Sony RX100 Camera Review

If you ever tired of carrying a DSLR and the camera bag with you and wondering of a camera containing the features of a DSLR with a size that fits inside your pocket, here is Sony's newest product in the market with Cybershot RX100 which is for the photographers who wants to travel light and won't be deprived of the exposure control features. Rx100 has one-inch CMOS censor, 20.2 Mega pixel Resolution and maximum aperture of f1.8 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens that has all the DSLR type features like manual adjustment, exposure control, manual/auto focus. The camera also lets you capture images in raw with JPEG format.
Other features include 10 frames per second shooting speed, full HD 1080/60p Video with manual control, Sweep Panorama and some other interesting automated modes.

+ PROS:

• It's Size and the DSLR like features is the main advantage of this camera.
• A bigger censor size with high ISO (80-6400) gives less noise in low light, and better color ranges in the picture, and maximum aperture f1.8 also gives sharp differing depth of field ( blurry background) and perfect shot in low lights.
• A sweep panorma feature lets you swing the camera in an arc pressing the shutter button, and the result a 220 degree panorama shot without any stitching. 
• Super closeup macro shot with the abililty to focus any object 2 inches away.

- CONS

• Full HD video won't give you the same quality as the photo does.
• 3.6X zoom lens is not quite suitable to many DSLR users, and cropping a high pixel photo is not the solution to amplify the zoom.
• No external Charger for the camera is also one of the downside.
• $650 is pretty expensive which can even buy a good entry level DSLR, but the bulkiness with the camera bag is there.

Release Date: August, 2012
All in all, a pocket camera that lets you shoot with DSLR features but not that professional is what you get with $650.

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