Sony Cyber-SHOT DSC-RX10 II

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As I shoot most of my footage in s-log2, the built-in ND is virtually essential because of the increased ISO setting, so I opted for another RX10 ii. There’s also apps to simulate the effect of long exposures by combining multiple frames and ones designed to better capture light or star trails. It’s all good fun, but the question is whether most or even all of these should just be part of the standard camera operating system. After all most rivals offer built-in timelapse facilities, and Olympus continues to raise the bar for cunning long exposure options. GPS oder einen Touchdisplay zum Drehen vermisse ich bis jetzt nicht, da ich viel mit dem Sucher arbeite und bei der HX400V die GPS Funktion fast nie genutzt habe. The FZ1000 II is a speedy, responsive point-and-shoot. There is a slight delay, about 1.3 seconds, between turning it on and snapping your first shot, but it's in line with other electronic viewfinder cameras, including interchangeable lens models. You'll need to switch to standard continuous drive mode to allow the RX10 II time to reacquire focus between shots when shooting in AF-C mode. This slows the capture rate to 4fps for Raw capture and 5fps for JPG. The RX10 II showed an excellent hit rate of in-focus shots in our lab tests.

According to CIPA standards, you can expect to get about 290 images using the EVF or 440 shots if you primarily opt for the LCD for framing. The actual number of images you get will vary with how you use the camera—you'll get more if you enable burst capture. The RX10 II is powered by the same NP-FW50 rechargeable Lithium Ion battery as its predecessor. On a full charge it provides enough power for 400 shots if you’re exclusively using the Electronic viewfinder or 360 with the screen. Practically speaking, you’ll likely be using both so the figure will be somewhere in between those two numbers. The Sony RX10 II is available to buy now at Park Cameras both in store & online, as is the Sony RX10 III. Like the Lumix FZ330 / FZ300, the RX10 II has a built-in pop-up flash as well as a hotshoe. The built in flash is mechanically activated by pressing a button next to it and is raised well clear of the lens so you can avoid casting a shadow as long as you’re more than around a metre from your subject. It has a quoted maximum range of 10.2 metres. It’s good for subjects that are reasonably close and as a fill-in in poor light. Here’s a before and after example of how you can use it to add a bit of life to a subject on a dull December day. Even with the focus selector set to the AF-S position, the RX10 II will only work in AF-C or manual focus modes for movies. You can select from any of the AF area modes, but moving the AF area during shooting is a little bit of a chore as you need to use the control wheel or dial to position it and the chances of doing that without moving the camera or making a noise are slim. How much easier it is just to tap the Lumix FZ330 / FZ300’s screen to position the AF area.

Heft the Sony RX10 III out of its box and it’s fair to admit this one is a bit of a beast. With a body not much smaller than a consumer level DSLR, in its favour the Mark III at least manages to justify it bulk by bolting on a manually adjustable zoom lens with an equivalent focal range of 24-600mm in 35mm terms. This also means that the camera weighs over a kilogram in use, with battery and memory card inserted. Es sollte eine Kamera werden die 4K Videos kann und Photos in sehr guter Qualtät macht. Da ich viel in der Natur beim Bergsteigen ect. unterwegs bin sollte es keine mit Wechselobjektiven werden, da ich keine Lust habe diese immer mit zu schleppen. Sie sollte Staub und Feuchtigkeitsgeschützt sein, und natürlich nicht zu schwer. The fixed lens covers a 24-200mm field of view in full-frame terms, at a constant f/2.8 aperture throughout the range. It]s married to a 1-inch image sensor, which provides significantly better image quality than models like the SX60 HS and other superzooms that use relatively tiny 1/2.3-inch sensors. But Sony has managed to maintain one of the big strengths of compact cameras—macro shooting—with the RX10 II. It can focus down to 1.2 inches (3cm) at 24mm and 11.8 inches (30cm) at 200mm. Moving on, the Cyber-shot RX10 II’s mode dial offers the usual PASM modes, Auto, SCN, Sweep Panorama, Movie, Memory Recall and HFR, for the High Frame Rate modes. The addition of HFR is the major difference in mode options between the Mark I and Mark II, the former using the dial position instead for an additional Memory Recall mode. As before, you can start filming in any relevant mode by simply pressing the red record button, but by first putting the camera into the Movie mode, it’ll preview the composition frame.

but i still call myself a semi-pro, enthusiast, professional hobbyist etc not because of false modesty but because it's the simple truth! As before, there’s a C1 custom button on the top panel between the shutter release and the exposure compensation dial. This is now joined by a new C2 button at the bottom of the rear panel below the control dial. That’s to compensate for the loss of one of the custom positions on the mode dial to make way for the new HFR video modes.The improved video capabilities allow the RX10 II to directly compete with Panasonic’s FZ1000 (which offers 4K video albeit with Sony’s previous generation 1in sensor) and of course an increasing number of other models which also now offer 4k with alternative sensors. Indeed one of the more interesting rivals is the Lumix FZ330 / FZ300 which may employ a much smaller 1/2.3in sensor, but in turn delivers a longer zoom range at a lower price, and still with 4k video recording. While the RX10 II and FZ330 / FZ300 are aimed at different price points, they arrived for testing at the same time, so we thought it would be interesting to pitch them head to head to see what difference the sensor size and optical range made in practice. Read my full review to discover which of these two bridge superzooms is the best option for you. Very soon, I decided I would use two RX10's so that both produced closely matched colours and quality. At about this time, Sony released the RX10 iii with a 600mm (equivalent) zoom, so I was initially tempted to go for that until I discovered it didn't have a built in ND filter. A physical addition to this whopping lens between the RX10 II and RX10 III is a triple lens ring, enabling you to adjust zoom, aperture and focus with the twist of the dial - a nice improvement on the single focusing ring found on the other RX10 models. Another new button is the focus hold button, ensuring that focus distance is kept when pressed - alternatively you can choose to use this as a custom function button and assign it to do something else. Some may look at this and wonder why Sony haven't added more pixels with each follow-up model, but there's a good reason for this, and it's the same reason why the Sony a7S II only has 12 megapixels. The full sensitivity range is available for movies up to 12800 ISO and there’s an Auto ISO option that works in any of the exposure modes including Manual. Like still photos you can apply a selection of Creative Styles, which also provide manual tweaking of contrast, saturation and sharpness. You can also apply a selection of Picture Profiles which include S-Log 2 under profile 7 for fairly flat output that’s ready for subsequent grading – I’ve included some PP7 / S-Log 2 samples below.

While the size of the screen on the RX10 IV is the same as the RX10 III and both are tiltable up to 109 degree upward and 41 degrees downward, it is now also a Touchscreen - the first for an RX10 series camera, and introduces Touch Focus and Touch Pad functionality. There is also a new lower ISO sensitivity limit. Like the previous camera, the standard sensitivity range is from ISO 100-12,800,
but the expanded range is now lowered from ISO 80 to ISO 64. The lens remains the same as on the RX10, with a Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 8.8-73.3mm f/2.8, which is equivalent to a 24-200mm lens on a 35mm full-frame camera.

This means that while the RX10 II only offered an optical zoom of 8.3x, the RX10 III and RX10 IV offer an optical zoom of 25x. LCD Screen But for videographers, the FZ2500 with its fully-articulating touchscreen, built-in variable ND filter and similar zoom range might make it the more sensible choice, especially given its lower price point (though we found its lens performance inferior to its Sony counterparts). You don't get the cool, super-high-speed frame rate options offered by the Sony cameras, but 1080/120p is not too shabby. Availability The 25-400mm lens delivers performance that's consistent through much of its zoom range. Imatest results show that resolution is solidly in our very good range for a sensor of this size and resolution from 25mm through 100mm. Edges aren't quite as sharp, but are still in the good range. There are multiple control dials on the top plate. The one at the left side switches between single, continuous drive, 4K Photo, and self-timer capture. On the right side there's the standard Mode dial, along with front and rear dials to adjust exposure settings. There are also two programmable buttons (Fn4/EV, Fn5), Record to start and stop videos, and the shutter release. The zoom control lever surrounds the shutter release, and the On/Off switch is nested at the side of the Mode dial. The electronic viewfinder is an OLED with 2,359k-dot resolution—that's an upgrade over the 1,440k-dot finder used by the original RX10. It's larger to the eye and sharper, making it one of the best EVFs you'll find in a fixed-lens camera. A good EVF is a must in a camera like this, and the RX10 II doesn't disappoint.