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The Best Compact Cameras – Top 3 Choices from Sony’s RX100 line

Compact Cameras – The best one inch compact cameras on the market for professionals and advanced photography enthusiasts who appreciate high quality image making as well as total control over their images yet need a compact camera when the big camera is just to difficult to carry.

Sony’s RX100 compact camera line up leads the industry in top of the line one inch sensor based compact cameras with nearly all the features of a DSLR.

Sony DSC-RX100M III Cyber-shot Digital Still Camera

Absolutely stunning picture quality, compact enough to take anywhere. Now your photos maintain soft background defocus even when zoomed in with the improved f1.8-2.8 24-70mm Carl Zeiss lens. There’s even a pop-up electronic viewfinder for eye-level framing and a 180 tilt screen for 20.1MP selfies. Lastly, the ultra-fast BIONZ X processor adds speed and accuracy for stills as well as beautiful HD video.

  • 20.9 MP 1″-type Exmor R CMOS sensor
  • 24-70mm equivalent F/1.8-2.8 lens
  • Continuous shooting up to 10 FP
  • Pop-up electronic OLED viewfinder with 1,440,000 dots
  • ISO 160-12800, expandable ISO 100, 125, and 25,600
  • 3.0 inch tiltable TFT LCD with 1,229,000 dot
  • 1080 60p/24p HD video with full exposure control (MPEG-4/AVCHD)
  • Raw/JPEG/ Raw+JPEG
  • Steady-Shot image stabilization
  • Rear control dial and customizable front control ring
  • Built-in WiFi and NFC for sharing and remote camera control

 

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV 20.1 MP Digital Still Camera

Inside the compact RX100 IV is the world’s first 1-inch stacked back-side illuminated Exmor RS CMOS sensor (1) — a remarkable advance in image shooting possibilities. Use it to reveal the wonders of up to 40x super slow motion (3), super-high-speed 1/32000 sec. Anti-Distortion Shutter, and handy 4K movies (2). Now Explore super-speed imaging beyond human vision.

  • World’s first1 20.1 MP 1″ Exmor RS stacked back illuminated CMOS,
  • High resolution 4K movie recording with direct pixel readout and no pixel binning, Super slow-motion movie3 HFR (High frame rate) up to 960 fps (40x)
  • Super-speed Anti-Distortion Shutter at max. 1/32000 sec. up to 16fps, Bright F1.8- F2.8 ZEISS Vario-Sonar T* lens (24-70mm), Fast Intelligent AF thanks to the new Exmor RS CMOS sensor
  • Retractable XGA OLED Tru-Finer viewfinder and Sharp 3″ multi-angle LCD, Simple connectivity to smartphones via Wi-Fi and NFC w/ camera apps, Dual record of 16.8MP photos while shooting movie w/ auto settings
  • Enhanced pro-video functions and NTSC switchable

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 V 20.1 MP Digital Still Camera w/ 3″ OLED

Introducing a new level of AF performance and speed to today’s compact camera market. The RX100 V boasts the world’s fastest AF speed1 (0.05 sec.)2, world’s fastest continuous shooting1 speed (24fps)3 with world’s most AF points 315 for a compact camera.

  • World’s fastest1 (0.05 sec.) hybrid AF system (contrast + phase)
  • World’s most – 315 phase detection – AF points on a compact camera
  • World’s fastest continuous shooting speed 1 at 24fps3 w/ AF/AE tracking
    20.1MP 1″ Exmor RS stacked back illuminated CMOS sensor w/ DRAM
    4K movie w/ direct pixel readout, no pixel binning and fast hybrid AF
    Optical Zoom: 3.6x