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# Full HD 1080/60p video with manual control 20.2MP 1-inch Exmor CMOS sensor 3.6x ZEISS optical zoom lens DSC-RX100

**Brand:** sony
**Price:** ₨164
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 📸 Elevate your everyday moments with pro-level clarity and style.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** DSC-RX100 by sony
- **How much does it cost?** ₨164 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sc](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/1153629-dsc-rx100)

## Best For

- sony enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted sony brand quality
- Free international shipping included
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- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Cinematic Full HD Video:** Record stunning 1080p/60fps videos with manual controls and dual recording for creative freedom.
- • **Pro-grade 20.2MP Sensor:** Capture ultra-sharp, low-light images with the large 1-inch Exmor CMOS sensor.
- • **Sleek & Portable Design:** Ultra-slim aluminum body weighing just 213g—carry professional quality anywhere.
- • **Versatile ZEISS Zoom Lens:** Seamlessly frame your shots from 28mm wide-angle to 100mm telephoto with premium optics.
- • **Intuitive Controls & Display:** 3-inch Xtra Fine LCD with 12M dots plus customizable dials for fast, precise adjustments.

## Overview

The Sony RX100 is a premium compact digital camera featuring a 20.2MP 1-inch Exmor CMOS sensor, a bright 28-100mm ZEISS Vario-Sonnar T lens with 3.6x optical zoom, and Full HD 1080/60p video recording. Its ultra-slim aluminum body and 3-inch high-resolution LCD make it perfect for professionals and enthusiasts seeking powerful imaging in a pocket-sized form.

## Description

desertcart.com : Sony RX100 20.2 MP Premium Compact Digital Camera w/ 1-inch sensor, 28-100mm ZEISS zoom lens, 3” LCD : Point And Shoot Digital Cameras : Electronics

Review: Clearly the Best Compact Camera Available at This Time - With the RX-100, Sony has raised the bar for compact cameras. This small camera provides most of the flexibility of a much larger, heavier, and more expensive digital SLR (dSLR) or digital Semi-Transparent Lens (dSLT) camera, or even of a somewhat larger, heavier, and more expensive Mirror-less Interchangeable Lens Camera (MILC) such as Sony's NEX line of cameras. The RX-100 allows the photographer to control the shutter speed, aperture, ISO, auto-focus area, etc., and creates RAW format images, in addition to the less useful JPEG images. Also, the RX-100 menu system is reasonably intuitive, and easier to manage than the menu system of Sony's NEX line of cameras, about which you can read numerous complaints. The RX-100's 1" sensor is roughly 3 times larger than the 1/2.3" sensor of the typical compact camera, and consequently provides much better image quality than any other compact camera, with the obvious exception of the Sony RX1 compact camera that has a full-frame sensor, and that is roughly 4 times more expensive. The RX-100 boasts a high-quality Zeiss 28-100mm lens, which at 28mm has a maximum aperture of f/1.8 that is very impressive for a compact camera. The RX-100 is a valuable addition to a serious photographer's toolkit, and is as well a viable entry point for the amateur photographer to learn and practice the basic principles of serious photography. However, you get what you pay for, and although the RX-100 sensor is superior to the sensor of any compact camera of similar size and somewhat similar price, its sensor is no match for the sensor of a full-frame compact camera, a full-frame digital SLR, a half-frame digital SLR, or a half-frame MILC camera. For example, the dxomark website provides the following ratings of the sensors for various Sony (and other) cameras, based on measurements of the Color Depth, Dynamic Range, and Low-Light ISO characteristics of those sensors: RX1 full-frame compact (93), A99 full-frame dSLT (89), A77 half-frame dSLT (78), A57 half-frame dSLT (75), NEX-7 MILC (81), and RX-100 compact (66). Viewed from the perspective of these DxO ratings, the RX-100 sensor is in a class with Sony's first dSLR camera, the A100 that DxO gives a rating of 61. So, on one hand, the RX-100 provides equivalent image quality to the A100 dSLR, but on the other hand, the RX-100 image quality falls far short of the quality of the A99 dSLT or RX1 compact. But even considering the superior image quality of a dSLT camera such as the A99, this large, heavy camera is of no use to you unless you are able to take it with you. And taking a large, heavy camera everywhere you go is impractical. So, finally, this issue shows the strength of the RX-100. It is small, light, and unobtrusive, so you can take it with you frequently, and you will have it available to take high-quality photographs, even if those photographs are not of the highest possible quality that you might obtain with a larger, heavier, and more expensive camera. If you insist on the highest-possible image quality in a compact camera, and you are willing to pay for that quality, consider the RX1 instead of the RX100. The dimensions of the RX1, in terms of height, width and depth, are 113mm by 65mm by 70mm, whereas for the RX-100 those dimensions are 102mm by 59mm by 36mm. The weight of the RX1 is 482 grams, whereas the weight of the RX-100 is 240 grams. So, the RX1 has twice the depth and weight of the RX-100, a fact that makes the RX-100 a less obtrusive compact camera. The RX1 has a 35mm f/2 lens, whereas the RX-100 has a 28-100mm f/1.8 zoom lens, but the aperture of the RX-100 lens is f/1.8 only at 28mm, and decreases steadily to f/4.9 as the focal length increases from 28mm to 90mm: f/1.8 at 28mm, f/2.8 at 35mm, f/3.2 at 50mm, f/4 at 70mm, and f/4.9 at 90mm. The RX1 costs $2,800, whereas the RX-100 costs $650. Sony provides a downloadable, 68-page English/Spanish "Digital Still Camera / Instruction Manual" in PDF format for the RX-100 that doesn't give enough detail to be fully useful However, if you perform a Google search, you will find a 227-page or a 261-page much more comprehensive "Cyber-shot User Guide / Sony RX-100 User Guide" in PDF format, that is similarly downloadable from a Sony web page, although Sony doesn't provide any apparent clue that this more comprehensive manual exists. And, if you need even better instructions on the use of the RX-100, you can perform a Google search for Friedman Archives and buy the 425-page "The Complete Guide to Sony's CyberShot RX-100", which, at a price of $21.45 in PDF format, would still be cheap at twice the price. One caveat that you can find on page 203 of the 227-page version of the comprehensive "Cyber-shot User Guide / Sony RX-100 User Guide", or on page 235 of the 261-page version of that guide, is the fact that connecting the RX-100 to a computer via the USB cable can be idiosyncratic. In particular, you may need to connect the USB cable directly to the computer, instead of to a USB hub. Also, you may need to disconnect from the computer any USB devices other than the RX-100, the computer keyboard and the computer mouse. Additionally, you may need to configure the RX-100 "USB Connection" to "Mass Storage" using the RX-100 menu system. This idiosyncratic behavior is the first such behavior that I have noticed in any Nikon, Minolta or Sony digital camera that I have owned, and I have owned more than a few. In conclusion, the RX-100 sets a new benchmark for compact cameras, and is well worth its price.
Review: I really like it and hoping to like it more once I've learned it's functions better, right now I'm all auto for this review. - UPDATE: A month or so later, unfortunately I haven't gotten to use this camera as much as I would have liked, it's winter in MN and I don't know about taking it from a hot car to a cold outdoor environment, they warn in the instructions against certain weather conditions causing condensation inside the camera. I have used it though and played with it on and off and have been learning it. USE SCN SETTING BY SPINNING ROUND DIAL ON LENS IT'S AMAZING FOR STUFF MUCH BETTER THAN AUTO ESPECAILLY MACRO SETTING. So now that I've learned a bit more about it and how to kind of fine tune it a litte, still don't know ISO and the fancy settings but I am blown away at the detail this camera can get and the beauty it captures so I bumped it up to five stars. I am questionable though that I can have a pic that is clear as hell till I blow it up as a screen saver and then it's all crappy looking. Kind of thought this camera could pull it off. Other than that and how many fifteen inch pictures does one make. Like I said it's a very impressive camera once you get the jist of it. OLD REVIEW: I really want to love this camera and I guess I do to some degrees. I have a lot of, if this and that were there or betters. I will start with I've only had it for a few days and I own two and have owned many other point and shoots as well as one that cost more than this by sony and was nicer about fifteen years ago. Back then they called their low light sensor zero lux capable and that cameras capabilities to catch moving images without blur was better, not sure what they've done for almost fifteen years. But I'm not here to rip this one down, ok maybe a little. Lets move to it's a great little camera if I ever finish the instruction and if it did what I push the button to do all the time instead of sometimes working with my push and sometimes not giving me the option, talking about the tracking, supposed to push center ring and it goe's from motion tracking to not, but it picks when it will allow you to do this, even though I've changed no setting and am still in auto mode, which so far is the only mode I've figured out, like I said and that's after reading half the instruction book. Oh and the zoom really blows bad, I thought I would be able to really zoom in on a distance not a chance, once the pictures taken if it's a good one, you can really zoom in on it but still haven't figured out how to crop it once I've gotten the zoomed pic I want it just sends me back to full pic. This is a very small camera and it's hard to hold it the way the rubber grip wants you to (buy a tripod like desertcart basic for 21.00 it will make a world of difference and has quick release plate which gives it something to hold onto while taking non tripod pics), I was surprised when I went to take a pic for the first time in my kitchen to test it and the left top side popped up with the flash and almost made me drop it, once flash is open there is like no place for your left hand to hold it and if you hold it the way I found your blocking off the lower bottom of the flash's capabilities. I immediately put on the wrist strap, which a thumb tac to pull it through will be necesary. It comes with a left and right loop to feed through so as to put on a neck strap, but comes with no neck strap, WTFuzz. The auto focus can be a fight, like it locks onto something you don't want and wont let it go, no matter how much you move the camera to reset it and that's really annoying because what you want clear isn't and what you don't care about is. The clear zoom is amazing and will take a fifty to a hundred foot shot and zoom in and take a truly clear zoom shot, just wish it worked over a longer distance. Night shot in almost complete dark is pretty cool, it will cast a red light on your pic and then with just one strand of christmas lights on one wall for room lighting, it gives an image pic taken of good quality, I'll call it a night vision pic, very impressive and even somehow sometimes comes out like a normal pic in normal light, none of my other cameras can do even close to this, I'm excited to see if this means it will take low light videos for my you tube channel, where my other cheap cameras just give me black screen. Like I said though my old fifteen year old sony did this as well, so this is not a new feature just one they have on what I call higher end camers, call it CMOS or Zero Lux Capable or whatever the tech term is but it's a nice feature. Moving on doesn't have 1080 p video shooting, if you want this spend a hundred more and get the rx100 ii model, I don't do my you tube videos in hd anyway they take way to long to load even a twelve minute clip and I don't know who else has this problem but you tube videos I watch just freeze up and stutter if their in HD on my comp that cost less than this camera. I just want to add the iso circle around the lens is very tight to move and granted I am still only half way through my instructions and in auto it seems to do nothing anyway, but a little looser would be nicer. Without flash on, you can take picture after picture quite quickly, but if you use the flash expect to do the waiting game and I mean wait for next picture to be able to be taken, but this is standard for all cameras I've ever used. Except an old SLR film camera with an expensive flash unit set up. I also recommend the square trade warranty with this camera it's like fifty bucks or so for four years and it's a good warranty, I've heard sony has a lousy warranty and fights you tooth and nail to get stuff done, and that's from reviews I've read on desertcart not my own experience as I've not dealt with sony warranty and they may be great so please don't sue me sony, just relaying reviews of the past that I've read. In last notes it's a sleek bad ass camera, I love it, just dont know if I'm in love with it and am hoping to get many great years of use with it. It's not a dissapointing camera by any means, just zoom and holdability keep me from a five star rating, in the you tube vids it seemed to have a super zoom and this is because when you have zoom at zero so to say the picture is tiny but to the human eye we see it at like fifty percent of camera zoom, so once the camera zooms in fifty percent now were both even and then the camera can go another fifty percent clearly and that's a decent zoom for not far away items but if you want the airplane close up with this I don't think it's happening unless you take it out of clear zoom mode, no moon shots or space photo's with this one anyway. I'll enclose a few pics just to give an example of what out of the box playing with it looks like and the photo of the city is a cool one, the city is 25 miles away but appears close right down my block for some reason. This is a good camera and I don't feel ripped off buying it, I tell everyone SLR quality pics in a point and shoot camera. The pic of the night time flag is with no lights on in my place and just the lights you see outside. The full flag has screen door so not great pic. The hanging flag is with screen door open and just glass door closed. I'll enclose a peanut tripod pic just to include on tripod pic.

## Features

- Approximately 20.1 megapixels , Exmor CMOS Sensor, 28-100mm equivalent F/18-49 lens, ISO 125-6400 Expandable ISO 80, 100, and 25,600, 3-Inch LCD screen with 12M dots
- Operating temperature:Approx. 0°C to 40°C (32F° to 104F°).1080p video, Steady-Shot image stabilization,Rear control dial and customizable front control ring
- Burst Mode (shots)-Approx10 fps,(VGA) Moving Image Size -640x480 30fps Approx3Mbps. Flash range:ISO Auto: approximately 0.3 meter to 17.1 meter (W), approximately 0.55 meter to 6.3 meter (T)
- Bright F18 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 36x zoom, Full HD 1080/60p video with manual control and dual record, ,Ultra-slim, sophisticated aluminum body. Extensive features in a sleek camera
- Dimension: 1016 mm x 581 mm x 359 mm, Weight: 213g (75 oz). Exposure Compensation: +/- 3.0 EV, 1/3 EV step
- 20.2 MP Exmor"CMOS sensor - extreme low-light shots
- Bright F1.8 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 3.6x zoom
- Full HD 1080/60p video with manual control and dual record, 101.6 mm x 58.1 mm x 35.9 mm, 213g (7.5 oz.)
- 3-Inch Xtra Fine LCD display with bright whites & true blacks
- Ultra-slim, sophisticated aluminum body

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00889ST2G |
| Age Range Description | Adult |
| Aperture modes | F1.8 |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9, 1:1, 3:2, 4:3 |
| Auto Focus Technology | Center, Continuous, Contrast Detection, Face Detection, Multi-area, Selective single-point, Single, Tracking |
| Autofocus Points | 25 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #23,445 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #182 in Digital Point & Shoot Cameras |
| Bit Depth | 12 Bit |
| Brand | Sony |
| Built-In Media | AC Adapter AC-UD11, Battery NP-BX1, Camera, Instruction Manual, Micro USB cable, Shoulder Strap Adapter, Wrist Strap |
| Camera Flash | Built-In |
| Camera Lens | Bright Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 28-100mm zoom range and 36x equivalent zoom |
| Color | Black |
| Compatible Devices | [Sony brand devices, devices with USB or HDMI ports, smartphones with Wi-Fi or NFC connectivity] |
| Compatible Flash Memory Type | SD |
| Compatible Mountings | Zeiss |
| Connectivity Technology | HDMI, USB |
| Continuous Shooting | 10 |
| Crop Mode | 1:1, 3:2, 4:3, or 16:9 |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 945 Reviews |
| Digital Scene Transition | zoom |
| Digital Zoom | 14 |
| Display Fixture Type | Fixed |
| Display Maximum Resolution | 4096 x 2304 |
| Display Resolution Maximum | 1228800 |
| Display Type | LCD |
| Dots Per Screen | 12 Mb |
| Effective Still Resolution | 20.2 |
| Expanded ISO Minimum | 100 |
| Exposure Control | Aperture priority, Manual, Memory Recall, Scene selection |
| File Format | RAW (ARW2.3 Format), RAW+JPEG, JPEG |
| Flash Memory Speed Class | Class 2 or higher |
| Flash Memory Supported Size Maximum | 128 MB |
| Flash Memory Type | SD/SDHC/SDXC, Memory Stick Duo/Pro Duo/Pro-HG Duo |
| Flash Memory UHS Speed Class | Class 10 (U1) or higher |
| Flash Memory Video Speed Class | Class 10 |
| Flash Modes | Off, Slow sync |
| Flash Sync Speed | 1/200 or 1/250 |
| Focal Length Description | 28-100mm (35mm Equivalent) |
| Focus Features | Contrast Detection |
| Focus Mode | Manual Focus (MF) |
| Focus Type | Manual Focus |
| Form Factor | Large sensor compact |
| Generation | 2 |
| HDMI Type | Type D Micro HDMI |
| Hardware Interface | AV Port |
| Image Capture Type | Stills |
| Image Stabilization | Optical |
| Image stabilization | Optical |
| Item Weight | 8.48 ounces |
| JPEG Quality Level | Fine |
| Lens Construction | 10 Elements in 9 Groups |
| Lens Type | Zoom |
| Manufacturer | Sony |
| Manufacturer Part Number | DSCRX100/B |
| Maximum Aperture | 4.9 millimeters |
| Maximum Focal Length | 10 centimeters |
| Maximum Image Size | 3 inches |
| Maximum Shutter Speed | 1/2000 seconds |
| Memory Slots Available | 1 |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 128 MB |
| Metering Methods | Multi, Center-weighted, Spot |
| Minimum Focal Length | 28 millimeters |
| Minimum Shutter Speed | 30 seconds |
| Model Name | DSC-RX100 |
| Model Number | DSCRX100/B |
| Model Series | RX100 |
| Number of Diaphragm Blades | 7 |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Optical Zoom | 3.6 x |
| Photo Sensor Resolution | 20.2 mp |
| Photo Sensor Size | 1-inch |
| Photo Sensor Technology | CMOS |
| Real Angle Of View | 11.31 degrees |
| Screen Size | 3 inches |
| Self Timer | 10 seconds, 2 seconds, 5 seconds |
| Sensor Type | CMOS |
| Series Number | 100 |
| Shooting Modes | Portrait, antimotion blur, sports action, pet, gourmet, macro, landscape, sunset, night scene, handheld twilight, night portrait, fireworks and more |
| Skill Level | Professional |
| Special Feature | Face Detection |
| Specific Uses For Product | Photography, Videography |
| Supported File Format | RAW (ARW2.3 Format), RAW+JPEG, JPEG |
| Supported Image Format | AVCHD, JPEG, RAW, Other |
| Total Still Resolution | 20.2 mp |
| Total USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Total USB Ports | 1 |
| Total Video Out Ports | 1 |
| Touch Screen Type | Capacitive |
| UPC | 027242856110 |
| Unit Count | 1 Count |
| Video Capture Format | MPEG-4, AVCHD |
| Video Output | HDMI |
| Video Resolution | FHD 1080p |
| Viewfinder | Electronic |
| Warranty Description | 1 year coverage for labor, 1 year coverage for parts |
| White Balance Settings | Auto |
| Wireless Technology | yes |
| Write Speed | Up to 60 MB/s |
| Zoom | optical |

## Product Details

- **Aspect Ratio:** 16:9, 1:1, 3:2, 4:3
- **Compatible Mountings:** Zeiss
- **Expanded ISO Minimum:** 100
- **Image Stabilization:** Optical
- **Maximum Aperture:** 4.9 millimeters
- **Maximum Focal Length:** 10 centimeters
- **Metering Description:** Multi, Center-weighted, Spot
- **Optical Zoom:** 3.6 x
- **Photo Sensor Technology:** CMOS
- **Supported File Format:** RAW (ARW2.3 Format), RAW+JPEG, JPEG

## Images

![DSC-RX100 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/610Aif0r4EL.jpg)
![DSC-RX100 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rLLGOAPYL.jpg)
![DSC-RX100 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/613Q3C9Rr9L.jpg)
![DSC-RX100 - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61OCw1gHPML.jpg)
![DSC-RX100 - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MCYCChUgL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: How exactly does the Lumix LX7K compare with the Sony RX100?**
A: Short version.... bigger sensor on the rx100 (better picture quality) versus faster/wider lenses on the lx7 (better low light performance and a more versatile zoom). Both are great cameras, if budget is not a problem go with the rx100. If you go otherwise with the lx7 you will get better Low light performance and a more versatile lenses for your money. Never the less... both are awesome cameras.

**Q: What is the closest focus of Sony RX100?**
A: Hi Decha,Minimum focus distance for the Sony RX100 is rated at 5cm (2 inches).Hope this helps!Keep shooting ~ zkot

**Q: Is it possible to get the tic tac toe grid onto the viewfinder? If so, how?**
A: Hi N., Sure, you can get the tic tac toe grid on the LCD screen. Push the "Menu" button, and scroll past the picture and video menu screens to the screen indicated by the gear icon. In the gear icon, screen 1, second line item is "Grid Line". Select that, and choose your grid style.Hope this helps!Keep shooting ~ zkot

**Q: Has anyone found a good, fingerprint proof screen protector for this camera? Ive only used ScreenPatronus in the past and have wondered about Clarivue**
A: Hi!I bought the following screen protector on Amazon for my RX-100 and have been very satisfied with it:Lexerd - Sony CyberShot DSC-RX100 TrueVue Anti-glare Digital Camera Screen Protector Highly recommended!Hope this helps.Keep shooting!zkot

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clearly the Best Compact Camera Available at This Time
*by P***D on March 10, 2013*

With the RX-100, Sony has raised the bar for compact cameras. This small camera provides most of the flexibility of a much larger, heavier, and more expensive digital SLR (dSLR) or digital Semi-Transparent Lens (dSLT) camera, or even of a somewhat larger, heavier, and more expensive Mirror-less Interchangeable Lens Camera (MILC) such as Sony's NEX line of cameras. The RX-100 allows the photographer to control the shutter speed, aperture, ISO, auto-focus area, etc., and creates RAW format images, in addition to the less useful JPEG images. Also, the RX-100 menu system is reasonably intuitive, and easier to manage than the menu system of Sony's NEX line of cameras, about which you can read numerous complaints. The RX-100's 1" sensor is roughly 3 times larger than the 1/2.3" sensor of the typical compact camera, and consequently provides much better image quality than any other compact camera, with the obvious exception of the Sony RX1 compact camera that has a full-frame sensor, and that is roughly 4 times more expensive. The RX-100 boasts a high-quality Zeiss 28-100mm lens, which at 28mm has a maximum aperture of f/1.8 that is very impressive for a compact camera. The RX-100 is a valuable addition to a serious photographer's toolkit, and is as well a viable entry point for the amateur photographer to learn and practice the basic principles of serious photography. However, you get what you pay for, and although the RX-100 sensor is superior to the sensor of any compact camera of similar size and somewhat similar price, its sensor is no match for the sensor of a full-frame compact camera, a full-frame digital SLR, a half-frame digital SLR, or a half-frame MILC camera. For example, the dxomark website provides the following ratings of the sensors for various Sony (and other) cameras, based on measurements of the Color Depth, Dynamic Range, and Low-Light ISO characteristics of those sensors: RX1 full-frame compact (93), A99 full-frame dSLT (89), A77 half-frame dSLT (78), A57 half-frame dSLT (75), NEX-7 MILC (81), and RX-100 compact (66). Viewed from the perspective of these DxO ratings, the RX-100 sensor is in a class with Sony's first dSLR camera, the A100 that DxO gives a rating of 61. So, on one hand, the RX-100 provides equivalent image quality to the A100 dSLR, but on the other hand, the RX-100 image quality falls far short of the quality of the A99 dSLT or RX1 compact. But even considering the superior image quality of a dSLT camera such as the A99, this large, heavy camera is of no use to you unless you are able to take it with you. And taking a large, heavy camera everywhere you go is impractical. So, finally, this issue shows the strength of the RX-100. It is small, light, and unobtrusive, so you can take it with you frequently, and you will have it available to take high-quality photographs, even if those photographs are not of the highest possible quality that you might obtain with a larger, heavier, and more expensive camera. If you insist on the highest-possible image quality in a compact camera, and you are willing to pay for that quality, consider the RX1 instead of the RX100. The dimensions of the RX1, in terms of height, width and depth, are 113mm by 65mm by 70mm, whereas for the RX-100 those dimensions are 102mm by 59mm by 36mm. The weight of the RX1 is 482 grams, whereas the weight of the RX-100 is 240 grams. So, the RX1 has twice the depth and weight of the RX-100, a fact that makes the RX-100 a less obtrusive compact camera. The RX1 has a 35mm f/2 lens, whereas the RX-100 has a 28-100mm f/1.8 zoom lens, but the aperture of the RX-100 lens is f/1.8 only at 28mm, and decreases steadily to f/4.9 as the focal length increases from 28mm to 90mm: f/1.8 at 28mm, f/2.8 at 35mm, f/3.2 at 50mm, f/4 at 70mm, and f/4.9 at 90mm. The RX1 costs $2,800, whereas the RX-100 costs $650. Sony provides a downloadable, 68-page English/Spanish "Digital Still Camera / Instruction Manual" in PDF format for the RX-100 that doesn't give enough detail to be fully useful However, if you perform a Google search, you will find a 227-page or a 261-page much more comprehensive "Cyber-shot User Guide / Sony RX-100 User Guide" in PDF format, that is similarly downloadable from a Sony web page, although Sony doesn't provide any apparent clue that this more comprehensive manual exists. And, if you need even better instructions on the use of the RX-100, you can perform a Google search for Friedman Archives and buy the 425-page "The Complete Guide to Sony's CyberShot RX-100", which, at a price of $21.45 in PDF format, would still be cheap at twice the price. One caveat that you can find on page 203 of the 227-page version of the comprehensive "Cyber-shot User Guide / Sony RX-100 User Guide", or on page 235 of the 261-page version of that guide, is the fact that connecting the RX-100 to a computer via the USB cable can be idiosyncratic. In particular, you may need to connect the USB cable directly to the computer, instead of to a USB hub. Also, you may need to disconnect from the computer any USB devices other than the RX-100, the computer keyboard and the computer mouse. Additionally, you may need to configure the RX-100 "USB Connection" to "Mass Storage" using the RX-100 menu system. This idiosyncratic behavior is the first such behavior that I have noticed in any Nikon, Minolta or Sony digital camera that I have owned, and I have owned more than a few. In conclusion, the RX-100 sets a new benchmark for compact cameras, and is well worth its price.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I really like it and hoping to like it more once I've learned it's functions better, right now I'm all auto for this review.
*by C***D on December 20, 2015*

UPDATE: A month or so later, unfortunately I haven't gotten to use this camera as much as I would have liked, it's winter in MN and I don't know about taking it from a hot car to a cold outdoor environment, they warn in the instructions against certain weather conditions causing condensation inside the camera. I have used it though and played with it on and off and have been learning it. USE SCN SETTING BY SPINNING ROUND DIAL ON LENS IT'S AMAZING FOR STUFF MUCH BETTER THAN AUTO ESPECAILLY MACRO SETTING. So now that I've learned a bit more about it and how to kind of fine tune it a litte, still don't know ISO and the fancy settings but I am blown away at the detail this camera can get and the beauty it captures so I bumped it up to five stars. I am questionable though that I can have a pic that is clear as hell till I blow it up as a screen saver and then it's all crappy looking. Kind of thought this camera could pull it off. Other than that and how many fifteen inch pictures does one make. Like I said it's a very impressive camera once you get the jist of it. OLD REVIEW: I really want to love this camera and I guess I do to some degrees. I have a lot of, if this and that were there or betters. I will start with I've only had it for a few days and I own two and have owned many other point and shoots as well as one that cost more than this by sony and was nicer about fifteen years ago. Back then they called their low light sensor zero lux capable and that cameras capabilities to catch moving images without blur was better, not sure what they've done for almost fifteen years. But I'm not here to rip this one down, ok maybe a little. Lets move to it's a great little camera if I ever finish the instruction and if it did what I push the button to do all the time instead of sometimes working with my push and sometimes not giving me the option, talking about the tracking, supposed to push center ring and it goe's from motion tracking to not, but it picks when it will allow you to do this, even though I've changed no setting and am still in auto mode, which so far is the only mode I've figured out, like I said and that's after reading half the instruction book. Oh and the zoom really blows bad, I thought I would be able to really zoom in on a distance not a chance, once the pictures taken if it's a good one, you can really zoom in on it but still haven't figured out how to crop it once I've gotten the zoomed pic I want it just sends me back to full pic. This is a very small camera and it's hard to hold it the way the rubber grip wants you to (buy a tripod like amazon basic for 21.00 it will make a world of difference and has quick release plate which gives it something to hold onto while taking non tripod pics), I was surprised when I went to take a pic for the first time in my kitchen to test it and the left top side popped up with the flash and almost made me drop it, once flash is open there is like no place for your left hand to hold it and if you hold it the way I found your blocking off the lower bottom of the flash's capabilities. I immediately put on the wrist strap, which a thumb tac to pull it through will be necesary. It comes with a left and right loop to feed through so as to put on a neck strap, but comes with no neck strap, WTFuzz. The auto focus can be a fight, like it locks onto something you don't want and wont let it go, no matter how much you move the camera to reset it and that's really annoying because what you want clear isn't and what you don't care about is. The clear zoom is amazing and will take a fifty to a hundred foot shot and zoom in and take a truly clear zoom shot, just wish it worked over a longer distance. Night shot in almost complete dark is pretty cool, it will cast a red light on your pic and then with just one strand of christmas lights on one wall for room lighting, it gives an image pic taken of good quality, I'll call it a night vision pic, very impressive and even somehow sometimes comes out like a normal pic in normal light, none of my other cameras can do even close to this, I'm excited to see if this means it will take low light videos for my you tube channel, where my other cheap cameras just give me black screen. Like I said though my old fifteen year old sony did this as well, so this is not a new feature just one they have on what I call higher end camers, call it CMOS or Zero Lux Capable or whatever the tech term is but it's a nice feature. Moving on doesn't have 1080 p video shooting, if you want this spend a hundred more and get the rx100 ii model, I don't do my you tube videos in hd anyway they take way to long to load even a twelve minute clip and I don't know who else has this problem but you tube videos I watch just freeze up and stutter if their in HD on my comp that cost less than this camera. I just want to add the iso circle around the lens is very tight to move and granted I am still only half way through my instructions and in auto it seems to do nothing anyway, but a little looser would be nicer. Without flash on, you can take picture after picture quite quickly, but if you use the flash expect to do the waiting game and I mean wait for next picture to be able to be taken, but this is standard for all cameras I've ever used. Except an old SLR film camera with an expensive flash unit set up. I also recommend the square trade warranty with this camera it's like fifty bucks or so for four years and it's a good warranty, I've heard sony has a lousy warranty and fights you tooth and nail to get stuff done, and that's from reviews I've read on amazon not my own experience as I've not dealt with sony warranty and they may be great so please don't sue me sony, just relaying reviews of the past that I've read. In last notes it's a sleek bad ass camera, I love it, just dont know if I'm in love with it and am hoping to get many great years of use with it. It's not a dissapointing camera by any means, just zoom and holdability keep me from a five star rating, in the you tube vids it seemed to have a super zoom and this is because when you have zoom at zero so to say the picture is tiny but to the human eye we see it at like fifty percent of camera zoom, so once the camera zooms in fifty percent now were both even and then the camera can go another fifty percent clearly and that's a decent zoom for not far away items but if you want the airplane close up with this I don't think it's happening unless you take it out of clear zoom mode, no moon shots or space photo's with this one anyway. I'll enclose a few pics just to give an example of what out of the box playing with it looks like and the photo of the city is a cool one, the city is 25 miles away but appears close right down my block for some reason. This is a good camera and I don't feel ripped off buying it, I tell everyone SLR quality pics in a point and shoot camera. The pic of the night time flag is with no lights on in my place and just the lights you see outside. The full flag has screen door so not great pic. The hanging flag is with screen door open and just glass door closed. I'll enclose a peanut tripod pic just to include on tripod pic.

### ⭐ Very disappointed with this camera.
*by E***R on July 4, 2013*

This is the first time (and last time) I relied solely upon reviews in Amazon to make a decision to buy a camera. I was in a hurry with a vacation coming up and saw all of the rave reviews, making claims such as how the camera took better photos than their Nikon D7000. I decided to buy it. My first comment is that I took it on a trip and kept it in my jeans pocket just like I have always done with pocket cameras. In the past pocket cameras have spent countless hours in my jeans pocket with no adverse consequence. Within 4 days with the RX100 I looked at the viewing screen on the camera and there was a scratch across the screen. My next complaint is the video. I have for comparison a much less expensive Nikon pocket camera that I bought about 3 years ago. From experience taking videos I know that you have to pan slowly if you want the audience to comfortably view a video. I found that with the RX100 if you panned, even at a slow pace, horizontal streaks would appear in the recorded video upon playback, which greatly detracted from the video. I also noticed that the camera was slow processing shots and would take much longer than my older Nikon pocket camera, causing me to miss shots. As far as the size of the camera, I think Sony overdid it making it too small. It felt uncomfortably small in my hands, and I just didn't like the feel of the camera. The camera has a feature which somehow transforms a shot that you intended to be in landscape mode into a portrait shot of one person in the photo. It would then produce for the final photo not the shot that you intended but instead a portrait shot of the one person. I even put it on Landscape mode to force the camera to take landscape photos and it still extracted portrait shots of the person in the photo, leaving out the rest of the shot. Another thing was that it was promoted how the screen had some special qualities which made it easy to view what you are photographing when out in sunlight. That proved not to be the case. I found it nearly impossible to see anything on the screen when I was outside in bright sunlight. Lastly, regarding the quality of the photos, it does not even approach the quality of a Nikon D7000, which I happen to own. From what I could see it was no better than the aforementioned Nikon pocket camera that cost half as much years ago. I tried to return the camera and first, since it was fulfilled through Amazon but used a third party seller, I was informed that there was a 15% restocking fee and that is payable even if the camera and all paperwork and packing materials are in perfect condition. Since my screen had a scratch I was told that there would be a 30% restocking fee. Then another person in customer service told me that it was damaged, all the way through to the LCD, and that they couldn't take it back. I looked this up and found that the seller was exaggerating the situation in that the actual LCD screen is protected by a plastic cover that can be replaced if you buy a new back for the camera. Also, some brief searching online revealed that the plastic cover for the screen for the RX100 is extremely easy to scratch, and that you should buy a protective film at the same time you buy the camera. At any rate, I ended up giving the camera to my daughter because I couldn't return it. It would be an understatement to say that I was very disappointed with this camera. To sum up, I received poor value for my money. Sony should cease production of this camera because it will hurt their reputation.

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