The big little one

The big little one

Sony DSC-RX100 Cyber-shot digital camera (20 megapixels, optical zoom 3.6x, 7.6 cm (3 inch) display, fast aperture. 28 - 100 mm zoom lens F1.8 - 4.9, Full HD image stabilized) (Electronics)

Customer Review

I take pictures with the Pentax system for about 30 years. Since the K-7 is also digital. With the Kx, the K-7 and K-5 in the meantime three Pentax Bodies have accumulated here. Bodies can be flanged to the lenses and must be. This ranges from a small pancake to large telephoto lenses, which can bring the 2kg on the scale alone before.

Such photographic equipment would be always moving. Even if Pentax Bodies alongside Canon or Nikon be relatively compact so they are in no way suitable for your pocket with a flanged lens - even in the event of a pancake. It does not take such photographic equipment simply with, but only if you want them to make well aware of photos normally. But, who could not sing a song about it, many of the best photo moments come unexpectedly.
For this reason is since the appearance of the S90 Canon always one of the S series from Canon with a 1 / 1.7 sensor in the household. The really fits as the only enthusiast compacts in the trouser or jacket pocket and is easily used anywhere. When BQ you have here do a pretty distinct swab to the DSLR but.

The RX100 I saw for the first time aware of at a family party in the hands of a relative, a typical man who likes to take pictures, but aperture, ISO and exposure time knows only by hearsay and the cameras largely operates in the green (auto) mode. To anticipate: This can be done with the RX100 also very good.

I took the RX in the hand and thought; sees a Canon S already quite similar, rotating ring on the lens is also there, lens barrel significantly larger, built a little more in depth but still quite pocket fit. Buttons at the back a bit small, housing something smooth and slightly rough, monitor of good quality, telephoto rocker wobbly, trigger point might be a bit sensible.

At home, I then studied specifications and reviews and knew that I should try the camera (must have). Here ordered from Amazon for two weeks and very impressed with what the camera size of image quality is possible today.

The RX 100 is very sharp in the middle focal length range from aperture 4. The SLR has at a low ISO setting in every respect modern level. Chapeau Sony! The resolution of 20MP is here the good zoom lens appropriately and vice versa. The eventual failure of the lens are very well concealed from the camera electronics, which one can judge the permanently installed in an objective and the related electronics just as an overall package - and this total package is impressive not only for its size.

Compared to eg. The DSLR K-5 of Pentax of course there are less direct access possibilities, fewer choices and specialization in optics, less sealing against rain and dust, slower reactions, lower high-Iso bandwidth but the RX100 you put just so in the pocket, they responded to a compact sufficiently quickly (even if the lens barrel for a time needed to move into position), it acts robust with regard to their case and it is delivering real signal quality in the situation and that is for me the important. The image quality is miles away from what I know of the Enthusiast Compact. Even with good photo conditions and sufficient light. The RX100 packs regarding detail resolution again quite a shovel on it compared to cameras with 1 / 1.7 sensor from Canon, Panasonic, Samsung etc.

The 20MP blur not, texture remains largely to 800ISO. The sensor-based anti-shake functions well. Detail resolution of the lens is very good. This must be borne in all, therefore, always bear in mind, because there are lenses that cost several thousand euros.
Macro works. Here you have to make mE most compromising, if you are a real macro lens is used, but, hey, we speak of a compact camera, right?

Weaknesses of the lens (if you want to speak because of weaknesses) are, due to design, most likely to make out at the outer range of the focal length ranging from 10.4 to 37.1 mm focal length and handed in small format equivalent 28-100 mm. This means that the crop factor of the sensor 1 is 2.7. For a compact camera until recently unthinkable value, which says in not much, but from which one can draw on the light transmission of the lens and light on the sensor conclusions.

Maximum aperture of the lens is at wide angle and 1.8 in telephoto position 4.9. That is, in wide-angle is very nice waivers focusing on the subject can be achieved. Not quite so, such as with a 1.8 intensity. To APS-C, but still so that there is a visible, nice effect of sharpness to blur. Physics can be because not outwit. As with the maximum aperture of 4.9 at the telephoto end. For a larger or higher light intensity over the entire focal length range required a much larger area of ​​light transmission, which meant a much larger camera in practice a considerably larger lens mass and in total.

Sony has gone here with the certified Zeiss lens on the limits of what was possible in this size and that's enough for most photographic vicissitudes of life. Scene Modes I do not use, but I am glad that the automatic also in the hands of my children delivers good photos.

Finally, a point that reasonably knocked me off the stool because it so far on a compact camera was not so important to me and I on the other hand not so reckoned: The video quality.

I lean times very far from the window and say: When a master of his trade would turn with this camera a television film, they were completely satisfied with the film quality. Means to me that I'm currently more videos than before. The quality is phenomenal and also so good because of the anti-shake performance also works with video.

Well, if you've come this far to the conclusion that I am a fan of this little camera so you're right. Please forgive me. I am doing so not a fan of Sony Corporation and its sometimes restrictive product policy, but I'm shooting for decades very happy - and this little camera has photographing with compact cameras raised to a new, very high level.

I acknowledge without envy and make the most of the necessary quality.

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