- It is quite rare that I am super early
to a product launch this time.
SONY RX100 Mark VI launch event in Hong Kong.
I'm so early they are still setting up.
As the name suggested,
this is the sixth RX100 series
of premium compact camera that take impressive photos
and video from a tiny little camera.
In fact, the only reason I'm so early
because I'm not just reporting this
from the audience seat,
I've got to talk.
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That allow me to get the camera early,
and this is what I found.
I think you can't fully realise how small
this camera is until you get this in your hand.
That's what I think.
Saw it on the web,
it doesn't, yeah, it's a small camera,
but when you actually got it in your hand,
it's like wow.
It's really small.
Actually I think this is smaller than
a lot of people's wallet.
The biggest change on this is,
of course, a 24 to 200 millimetres
zoom lens.
But this is a little bit slower.
f/2.8 to f/4.5, slower than before.
Before it was, the Mark V got 1.8 to 2.8.
Well of course you got a big zoom lens,
well not big, it's still tiny.
Well kind of big for this camera.
This camera zoom lens is not unique to SONY.
Panasonic got the TS200, or TS220,
or TZ200, or TZ220, or TX2.
Different name based on where you get it.
That one give you 24-360mm
but slower aperture.
Now one thing is really unique to RX100 is
that pop-up viewfinder.
This is great.
What improve on this one is that, before that,
after you pop this up, you see you have
to pull the eyepiece out.
Not this one.
This one is a single action
and it's ready to use.
And after use it, you just push it down.
That's it.
Before that you have to push the eyepiece in
and push it down, two action.
Now it's so much quicker
and ready to use.
2.8 to 4.5,
not bad at all, I think.
But if you compare to 1.8, yeah.
There's quite a bit of difference.
But it's it, for tiny sensor like this,
is it that big of a difference?
Let me just shooting around, get a feeling of using it.
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Oh look someone pose for the tram.
Now what you are looking at is not a video.
All of these are individual, 20 mega-pixel photos,
24 shots per seconds.
When you can zoom right in
and take 24 frames per second burst,
it is damn useful.
I know especially us photo geek would say,
"I don't need a tele-zoom,
"I just need a 35, or something like that,
or 50mm," because you get close to the action.
"If your photo is not good enough
you're not close enough" that kind of thing.
"I want to have a fast lens than a zoom-tele
that goes down to f4.5 or even slower."
But I have to say, it's still good
to have a 200mm.
It's useful.
It's useful at times, still.
It's the difference between you telling yourself,
"Oh, I don't need that, it's zen like."
Or, "I got that shot.
"I got that impressive shot."
As they say, the best camera is the one you have with you.
And you definitely can take this
camera with you all the time.
What's more you got a 24-70mm
plus, a 70-200mm lens with you.
All the time.
Especially, it still maintain f/4 at 100mm.
And this is the full zoom range.
Tracking and auto-focus.
24 frame per second burst is in fact
the same as the previous RX100 Mark V
but now up to 233 jpg
or around 109 raw.
315 face detection AF point with 65% coverage.
The auto-focusing and AF tracking
it just just feels like a full-size a7.
I don't mean you can take sport with this,
but when you only have this
and then you have a little bit of action shot,
you can do that.
However, it doesn't support UHS-II SD card.
Which means it could take a while
to copy all those file into your card.
You can't access some of the menu setting during this time.
But the good new is, you can still
keep shooting until the buffer is full.
You can have a AF area switch
between vertical and horizontal shooting
Same as some a7 and A9 cameras.
New AF Area Register.
And finally touch screen!
You can pick your focus point with the touch screen.
And Focus Shutter,
obviously it works for video shooting.
This is so good.
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Now talking about video shooting,
ever since RX100 Mark III
it have been popular among YouTuber and Vloggers.
I don't have one myself
but I have tried the Mark IV before.
Now what impressive is that this
tiny little body shoot really good 4K.
It's 5K oversampling with full pixel readout,
no pixel binning.
This is better than a lot of, like, DSLRs.
What I love about shooting video with this camera is
that it got a lot of features that those,
these kind of big boys, big brother, got.
It got Cine2, it got S-log3 if you want.
I don't really use S-log3.
I like using Cine2.
It still give me enough freedom
to colour correct in post.
It can now shoot S-log3 as well
but it just overkill for me.
For a compact camera,
the dynamic range is surprisingly good.
Now this is an extreme example.
Strong spotlight at the back,
still not too much overblown,
while maintaining clear shadow bits.
A new face priority in multi-metering features.
When you turn on, helps with backlighting situation.
Now what's not so good about this is,
maybe you can hear it now,
because it doesn't have a mic jack.
You can only use the built-in mic.
Well it is, I don't think there's another
compact camera that take good video, has a mic input.
Another thing, while not a deal breaker for me,
is that shooting 4K, it only got five minutes of limitation.
You can forget about shooting interview with this.
Now today is quite cloudy,
so this is okay without an ND filter.
Yes, this don't have ND filter.
When the Mark V got a built-in ND filter.
Not this one.
Maybe somebody can,
maybe somebody would release an ND filter
that just, put on top of this?
Maybe.
And according to some people on the web say
that this still overheats shooting 4K.
I haven't seen this yet.
Uh, today is 30 degrees, quite hot here.
Not exactly the hottest day in Hong Kong.
I have been shooting 4K with this for half an hour.
It's not overheating yet.
Oh, it just start to give me overheating warning.
Look at that.
Okay, yeah, it do overheat.
But the auto-focus is good.
So good.
So much better than my a7SII.
I mean it's liberating when I can just pick this up
and then shoot 4K, really good 4K video right away.
By the way, they got these.
This is new as well.
This is a handle.
Yes the focusing really quite good.
This start... movie, record button, photo,
shutter button, and then zoom.
Connect with USB.
And it's a handle and it's a tripod.
Now you may see some of my footage,
maybe a little bit shaky because this
is simply a really new camera to me.
I look at the web, I saw, like, Sara Dietschy
She use RX100 for a long time
and her footage are really stable.
Last time I met her in New York,
she really just with her RX100 for her whole vlog.
So I was wondering is it, the way that I hold it?
So like this time I try to hold it a different way.
Now basically yesterday, I shoot it like this.
That's why those footage a bit too shaky.
After my research on the web,
I'm gonna try holding it like this.
Looks like this improve a lot.
So after all, the stabilisation may not be
as good as the a7.
Well, this is a really tiny camera.
But there is way.
There's still way to hold it steady.
Like now I'm walking.
Also, now if I switch it to full HD.
The stabilisation now included
digital stabilisation plus optical.
This is really the first time I trying this out.
Well similar to a7S Mark II, I have,
I love the low-light.
Low-light is pretty good on this.
Of course, the a7S II is brilliant.
This is not bad.
And I like that when I walk from outside to indoor
when it's suddenly so dark,
it won't suddenly become really noisy, really nice.
It still works really well
for a one-inch sensor, like this.
Now look at that.
This part is ar,
this part is,
pretty dark here.
Slo-mo feature is largely the same as before.
250 fps give you really sharp slo-mo footage.
500 fps, a little bit softer
and a little bit more noise.
Still usable for a lot of things.
1000 fps, the quality really suffer a lot.
But probably still good for Instagram.
I'm sure a lot of people would question
this longer but slower lens.
To me, the slower aperture doesn't really matters.
While 2.8 to 4.5 is not small at all.
After all, for one-inch sensor,
you're not getting much shallow depth of field, anyway.
Even with the Mark V f1.8.
Also the smaller aperture on this Mark VI
doesn't hurt the low-light capability either.
What I actually miss from the Mark V
would be the built-in ND filter.
Although, there's need to pull your hair out
because SONY is not discontinuing Mark V.
The new RX100 Mark VI is gonna be a new choice
for you, rather than a replacement.
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