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high-tech lead here and today I thought
I would review the Sony rx100 Mark 6 now
this is one of the newest
point-and-shoot cameras Sony rx100
lineup has been incredible ever since it
came out now I've been playing with this
camera over the past few days and as a
semi-professional photographer I wanted
to give you my thoughts about it and
what I can do and the first thing to
know is that it's quite an expensive
camera it comes in about $1,200 right
now there are similar competitors here
and there but there are a few key
features that make this camera really
stand out so the first thing to know is
compared to the prior generation mark 5
the mark 6 has a new lens and this is
one of the biggest differences about
this camera this lens is 24 to 200
millimeters so that's actually a very
good range the prior lens was just 24 to
70 millimeter which is about 3x zoom
this lens is a 8 X zoom so that's quite
a big difference however it comes with a
downside which is that it is about twice
as slow at the widest angle it is f 2.8
compared to F 1.8 for the prior
generation lens so I think that's kind
of a big hit now in addition to the lens
the mark 6 also has a touch screen that
you can use you can tap on it to focus
on different areas in the scene but
that's pretty much the only major usage
of this touch screen you don't really
use it for much other things a few other
key things about the rx100 are this tilt
Apple LCD screen which is really nice
because you can use it for shooting down
low you can you can hold it up high and
look under it or or you can also use it
for vlogging and this is a very cool
mode in addition the rx100 also has an
electronic viewfinder which you can use
once your face gets close enough you can
use it it's essentially a LCD screen
inside I generally don't use this
electronic viewfinder out too much but
it could turn out useful I think people
generally use it when it's really bright
and then the screen becomes a little bit
harder to see now the mark six has a few
additional features compared to the mark
five maybe a little tweaks and
adjustments here and there like maybe
better skin color I think the screen
tells all the way 90 degrees now like
this so that you can get a better view
when you're under the camera normally in
my only till 45 degrees something like
that on the mark 5 and prior generations
so that's really the main difference
with the rx100 mark 5 and I think the
mark 5 is an excellent camera but it's
also not a bad idea to just pay the
extra and then you get this 200
millimeter zoom the zoom is a lot of fun
I was out shooting with it today and
it's just more fun than I imagined like
you can use and resume really far away
you can shoot animals they say the 24 to
70 millimeter range which is with the
mark 5 is a very practical and useful
range it is known as the event lens
range and wedding photographers for
example can shoot an entire wedding
event using this lens but they were also
often carried to 70 to 200 millimeter
lens which is this huge massive
telephoto lens and that's to really get
those zoomed up shots it's really cool
that this one camera is like 2 lenses
built-in now when I buy cameras I look
at really two things only and that is
sensor size and lens and the sensor size
for this is one inch and most digital
cameras generally come in about 1/3 inch
the iPhone is 1/3 inch so this sensor is
about three times the size of a normal
camera and the reason this is important
is because the bigger the sensor
generally your colors will look better
the image quality is just going to be
much nicer and in addition is going to
be easier to get bouquet which is that
blurring of the background and I think
it's a difference between say an iPhone
shot where the image looks ok it's like
a block shot you just post it and share
it but it's not the type of thing you
really want to print in a book and it
just lacks theft the colors on this are
generally going to look better they're
going to have more contrast more pop so
back in the day in Nikon and Canon were
dominating the camera market and then
Sony came in and out of nowhere they
began pioneering really consumer
friendly camera technology that was
actually very professional as well and
Sony actually began making the sensors
for the Nikon d800 full-frame
Professional Series and Sony's sensor
technology is also powering the
I phone so that's why I think that the
Sony brand is actually one of the best
brands right now in the field of cameras
and photography so at the one inch
sensor size this is somewhere between
like a point-and-shoot and the DSLR crop
sensor camera but the great thing is
that it's in a really compact size and
when you buy a camera I think you really
have to ask yourself what's your usage
case so for me I want the easy to take
pictures of my kids my pets my family
and then for me I might also want to use
it to do some vlogging so set it up in
this position the cool thing about the
Sony sensor is it will actually
autofocus it has autofocus built into
that sensor on the hardware level
whereas most cameras are going to be
using the software to slowly autofocus
and because of that it makes it very
difficult to use general point-and-shoot
cameras to shoot pets animals
fast-moving targets and when you combine
that with a telephoto lens it's just a
really cool package because that fast
autofocus becomes even more necessary
when you're shooting targets at long
distances because they're just moving
around the screen so quickly for
vlogging I think this is also pretty
neat because it has image stabilization
so that image stabilization comes in
really handy when I'm zoomed in
telephoto it just gets rid of a lot of
that handshaking so on the front of the
camera you really just have this ring
the strings functionality changes
generally but here I'm using it to
adjust the aperture this is for zooming
in zooming out we have a little flash
here
this button triggers that electronic
viewfinder which personally I don't use
too much now on the front we have a few
different modes I can tell you which
most I might stick with one is aperture
priority the other shutter priority so
aperture priority is good for taking
photos and you know all you do is you
just adjust the aperture and it's got
auto ISO set up and you can just shoot
and it will shoot raw mode now the thing
to know is this camera so knew that at
the moment Adobe Camera Raw Photoshop
Lightroom they don't support the RAW
format of this camera yet they
eventually will but at this point you
really have to use Sony's proprietary
software to process the raw files that's
kind of a pain so at the moment I might
just be shooting JPEG which is kind of a
waste but I can switch to raw and still
process it if I really want to there's a
function button here and that gets you
into the camera settings where you can
change all sorts of things like what the
ISO is going to do white balance and one
cool thing about white balance is they
have a mode where you can quickly set
the white balance you simply just hold
the button it takes a picture and you
can use that as the white balance the
other one eye shadow priority which is
you know you can just shoot based on
shutter speed pick on another cool mode
here which is HFR high frequency and
this is for shooting slow motion and
their menu system is very complicated
they have all sorts of different things
you don't really necessarily need to
come in here to mess with it so with the
high frequency mode you can shoot slow
motion you can actually drive it up to
960 frames per second which is insane
slow motion 240 is good enough for me
it's good for short-term slow motion
when you know there's a scene that you
want to do and it's like five seconds or
so there's another funny feature at this
house which is a panorama mode you can
just start it
and then you just rotate it and it can
make a panorama for you and then the
other interesting mode here is going to
be that video mode so in video mode you
can start video by pressing this button
and the cool thing is you can see that
it would just focus like it's focusing
on my hand now move it out and it slowly
focuses to the background and then if
I'm putting my hand here it will slowly
focus on my hand against one interesting
thing is the exposure changes as you
move the camera around right that's kind
of unprofessional thing I set it up so
that if I press this button it locks the
auto exposure so then the exposure
doesn't change anymore and that's quite
nice when the annoying thing is that the
exposure doesn't necessarily track the
focal point so even though I'm focusing
on my head my head can still become very
dark so probably the best way to do this
is to just use the auto exposure lock
let me show you quickly how cool the
auto focus is because you see how fast
that is and even fight zoom all the way
in see it's very quick this auto focus
is so impressive and I also like how
quickly I can shoot let's say there's a
target
so it can shoot very quickly and I think
that's great the image quality is ok but
it's important to remember that this
camera will not even be a DSLR camera
which has a much bigger sensor and even
though this camera can shoot remote that
raw mode is not necessarily going to be
real Ramu like I tried processing some
of the raw photos and even though it was
much better than JPEG I still wasn't
able to restore as much of the photos
shadows and highlight area as much as
I'm normally used to be able to do on
the standard full-frame camera so I
think overall it's important to
understand why you're getting this
camera for me I already have a
full-frame camera but it's so big it's
heavy I'm not always going around with
it and especially with a baby on the dog
my hands are often full already I don't
have enough hands to be managing all
that plus a full-frame camera and
cameras on phones are also generally
quite limited because they don't really
have a good zoom feature they don't
really have good bouquet effects they
don't really have good autofocus
features if you're looking at other
cameras in this range I would look out
for a few features one feature which I
think the Panasonic cameras may not have
at this point is this tilting LCD screen
which i think is really cool to have is
good for vlogging it's good for getting
really cool shots as I mentioned
compared to prior generations this does
have that 200 millimeter lens if you're
interested in shooting birds animals or
even portraits then this lens is really
great for that I think the canon g7x
series is also actually quite good and
it may be enough for what you're looking
for but what the Sony rx100 series has
is that face detect autofocus the F 2.8
compared to the mark 5 series is kind of
a shame it's a little bit darker than it
should be now as for whether this camera
is worth 1,200 bucks I think the thing
to be aware of is that cameras like this
seem very fragile they say in the
instruction manual that it's not thus
proof it's not waterproof it's not
splash proof this lens itself is three
pieces so it looks very easy to get
stuck and things like this they say you
shouldn't be putting this camera inside
your pocket and sitting on it it's not
heavy-duty at all
they say that this electronic viewfinder
when you push it back in make sure it
doesn't get stuck and so well I think
this should generally paint a picture
for you of is that this camera is
kind of a delicate device and you should
be careful about it so it does make me a
little nervous carrying around a $1200
delicate piece of machinery overall
though I think that what you may really
be buying is inspiration when I used to
do a lot of more professional
photography I had the five thousand
dollar camera set that just made me feel
like a superstar and on those really
cold mornings I wake up I would have to
go shoot a time-lapse somewhere dark
summer cold and windy I might have to
skip dinner sometimes and when I had
this amazing piece of machinery that I
just loved it made me feel awesome it
represents pretty much what is best in
class in point-and-shoot technology so
there you go I hope you enjoyed the
review let me know your thoughts on the
Sony rx100 and similar camera models I'd
love to hear your thoughts and I will
see you next time but