sony rx100...my impressions

[Ronald_H]

I have a little question:

Imagine you are in a Dark Place. Let's say you put the lens wide open and ISO at 1600, but that still isn't enough for a handholdable shutter speed. If you force flash in such a scenario will the camera expose correcty?

It's a neat little trick to bridge the gap between can't and can, without blowing out the scene. It works for example very well with a Nikon D40.

 

[GaryLH]

Ok up to 800 or 1600?

For me 800 no problem. At 1600 u start to c the noise algo intruding on the iq of the picture. I have used the camera in very dark restaurants @1600. The result look good enough. With any other p&s I would have needed to go to flash..

Normal daylight shooting, the rx100 has no competitor in my book in this category of small p&s with sensor below m43.

This website did the best job I have ever found in terms of showing effects of high iso. It compares same shot with different iso and even different cameras. Scroll down to the point where u c sub section on rx100 image quality.. About a page down from that is where the samples will be located.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-rx100/sony-rx100A.HTM

Cheers
Gary

 

[DXK]

Yeah, 1600 can look okay, but it can also look very digital camera-y, that trademark digital noise.

Very fun camera, especially for Daido Moriyama-ish snaps on the street.

 

[jsrockit]

I went and looked at it again yesterday and just can't get into it. Never thought I'd say this, but it is too small (and no, a grip won't help) and fiddly. Obviously a great camera if you can accept its ergonomics.

 

[back alley]

is anyone using the rx100 with a neck strap?
i have been using the included wrist strap lately...also used a very short neck strap for a while.

just wondering how folks are carrying it?

 

[back alley]

I went and looked at it again yesterday and just can't get into it. Never thought I'd say this, but it is too small (and no, a grip won't help) and fiddly. Obviously a great camera if you can accept its ergonomics.

it certainly takes some getting used to.
i have almost dropped it twice and am thankful i use the strap with it.

 

[sam_m]

the wrist strap is essential! I wish it was a little bigger to be honest.

here's something from a week ago, very harsh lighting but was able to get most of it back into range with the raw and lr 4.2rc:

 

[back alley]

sam, there are all kinds of lanyards in different lengths that fit the rx100...and they easily wrap around the wrist when needed.

 

[KEH]

Simply a wonderful travel camera:

London, just off Piccadilly. JPG converted to BW using Lightroom.

Kirk

 

[back alley]

Simply a wonderful travel camera:

London, just off Piccadilly. JPG converted to BW using Lightroom.

Kirk

great shot, so crisp!

i'd like some more, please...

 

[denizg7]

Simply a wonderful travel camera:

London, just off Piccadilly. JPG converted to BW using Lightroom.

Kirk

KEH are you the owner of the KEH outlet?

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Simply a wonderful travel camera:

London, just off Piccadilly. JPG converted to BW using Lightroom.

Kirk

At least here on my 21-inch monitor, that image looks AMAZING! As good as anything else I've ever seen here on RFF, sharpness-wise and tonality-wise. I've been wondering if I could use this little camera at low ISO for big landscape prints. Your image makes me think its definitely possible.

 

[denizg7]

great shot, so crisp!

i'd like some more, please...

are you a fan of the yardbirds?

 

[back alley]

are you a fan of the yardbirds?

are you on medication?

 

[Jamie Pillers]

For the Sony RX 100, wanted to see how hard I could push the RAW file in Lightroom (4.2) , when the photo was taken in horrible harsh lighting conditions:

Before:

After:

VERY impressive little camera! Thanks for posting this Before/After set.

 

[KEH]

great shot, so crisp!

i'd like some more, please...

Joe and friends,

Many thanks for the comments. I promise to send a link to my London gallery as soon as LR 4.2 is final -- in some of my shots I am sure that RAW processing will bring out some more detail and tones.

As well as becoming my default travel camera, I think the RX100 will find a place in my WDC street shooting. I will be free to put a fixed lens onto one of my bodies, and carry the RX100 for those shots when you really need something wider or longer.

Exciting times. And no, I am not the owner of KEH. My RFF name is just my initials -- but I definitely should be a part-owner given the profits (deserved) made on my trade-ins over the years.

More later,
Kirk

 

[denizg7]

are you on medication?

no i just thought you would be a fan of the yardbirds sorry to offend you

 

[denizg7]

Joe and friends,

Many thanks for the comments. I promise to send a link to my London gallery as soon as LR 4.2 is final -- in some of my shots I am sure that RAW processing will bring out some more detail and tones.

As well as becoming my default travel camera, I think the RX100 will find a place in my WDC street shooting. I will be free to put a fixed lens onto one of my bodies, and carry the RX100 for those shots when you really need something wider or longer.

Exciting times. And no, I am not the owner of KEH. My RFF name is just my initials -- but I definitely should be a part-owner given the profits (deserved) made on my trade-ins over the years.

More later,
Kirk

You're still cool , you have your own gallery in london , and i mean i would kill to have some of my pictures at a gallery.

 

[BillBingham2]

R U........

R U........

Get me thinking........

Are you doing any post processing on them? Shooting JPG or RAW?

I can't do everything I want with my GRD III. I miss my GX100 for 75 and frankly would like a lot longer. Part of me is thinking keep the GRD and pick up a Super Zoom rock.

VERY good stuff. I found the GX100 liberating having wide, medium and micro in one pocketable body.

Thanks.

B2

 

[GaryLH]

Details held up well when I check on a 46 inch samsung tv

Details held up well when I check on a 46 inch samsung tv

This last weekend I was taking some pictures of my wife's family.. All at base iso..

Selected a few to burn to cd to send to her relatives in la.. Before I packaged it up to send, I decided to check to make sure that the cd would work correctly since I do my work on a Mac and they use pc's.

Slapped the cd into a Sony blue ray player... There was a lot of details that I did not notice that was there even when I was looking on my 21 inch iMac 😀

I had some shots from my wife's Panasonic p&s on that cd as well. Blown up that big, did not hold up well at all 🙁. Need to c if I can get her to use the Sony rx100.

Gary