Disappointed & annoyed with Rx100... (just venting)

[bigeye]

Great shots in your flickr set! Hope that you're not stranded without a camera in Barcelona (one of my favorite cities).

There is something important to build quality in this. Consumer products disguise their construction quite well and keep cost down, while keeping comparison shopping features up.

Unless you take them apart and know what they are made of, it's almost impossible to guess their quality and ruggedness. They're not all the same.

-Charlie

 

[jky]

Well, rather oriented to wrong direction. You paid $700 for technology, lens and features not for durability.

It's like $30,000 car - you get more fuel economy than performance. Buy $300,000 and surprisingly, you'll get worse fuel efficiency (at first look).

The price don't reflect directly durability of camera unless it's designed being such. But then you get durable camera with slightly lower image IQ compared to regular camera of similar specs and price because of compromises in design. There's no free lunch, unfortunately.

Totally agree with this - "wrong direction". Nobody said it would withstand knocks and drops. What really disappointed me was the fragility of it however... it's hard to convey in cyberspace how soft of a drop it was (nope, not justifying dropping it either - totally my bad).

Oh well, out goes the LX5!

 

[Addy101]

It might drop once and fail, or it may drop a thousand times without ever malfunctioning. This is simply bad luck. It isn't evidence, it is not even anecdotal evidence....

Anyway, it is big bummer if it happens to you! Hope it can be repaired.

 

[lam]

Be happy it wasn't an RX-1 😉

(FWIW I just returned my RX-100 locally, nice camera, nice photos, but I Cannot STAND zooms, delay, delay, READY!)

 

[Matus]

What should I tell you. The display on the Sony RX100 which I bought for my friends as a wedding present died during their honeymoon :-\ - some 2 weeks after it was bought. The camera went back to seller and now is the waiting time for the repair.

Anyhow - these cameras are (or so I guess) because of their high-end electronics (compact zoom, IS, etc... - everything as small as possible) in a compact body more prone to be damaged on impact as a manual SLR.

Try to contact Sony - maybe you will be lucky and they will grand you repair for free.

 

[SilverPix]

This happened to me with a Canon SD880is one time. Dropped it from about 3 feet onto a tiled floor. Lens did pretty much the same thing and was obviously knocked out of it's helical track. I tapped hard on the front of the lens housing while lens was attempting to extend and popped it back into it's track, has worked fine since. Not sure I'd recommend that for a $600 camera, but maybe all it needs is a good rap on the lens.