Sony RX100 VI 20.1 MP Premium Compact Digital Camera w/ 1-inch sensor, 24-200mm ZEISS zoom lens and pop-up OLED EVF
Sony RX100 VI 20.1 MP Premium Compact Digital Camera w/ 1-inch sensor, 24-200mm ZEISS zoom lens and pop-up OLED EVF
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- 24-200mm F2.8-F4.5 ZEISS Vario-Sonnar T lens
- World's fastest (0.03 sec) hybrid AF system (contrast plus phase)
- Battery life:Up to 330 shots / 165 minutes
- In-the-box: Rechargeable Battery Pack NP-BX1, AC Adaptor, Micro USB cable, Wrist Strap, Strap Adapter
- Viewfinder type: electronic viewfinder
- Image stabilization: Optical
Brand : Sony
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Point & Shoot Digital Cameras
Rating : 4.2
ListPrice : US $1198
Price : US $1198
Review Count : 135
Sony RX100 VI 20.1 MP Premium Compact Digital Camera w/ 1-inch sensor, 24-200mm ZEISS zoom lens and pop-up OLED EVF
- This is wonderful compact camera! As someone who has used DSLRs and more recently mirrorless cameras for decades, I was impressed by the performance. There are a lot of reviews out there about this camera and the pros/cons about the additional reach with the 200mm zoom versus the lost low light ability, so I\'ll skip that. However, and this isn\'t a fair comparison, coming from a Canon 6D and now a Sony A7 III, the RX100 VI 1 inch sensor can\'t compete in the low light department. It was strained in relatively decent light -- an airplane cabin with all the lights on, for example, although perfectly acceptable for Instagram or Facebook. However, in good light the images were great. Good contrast, detailed, and the colors were generally really good--almost as good as a DSLR.Video performance was really, really good. Completely blew away my Canon 6D. The only downside is that an external mic jack would have been nice, so the sound could be as good as the video. The internal mic is decent, though.Focus in both photo and video mode was spot on accurate 99% of the time. In the past, compact cameras were unusable to me because they focused so slowly. The RX100 VI has DSLR levels of speed when it comes to focusing. Speaking of speed, the 24 frames per second this camera is capable of is ridiculously fast. I actually had to use the \"low\" continuous shooting setting because it was too fast for most situations.Battery life is much better than I expected it to be. I was able to take a full day\'s worth of pictures and some video on one battery while sightseeing on vacation.The menu system, especially as I am used to Canon, had a steep learning curve, but once configured, and used for a while, wasn\'t too bad. I highly recommend watching a few YouTube videos as there are many good tips out there.A word of caution for those coming from DSLRs and mirrorless cameras though. While much faster than most compact cameras, you can\'t get away from the fact that turning the camera on/off takes a second or two as the lens emerges from the body and back. It\'s annoying because in a flick of a switch, a DSLR is ready to go. If you\'re used to compact cameras, then the lag isn\'t going to bother you and is probably better than most compact cameras.Otherwise, it\'s amazing the amount of performance that was fit in such a small package.The biggest disappointment, however, is the connectivity software, PlayMemories. Getting it to connect via WiFi on my Samsung S8 was a nightmare. You have to turn off cellular data every time--it took hours of research to figure that out. Once connected, it works fine, but you then have to remember to turn cellular data back on. Something that should be simple is a multiple step process. Connecting via Bluetooth isn\'t straightforward either and you need it to get location/GPS information from your phone to include on your pictures. The secret there is to pair via PlayMemories rather than through the phone setup like you normally would with just about any other device. Even after it is paired, I found the connection would be dropped or that you would need to manually connect every time you turned on the camera. And if you didn\'t notice the connection was lost or not established, you\'d have to tag the location info manually on each picture. I wish they included GPS chip instead of having to rely on Bluetooth with your phone\'s GPS, so this wouldn\'t be a problem.Bottom line is the RX100 VI is a great camera but with terrible connectivity software.
- Let me start by saying that I purchased this camera mainly to capture photos of our 10 month old baby son. As we all know infants move unpriedictevly and fast focusing camera is a must. Here is why this camera delivers on that task.1. It’s fast. I mean lightning fast not only in acquiring focus but also during handling like switching between menu, playback and picture taking modes. I never wait for things to happen, I press and it happens.2. Burst mode is incredibly fast. It’s critical to have fast frame burst mode in order to capture that baby’s smily face. 24 frames with continuous focus is crazy fast!3. Touch screen! Finally Sony!Even though it only works during live view mode to pin point autofocus and during playback mode to magnify picture(no pinch to zoom in or out unfortunately) I don’t think I’m missing out here. I don’t use touch screen in menus anyway. I works good, I don’t feel any lags.4. It’s very customizable in terms of assigning shortcut buttons.Sony’s menu is not very intuitive especially coming from Canon world but I think once you setup my menu items and reassign buttons the way you like you will be OK.Particularly I like one feature. It’s burst photos images grouping.If I take burst photo with let say 50 photos I don’t have to scroll trough them all to get to the next picture, camera groups those 50 photos in 1 group and you can exit it and go to next picture. Another neat feature is that you can protect picture you like and delete the rest of pictures with press of a button, so you have to delete 49 other pictures manually if you like just 1 of them. I don’t know why other cameras don’t have that, it makes my life much easier.5. Great dynamic range right out camera’s JPEGs.We all probably had a situation when you want to take a photo from inside restaurant with some beautiful view outside and people by your table but than you have dilemma. When background is properly bright people by a table are dark, if you want people on your pic to look bright background becomes overexposed or very bright. That’s when this cameras outperforms any other cameras I have used. It has feature called DRO it makes dark areas brighter while keeping whole scene properly exposed. It’s not HDR function when camera takes 3 photos and stacks them, it only takes 1 photo. By the way it has HDR mode too and works well too but as we all know it’s only good for still scene as photo can come out blurry if anybody moved during capturing these 3 photos.6. You can take 4K video and grab photo from it. I love this function, I just shoot high resolution 4K video of our constantly moving baby boy and then just grab 17 megapixel frame from it if I like it. Great feature!7. You can instantly transfer photos to your smartphone via WiFi no cables needed even when you are outside away from Wifi.It’s not as simple setup as Canons system but it’s easy enough.And you can start sharing those photo minute after you took them!Overall I’m very happy with my purchase. Lack of touch screen held me back from buying rx100 cameras for years! Not anymore!Yes this camera is expensive but it’s good investment that will last.I don’t think I will need to but any other camera for many more years.It does everything I need it to do superbly!
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