Hey everyone!
It's Lachlan here and I'm here with my brand new
Sony RX100 Mark Three and if you're like me and you just got one of these cameras
you're probably really excited about using it. I know I am!
But you're probably wondering what kind of accessories you can get with it
and what works and what doesn't?
And I've actually gone a bunch of things I just want to show you some the
accessories I've bought and how well they work. So
the first thing I show you is this. This is the Lowepro
Dashpooint 10 bag and I got this for 24 dollars in Australia - but I think
you can get it for much cheaper
in America. I got this particular bag because I didn't necessarily want to
just take the RX100 around in my pocket.
It is small enough to fit in many pockets though it's not going into
skinny jeans or anything like that.
But I just felt up it's not particularly protective to have the
camera in your pocket. The fabric of your pants is probably very thin if you
accidentally knock it against something
when you're traveling around it's probably not the best thing for the camera so I'd
rather have
a dedicated little bag. Now the nice thing about this little pouch
is that it's quite versatile. So it comes with some neck straps. I don't have
them attached here.
But it comes with some neck straps so you can just kind of hang it around your
neck like a normal camera bag.
But you can also, it also has two sets of straps
It has this one set of straps here - these lateral straps
which mean that you can strap it around the shoulder straps of your backpack or
anything like that
and also has this vertical strap here so that you can strap it
around your belt on your pants.
And that's how I've been using it. That's really cool these it means you can just
holster
the camera in the bag around your hip and you can effectively shoot from your hip
anytime so that's really cool. The other thing about this bag is that it's quite nicely
padded without being too bulky
If fits the RX100 quite snugly
but not too snugly so it's quite easy to get in
and out. The zipper actually opens
from the top away from the body and this is really good because it means that
it's quite easy to access. You just peel it back and
pull the camera out. Just make sure that you don't accidentally press the power
button when you're pulling it out because the lens will
kind of just try to a extend while still in the bag.
There's a little pouch at the top with a memory card.
So yeah and then you can just zip it up when you're done with it. I leave the
wrist strap hanging
out because it's just a little bit fussy to try and get back in and if you're going to do
that quite
often it's probably not the best thing. But I tried this out last night at a party
I just had it
hanging at my side the whole night it worked really well.
So I would kind of really recommend it! So that was only 24 dollars
and that is the Lowepro Dashpoint 10.
The next thing I'll show you is
a screen protector. So Sony makes the official screen protector
for the RX100 and the A7
models and that is the PCK-LM15.
I could not find that in stock in Australia but I found out that the PCK-LM14
which was originally made for the A99v and the A99
actually still works perfectly fine on the RX100.
The only difference is that the PCK-LM14 comes with an
extra screen protector for a part that the RX100 doesn't have.
Other then that the actual thing that fits around the screen works perfectly
as you can see it's actually already been fitted on camera.
It basically is just a polycarbonate screen
Stops it from getting scratches, that kind of thing. So,
you know, that will improve the resale value of the camera. Once you have it on
you can't tell that it's there. So yeah, that's another nice little accessory
and I would again recommend that! Okay so the next thing I want to show you
is the battery charger. So the RX100 uses
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NP-BX1 batteries from Sony. And they actually
sell a portable battery Charging Kit
called the ACC-TRDCX which is a bit of a mouthful.
But it comes with the actual charger itself
and a spare battery.
And originally when I got this I thought I can't believe it! I just paid $55 dollars
to get
a spare battery and this little piece of plastic here. It doesn't even have
wall plugs so you can't plug this into the wall. You have to use a
micro USB cable to plug into another USB charger.
But the more I thought about this little accessory the more I realised that this is
actually
really genius because number one I already have
a million USB wall chargers at home that I can plug this into.
That's not a problem I and if you have laptop charger USB chargers with USB chargers, etc. etc.
That works really well. The other really incredible thing I figured out about this
was that because this thing is so tiny
you can just carry this around with your camera and if you have something like
a portable battery charger like I do because
we live in the crazy 21st century now where everyone carries just carries around an extra portable
battery with them
So you can actually connect one of these things with a micro USB cable
into this charger and you can charge this secondary
spare battery in your bag while your main one is in the camera and you can just
kinda
swap them out on the field and that's really cool and you wouldn't want be able to do
that
if you had to rely on access to a wall outlet. So
I'm actually pretty impressed with this little thing.
So yeah and I would recommend it. It cost me $55 dollars again you may be able to get it cheaper
I'm not sure but yeah that's pretty cool.
The last thing I wanna show you is a tripod and I didn't
actually get this tripod with the RX100. I actually got it much
earlier. This is the Manfrotto PIXI. I've
actually used this for quite some time now and I really really like it. I think
it's a really versatile little
tripod because it's not only just a tripod that you just connect
to your camera. With this:
you know, the standard tripod mount here.
It doubles as a carrying handle because it gives you
quite a nice grip on the camera which means you get more of a
stable fit. It's quite easy to adjust when you press the button
It can get stiff sometimes if you get a little
anything inside the actual turning mechanism but as long as you keep it
clean
it works reasonably well.
The other nice thing is that if you kind of deploy all the legs and you hold
your camera like that, this thing actually
acts as a counter weight. It acts as a dampener. So you can actually get slightly
more stabilised shots which is really good
if you're shooting video. And of course it doubles
as a simple little tripod. So I actually like carrying this thing around.
In the backpack I usually go around with
I know some people like those Gorillapods that let you
kind of attach them to any sort of thing anywhere but
I actually find them a little fussy compared to this thing which is pretty much
set up and forget. So
you know, that's really awesome. Anyway I'm still playing around with this camera.
I'll have first impressions up of this camera soon but I can
definitely tell you if you are on the fence about whether or not this camera
is a good camera I can tell you now
this has been incredibly fun to use and I can tell that I'm gonna be able to do
a lot more with this camera
simply because it's so tiny and yet so powerful that
I'll have it with me anywhere. Anyway click the like button if you found this video helpful
and leave a comment if you find any other cool accessories that work well with this. I
would love to hear them.
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on Twitter @lachlikesathing. And
happy shooting!