this is the new Sony rx100 Mark 6 can you tell the difference
okay what about now I'm Ben from Authentech and what you just saw is one
of the biggest updates and improvement Sony made to their new mark 6 its
predecessor the mark 5 which I actually made a full review video make sure you
check that one out later it had an optical zoom lens of 24 to 70 mil the
new m6 blows that one out of the water with the 24 same wide angle but zooms
into 200 millimeters that's some incredible reach for such a small and
portable point shoot camera
now unfortunately that extra zoom does come with a downfall the old m5 aperture
was at 1.8 to 2.8 the new m6 goes from 2.8 to 4.5 so that smaller aperture
might affect some of your low-light shots and even a bit less of that
background blur it's a trade-off I did a quick aperture test side by side m6
verse m5f 2.8 verse F 1.8 and here's the difference in background blur and
possible bokeh also here's a side-by-side of both cameras at about 70
millimeter at 4.5 verse F 2.8 honestly both look razor sharp and nice on each
one thing I got to remind myself this one inch mirrorless sensor 20.1
megapixels with a 24 Y to 200 millimeter lens is packed inside a pocket
point-and-shoot an uber portable camera body and there's a cost to this feature
we'll come back around to this at the end is it worth it another new and big
feature that a lot of us were asking for in the m5 it now offers touch focus so
now it's ultra fast and easy to tap the screen wherever you want your focus
point to hit and with that wide coverage 315 phase detection autofocus it should
grab and lock that focus fast and accurately which is nice and convenient
in this world of all of us shooting video on our cellphones we're used to
just tapping our screens for focus so it's nice to see this simple yet useful
feature in this camera unfortunately the touch screen doesn't
work in the menu system this is a bummer and I'm not sure why the next
improvement the m6 has over the m5 the tilting screen which I use all the time
now we can finally tilt a full 180 degrees 90 up and 90 down when we tilt
the m5 screen down it stops at about 45 degrees and I've almost snapped it off a
couple of times I'm often shooting in this up position with a camera pointing
straight down for tabletop unboxing b-roll shots yet you can't really see
the screen clearly with the m6 now we can fully
tilt it which is really nice and I'm thankful for it another new feature the
m6 can now shoot 4k HDR video as the name implies this will offer a much
higher improved dynamic range in all your cinematography and it's a great
feature especially for those people who have time and love to tinker with color
grading and correcting and post-production it offers more accurate
colors lifelike textures and it's all aimed to offer more real to life video a
few more smaller but nice improvements I like there's this new menu design
there's this tab for custom favourites for quick and convenient tweaking the
EVF used to be a two-step process but now it pops up and out in one motion
same with popping it back in the m6 uses the same batteries as previous models
this is nice if you already have a lot of these little guys already laying
around onto one of my favorite features of the sony RX cams it still offers the
insane high frame rate recording up to 1,000 frames per second I kind of want
to make a whole video on this feature when you slow light down 40 times
it's so cool watching how things and people and animals move all in the blink
of an eye
now sadly there's still one major downfall of this camera and it's what
everyone's saying there's still no microphone jack
my thoughts well Sony did this maybe to push people who really need good quality
audio into their next tiers of cameras like the alpha and a 7s lineup but then
sadly those cameras are losing the compact nosov this little camera I'll
say it anyway though I hope we can see a mic port and a hot or cold shoe added in
there next m7 model my other little complaint 4k video is still capped at
that 5 minute mark just keep this in mind so the big conclusion I see this
camera being a perfect fit for medium and large-sized youtubers and vloggers
having that massive extra zoom would open a world of new creative shots
I imagine travelers and bloggers the camera snaps insanely beautiful
photographs and incredible HD or 4k video touchscreen focus razor sharp lens
this camera alone could produce some really great YouTube videos and the
reason I say medium to large size channels the price isn't expensive for
these guys they go through these things like candy now what about the rest of us
public where $1,200 is still a lot of money well I see a lot of people making
the argument like what Casey said you can get all three of these for the same
price as this point you however there's a cost to having that same amount of
photo and video power that a DSLR offers pack down into a camera that can
literally slide into your pocket no DSLR is doing that and for a lot of people
shooting discreetly and subtly is important a point-and-shoot is a lot
less intimidating for both the shooter and people around it's a lot more
compact for traveling whether you're just heading to the local coffee shop or
traveling abroad to Cambodia sadly the m6 still doesn't offer that mic import
which is a bummer but for some vloggers bloggers and many others out there the
built-in audio will do just fine that huge optical zoom is gonna be a great
selling feature for many and honestly well done to Sony for offering some nice
improvements to this new rx 100 mark six if you want to check out more info
all the links will be down in the description huge thanks to Sony for the
lender unit and thank you guys for watching ring the bell to stay up to
date on all my future tech videos and until next time let's live on