of joy. You know who you are, please respect the other worldview. In terms of pure image quality, there’s not much in it. The “un-Bayering” algorithm is advanced (David has filed a patent for it), so it may offer a slight advantage but the company isn’t making any promises in that respect.

But its main goal is to provide untouched luminance, as if the Bayer had never been there. The advantage for purists, compared to b&w conversion, is that the file produced is extremely close to what a dedicated camera using the same sensor would provide. Tones aren’t decided by the post-processing software, but are a reflection of the light actually passing through the lens. The difference is more important than I ever imagined (see comparison example below). Also, this allows the use of colour filters, to shoot as experienced b&w photographers do.

 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

Compared to dedicated monochrome cameras, the two obvious advantages are cost (and simplicity of carrying one camera vs two, swapping lenses …) and versatility, thanks to the very high quality host colour camera. It objectively is as close to two cameras in one (and for the price of one) as one can imagine.

Monochrome camera buyers know exactly what they want: untouched photons and the end to end monochrome workflow. The latter aspect is obviously fulfilled by the Mono mode, so the interesting question is how close to a Bayer-free camera using the same sensor this algorithmic reconstruction can come.

David explains that de-Bayering algorithms (that create the colour image from the sensor reading) are now so finely optimised that resolution-loss and dynamic-range loss are minimal. This is born out by comparative reviews, which tend to confirm that workflow is the main advantage of pure player monochrome cameras over Bayer-versions converted in PP. As for the cumulative degradation of the Bayer filter and Pixii’s monochrome algorithm, David estimates it at around 15%.

Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

This is compared to a camera with the same sensor. And given the high-quality of the one in the Pixii and the following signal-processing circuit evidenced by the record-high score recently awarded by DxO, it’s unlikely the performance of the monochrome mode would raise concern for even critical shooters.

There is however a sensitivity penalty!

The red, green and blue filters in the Bayer matrix all block some light, to the tune of 1 or 1.5 stops globally. So, while the Pixii in Monochrome Mode loses no light compared to colour cameras, it does suffer a loss compared to pure b&w models. That being said, the sensor’s native ISO range in mono mode is roughly 100 – 8000 (plus 2 extra stops through “pushing”). You can decide whether that suits your needs or not.

 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

So, what do those files look like?

Straight out of camera, a bit gray, due to the dynamic range and preserved highlights. I systematically underexpose all digital cameras by 1 stop, so the files also looked slightly dark.

But I processed some in a high-contrast way and others using a much softer approach for you to see the potential of those files in post. The important fact is they do not break up under PP torture.

Here are two shots, one made at f/1.4, the other at f/8 (the second is also a 2 horizontal frames vertical pano), both with the Voigtlander 35/1.4. See the cars in the bottom part of the second to get a feel of the very smooth tonal range of the camera.

Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/1.4
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/8
 

Below, you have two photographs of the same scene, made a few seconds from one another. Both are vertical stitches of 2 horizontal frames, to produce a more or less square result. Aside from this, no PP was applied.

The first was shot in monochrome mode. The one below was shot in colour, and I then clicked the “Black & White” Treatment button in Lightroom. As you can tell, the two are different, with the pure mono being less contrasty and smoother. The tone curve of the monochrome mode is apprently modeled on b&w film.

 
Pixii in Monochrom mode, CV 35/1.4
Pixii in color mode, standard profile, switched to b&w in Adobe Lightroom
 

How does it compare with …XXXX… ?

It’s likely I haven’t tested …XXXX… and it’s absolutely certain I haven’t compared …XXXX… directly to a Pixii 😉 So, how about some facts instead?

Here are choices made by the team that go in the Pixii’s favour when using M-mount lenses (besides the fact that many M-mount lenses are superb technically, and very small) :

  • The sensor uses an optimised stack. It’s as thin as possible to play nice with the widest possible range of lenses, even from the film era (that obviously had zero filter stack). Most cameras today have very thick filter stacks that induce smear with those same lenses.
  • The sensor uses BSI technology. I’m not sure many other strictly monochrome camera do. BSI sensors have the sensitive pixel at the surface of the sensor. Non BSI sensors have that sensitive surface at the bottom of a little well. As rays come at an angle in the corners, far less light reaches the bottom than the surface, inducing vignetting and colour shifts. The Pixii is largely immune to this.
  • The sensor is APS-C. So its edges and corners do not use the outer regions of the lens’s image circle, that have the most flaws. You get the charm of old lenses, not the troubles 😉
 
 

Then, there’s the electronic shutter, that speeds up to 1/32 000s and allowed me to shoot wide open into direct sunlight.

Also, a fun side effect of the DNG file is that it is actually a color file containing only luminance information. This means you can actually play with the colour channels to create your own toning. Coupled with the wide range of contrast adjustment available, this leaves a lot of room for interpretaion 🙂

 
 

The downside of those choices is that … well … this is an APS-C camera with an electronic shutter. You already know whether this bothers you or not. And the drawbacks of the cameras (low battery life, in particular) are unchanged for now.

And I’m guessing that some older lenses with very pronounced MTF Zone B dips will show lower performance in the edges and corners of the frame. But isn’t that more natural than a dip in performance inside the frame with the edges picking up, as is the case with a full-frame sensor?

Targeted benefits

All camera design is an exercise in compromise. True mono cameras tend to come with a very hefty price tag. In-camera presets are fun but limited in their use. Colour-only cameras cannot replicate the workflow and control that is so dear to real fans of monochrome. Each targets a different audience, and that is as it should be.

Within this segmentation, Pixii hopes to make an experience, that’s virtually indistinguishable from pure mono, accessible to a wider audience, based on price and convenience considerations. If you’ve always wanted a colour camera AND a mono camera, suddenly the price – and weight – of each has been cut in half.

Possibly even more important is the commitment to bring fresh air to the photo world. New ideas, chief among which is upgradability. Today’s buyers get 26 high-performance megapixels (a sweet spot, for many users,) storage for up to 3500 RAW files (or over 15 000 in compressed RAW,) and a much more responsive user interface. While the technical evolution since early models is to be expected, the real news is that all buyers of early models can update to later specs, and some have.

 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/8
 

What is that workflow thou speakest of?

It feels like a fair question, given the importance given to it in the narative of all monochrome cameras. Not being a true specialist, I’ll give you my perception of it.

Flow is that moment when you are focused on “seeing” stuff. Photos come to you naturally, subjects you would normally not have noticed, seem to pop in front of your eyes. When in this state, time flies by, and any exterior intrusion will snap you out of it. In the work place, experts reckon is takes 20 minutes to get into that state of flow, and that we get interrupted (phone, meetings, tchat, noise …) so often that most of us never experience this state of great productivity. But once you have, you know for sure.

In a monochrome context, this means focusing more on quality of light than on a subject. The cat below isn’t interesting because it’s a cat, but because it’s black on a white background. The railings are interesting because of the same tonal reason. It takes time to switch from subject focused to light & pattern focused. That’s where pure mono cameras shine. Since you have no other choice, you get really good at it. In PP, this means you focus mainly on various forms of contrast as your only tools.

 
Pixii in Monochrom mode, CV 35/1.4
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/2.8
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
Pixii in Monochrom mode & CV 35/1.4
 

What’s in it for you?

As mentioned previously, you now essentially get two cameras for the price of one. If you’ve ever been tempted by a mono camera but aren’t willing to spend big for it, this is a rare opportunity. If you’re drawn to a greater integration with your smartphone and social sharing than most cameras offer, you could be interested too.

But, to me, the greatest differentiator is the upgrade path. When Tesla updates cars via the air, it always sparks joy among owners. A similar effect is at play here. When I reviewed the 26Mp version of this camera (still with slow innards) I claimed that the main benefit was the proof-in-the-pooding of the reality of the upgradability claim. Further improvements have happened since, and now this. So the small credibility regarding upgradability is now firmly established.

 
Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
 

This monochrome mode is the very first item I can reveal from a stream of equally interesting features, that will all be available to cameras bought before their release. To me, that’s a change of philosophy in the market that’s really worth noting, and deserves to be saluted, whether you intend to purchase a Pixii or not.

Fresh air indeed!

Let me leave you with a few more samples made at various times of the day. The camera was only with me for a couple of days before heading for review duty, so this is all I can provide for now, but more will come 🙂

If you are interested in more information, the official Pixii monochrome page await your visit 🙂

(*) Note that this feature has been available on some cameras for a little while now, Pixii are simply annoucing it to a wider audience, and implementing a switch in the app, at this stage.

Pixii in monochrome mode & CV 35/1.4 @ f/4
Pixii & Leica Elmarit-M 90
Pixii & Leica Elmarit-M 90 in very harsh light
 

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  • Steve Mallett says:

    Pascal, fascinating stuff, they are really challenging the mainstream and keep making the Pixii ever more desirable! Was my M10 purchase premature? Fab pics and I love the one with all the bollards.

    • pascaljappy says:

      Thanks Steve. Yes, they are challenging preconceived ideas in a way that I find very appealing and refreshing. Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Cheers

  • jean pierre (pete) guaron says:

    Fascinating. As a Pixii ambassador, you’re doing a great job.

    The first few images had a very painterly look – charming – different. And you went on to explain why.

    What I’d like to see is a gallery – with shots from two or three B&W cameras (including this one) – see one could actually see and appraise (or assess) the difference[s].

    Pretty much throughout my life I’ve always had several cameras – all doing different things.

    And vive la différence! When I was young and people wanted to badmouth the LGBT crowd, my response was quite simple – all the more for me!

    Here’s a challenge for you Pascal – you go with the new Pixii, and I’ll go with the full-frame Foveon from SIGMA – they’ve just announced that the sensor will be read by the end of this year, and as King Lear once remarked in Shakespeare’s history of the poor bewildered old man “the end is nigh” – not much left of “this year” now, so I’m expecting they’ll have the sensor within 3 months.

    I’m already jostling for a position at the head of the queue, and once we’re both ready, we can swap!

    • pascaljappy says:

      Sounds like a plan, Pete 😉

      As for comparison images, the team has done some. But the goal is to be virtually identical to a pure mono, so the comparisons aren’t that important 😉 I tried to show the difference between converting one image from colour to b&w and the native mono version. The difference is quite striking in terms of contrast and ease of PP. But resolution is obviously the same.

      Cheers and good luck with that Foveon.

      • jean pierre (pete) guaron says:

        A friend of mine had one of the monochrome Leicas, and went all round the place in Germany with it – the results were stunning – FAR better than anything I’ve ever seen, converted from a digi colour image!

        That of course is not the same as shooting with a bog standard digi that’s been switched to B&W. I’m not sure how that would differ from taking colour with the same camera and converting it later in post. But the purely B&W Leica thrashed either/both of them.

        And your Hassy isn’t bad at it, either! The benefits of more detail & less noise in highlights & shadows, shooting MF instead of FF !

        • pascaljappy says:

          What I’ve found, using the Pixii and a bunch of Leica Monos, is that they produce files that appear to be low-contrast and do an excellent job of preserving highlight detail.

          That’s a two part process: ditch the Bayer, either physically or algorithmically, and create a tone curve that’s dedicated to mono. That second part is often overlooked, and cameras converted to b&w probably retain their old tone curves and hard shoulders that make highlights very hard to recover.

          The Hassy comes quite close, but still no cigar compared to the Pixii or a Leica Mono. If I underexpose quite a bit and then correct that in post, results can be good. But it’s a lot of work without guaranteed results.

  • Andreas Aae says:

    Fascinating. Since the “un-Bayering” algorithm is a firmware upgrade, presumably it should be possible to embedd in any camera’s firmware? Imagine we could purchase a monochrome hack for our canons and nikons !
    That said, I find that the smartphone integration is over-engineering: It’s taking a route exactly opposite of what I look for in photography.
    I also think that a lot of people are attracted to the Leica M because it is so “under-engineered”.
    On the other hand: the Pixii could be my ideal secondary camera, or an extension of the smartphone which I am reluctantly forced to own anyway, -but the price really prohibits that.

    • pascaljappy says:

      Hi Andreas,

      I think the idea with the app coupling is to offer a few different processes to what we are used to with chimping cameras. Basically, you set up your camera for the shoot (using the app or the camera menu), you make your images, then you review, after the shoot. It’s meant to prvent chimping and encourage flow. Or you can tether and see the photos as they are being made, for instance in a studio. In all cases, the phone provides a far better screen than those on the back cameras. The app also makes it simpler to share images online, for those who enjoy that.

      Not sure how that would work on Nikon or Canon cameras, since the algo has been patented. But maybe they can talk to David if they are interested?

      All the best,
      Pascal

  • Des McSweeney says:

    Hi there. Thanks for all the time effort put into this editorial but one question I haven’t been able to find an answer to yet… how does the lightmeter work please? Is it centre weighted like Leica M film (or are there options). I am pretty sure I am going for Pixii in the autumn and am borrowing one in August for two weeks. I am really looking forward to it but it will force me to sell my Q2M which has given me me some of my best images in the last year. But one camera instead of two is an attractive proposition and I am just not a big fan of 28mm FOV.

    • pascaljappy says:

      Hello Des, your question has been forwarded to David, who will answer shortly. All the best, Pascal

    • David says:

      Hello Des, the camera uses center weighted average metering. It is the default metering mode. It can also be switched to either full scene average or spot metering.

  • Mer says:

    Very interesting indeed.

    Many of these images have a good feel of depth about them, very 3d. I’ll give that one to the photographer, but there’s no doubt the pixii handles tones rather nicely and in a way that I struggle to get near with b&w conversions. A lot of people are going to have a lot of fun with this one. There’s a laid back quality to these images that is hugely appealing – relaxing even.

    Also, apologies. I mooted the idea of photo-pairs and never sent one.

    Cheers

    • pascaljappy says:

      Thank you, Mer. Yes, the files appeal to me as well. The slightly soft lens helps with the chilled look, but even with my sharper Elmarit in terrible light, tones and contrasts are nicely kept in check. It’s impressive.

      Oooooops, photo pairs … I’d forgotten all about that. Bad Pascal, bad 😆 Thanks for reminding me, I’ll get cracking on those.

      Cheers

      • Mer says:

        I don’t think folk will mind if you shelve the photo pairs for now. I’m sure you have plenty of other stuff to get on with.

        Very interested to see how the pixii info develops. Adding a luminance-based mono mode makes the price look a lot more reasonable. The softer rendering looks good to me and I’d be keen to go that route if I end up getting one(never say never etc. etc.).

        Cheers

  • Sean says:

    Hi Pascal,
    Thank you for posting such an informative and enjoyable article on this very interesting camera.
    Also, I wonder if there would be any benefit in having a function that allows one to bias exposure to either a shadow or a highlight, and a function for multiple spot metering. This is purely an idea stemming from what Olympus implemented in their former OM3 & 4 film SLRs. Your accompanying images are most excellent, too. The lenses you used, were they deliberate choices or what was available at the time?
    Regards Sean

    • pascaljappy says:

      Thank you Sean 🙂

      The CV 35/1.4 came with the camera. I had them both only for a short period, but decided to use one of my favourite M-mount lenses the Elmarit-M 90), just to see the difference on a few shots.

      How would multiple spot metering work? An average of each spot measure? I don’t really understand the purpose here, not being very expert in this field. My normal use is to dial in some underexposure (typically -0.7EV or -1) and just leave the camera on “average”. If a scene is complicated, I might use spot, but that would only be on one area, not multiple ones. What am I missing here? 😉

      Highlight / shadow bias is an interesting idea. I’d spontaneously do that via exposure compensation (99% of the time to protect highlights, given how good modern sensors are at recovering shadows). But it probably would be easy to create a different workflow. David is open to any suggestions and reads those comments, so do feel free to elaborate on anything you’d like to see added in the future 🙂

      All the best,
      Pascal

      • Sean says:

        In regards to your “… How would multiple spot metering work? An average of each spot measure?…” Got it in one Pascal, that’s what I was on about and should have posed my question to you a little clearer. I was primarily thinking out aloud, well, in words in this instance. Given the B&W bit on the Pixii tends towards a film like experience, I thought I’d pose the question. Also, offering this maybe a more precise control avenue for some photographers; as could be a highlight and shadow bias function. Sometimes the answers are probably there in reality, we just have to ask the right questions. 🙂

        • pascaljappy says:

          Cool, thank you for the ideas, Sean 🙂

          • Sean says:

            One last question Pascal. Given the Pixii has a patented B&W protocol, how would the use of classic B&W – B, R, O, Y, G – filters go towards a Pixii based B&W image and its crafting. That is, would it be advisable and or wise to use such a filter at the beginning – recording phase – over and above relying on a third party programme based filter effect?
            Sean

            • pascaljappy says:

              Yes, you would be able to use glass filters at capture, as with b&w film or a mono camera.
              Or you could switch to colour mode and apply such a filter in a b&w conversion in film.

              Both would work, but my experience shows that the tones are smoother in monochrome mode.

              Hope this helps 🙂

      • Des McSweeney says:

        Dear Pascal,

        As I think I mentioned elsewhere my finger is hovering over the ‘pay’ button. My good buddy Hamish (who you will know) has just lent me his. My first sortie was mix of colour and mono. Colours were a little warm but well exposed (bit like Kodak Ektar perhaps) monos were all overexposed, some quite badly, using centre weighted which is what I would I would use on my MP. I have just sold my superb but too wide Q2M and am planning to make the jump to Pixii. But I need to win the mono game to be certain. I see you underexpose 1 stop as a matter of course – you obviously think that works but my pics from yesterday are all more than one stop overexposed when the meter was on the white dot in the middle each time. Grateful for any further thoughts you might have please Pascal. oh… and can you point me to where the shortcut button and choices are explained please. Mono to colour or ISO seems good possible choices.
        Thanks for reading this far.
        All the best
        Des

        • pascaljappy says:

          Hi Pascal, yes, I have heard of Hamish 🙂 I’m glad the loan went well!
          The over exposure is somewhat surprising and I understand your concern. In my experience, the camera had a tendency towards slight underexposure, but only used the default metering mode (which, I assume, is whole frame average). Could you try this, or maybe ask Hamish to try that to check how well that works?

          I no longer have the camera here, but will ask David for information on how to configure the shortcut button. My understanding is that, in new camera, it is set to Mono/Colour. In the app, it should be straightforward to find, but I’m not as sure in the camera menu. I’ll get back to you privately.

          All the best 🙂
          Pascal

          • Des McSweeney says:

            I owe a bit of an amend to my note. the big overexposures were in the app, when I downloaded then into LR it was much reduced. Slightly odd that they would be so different in the two media. The overexposure in app was in both jpeg and dog…

  • Des McSweeney says:

    ha ha. dng not dog 😉

  • Ricardo says:

    I believe that a photograph becomes part of the intangible universe of art when it touches one’s soul. That house (the 7th pic before last) already fully shadowed in its close expectancy of the falling night, endures its everlasting humble attempt to merge its man-made short-living fate with its parental source of creation, nature itself. Its apparent lethargic state vis-a-vis the still vibrantly lighted peaks so adamantly pompous at its background is by no means a sign of junior subservience. On the contrary, it’s a dinamic “faux” posture over its real intent of defiance: “Hey, daddy, catch me up for supper”.
    I’m not surprised, today’s adolescents have smartly succeeded in cutting off damaging millennial conceptual paradigm strings of moral and mental brilliance of elderly over their siblings. However, and controversially put, respect for the feats of their parents and grand ones, has reached a peak of never before close attempt to praise their due merits. Finally, we can all talk to each other, intensively and open minded, all age groups together while and yet the elder ones finally acknowledged as still able enough to point new and wiser alternatives to their still everlasting existence seeking younger generations.
    That’s how my soul and heart feel looking at that lonely house, all gray at first sight but, under the magic of a true subtle monochrome luminescence, reveals not just the wrinkles on the forehead of an unwavering care taking proud grandma but her patient soul propensity to accommodate all cozily together around the so sought warmth of her fireplace after a long struggling day for living.
    OMG, thank you Pixii, for making real what real was long gone.
    The visual universe of monochrome perception is the ultimate path for men realizing its pure genesis truth. God thinks B&W, since God is light or not. Color was only added to us as a temporal filter provided by His also temporal filter, the sun, so to, ultimately, understand that a lettuce tastes the same under or out of light rays, Its green color means nothing as for what it all matters, its taste and its proteic values. We live 1/3 of our life time in B&W, sleeping. There is nothing more terrifying nor more gratifying moments in our lives than B&W nightmares or dreams come true impacts on our day-to-day living.
    I’m gonna go to bed now, folks, starting up with imagining stepping into that shadowed house, so non-traceable by any spying satellite but so organically inviting hub for my utmost needs of immediate response to a boy suddenly deprived from his mum’s nurturing sap. All I feel like is to feel cozy and relaxed and free of any guilt. That house’s imaginary interior, thanks to what its outside B&W delicate details appeals, will suffix to knock me down in a, hopefully, voyage to the even more adventurous insights of God’s messages.
    Photographs touching my soul? Try harder to match its organic fabric, as from God Himself and speak His language.

    • pascaljappy says:

      Hello Ricardo, my sincere apologies for such a late reply. It appears your comment was lost in the flow, which is a terrible shame given how deep and inspiring it is. I agree with you that Pixii is an inspiring company with a fresh product. They have just launched a new version, by the way, which might bridge the gap with younger generations, thanks to a much faster and frugal processor.

      Here’s wishing you a very Happy Christmas!!
      All the best, Pascal

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