Digital performer 6 reviews7/20/2023 Sony’s PlayMemories Mobile app for Android and iOS does at least provide full remote control of the camera complete with live view display, and allow you to transfer images to your phone or tablet for sharing. Using PlayMemories Mobile you can copy images to your phone, or control the camera remotely So you can’t use your phone as a basic, always-connected remote release, or browse through your photos while your camera is safely stowed in your pocket or bag. Wi-Fi is of course built in, along with both NFC to quickly set up a connection with compatible Android devices. New to the RX100 series is Bluetooth connectivity, but it’s only used for geotagging your images, and disappointingly you don’t get any of the neat features it brings to the Panasonic TZ200 or Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III. Sony RX100 VI – Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Connectivity Likewise, there’s no in-camera raw converter for optimizing your images before sharing them. For instance, there’s no built-in intervalometer for time-lapse shooting, and with the demise of Sony’s PlayMemories in-camera apps, no way of adding one except by plugging an external controller into the micro USB port. This all makes the lack of any provision for an external microphone for high-quality sound even more perplexing.īeyond the camera’s remarkable core spec, it doesn’t sport much in the way of extras. There’s a raft of additional advanced features, including Hybrid Log-Gamma for HDR recording, and super-slow motion video at 250fps, 500fps, or 1000fps. It can record 4K 3840 x 2160 footage at 25fps with full pixel readout, which delivers highly detailed footage with no field of view crop. The small NP-BX1 battery is rated for just 220 shots using the viewfinder, or 240 with the LCDĪs usual from Sony, the RX100 VI has an impressive video specification. Crucially, this means it should be less affected by the resolution-sapping effects of diffraction, so should give sharper results at telephoto. It may be shorter than either the TZ100’s 25-250mm or TZ200’s 24-360mm equivalent optics, but it has the advantage of a usefully-faster aperture at the long end, at f/4.5 compared to f/5.9 or f/6.4 respectively. The Zeiss branded 24-200mm equivalent 8x optical zoom lens uses 15 elements in 12 groups, with 8 aspheric elements including 4 Advanced Aspheric lenses, and 2 ED glass elements. Just how many photographers will need this capability on a pocket compact is a different question. This results in a truly phenomenal continuous shooting rate of 24 frames per second at full resolution, with a 233-shot JPEG buffer, while continuously adjusting focus and exposure between frames. Sony has used the same high-powered Bionx X processor as in its professional Alpha 9, backed up by a front-end LSI that enables fast data throughput. But it also risks confusing buyers: the RX100 VI is a very different beast to the RX100 IV, and any other company would have used a clearly different name.Ī tiny flash unit pops up from the top-plate, released by a sliding switch In the process it’s made the first true competitor to Panasonic’s TZ100 and TZ200 premium travel zoom cameras. Impressively, it’s done so while retaining almost the same small body size – the lens barrel is just 1.8mm longer. In place of the 24-70mm equivalent f/1.8-2.8 zoom used by the previous three generations, it’s added a considerably longer 24-200mm equivalent lens, albeit with a smaller maximum aperture of f/2.8-4.5. With the RX100 VI, Sony made perhaps its most significant change yet. The cameras have remained consistently popular, and one will generally always show up on a list of the best Sony cameras. The cost has also shot up along the way, but Sony’s solution has been to keep every model on the market at tiered price points. Successive RX100 generations have maintained Sony’s technological lead, with the adoption of a tilting screen in the RX100 II, a pop-up viewfinder and large-aperture zoom in the RX100 III, 4K video in the RX100 IV and high-speed shooting on the RX100 V. With its 20MP 1in-type sensor giving vastly better image quality than the tiny sensors previously used in this type of camera, it made the competition obsolete at a stroke. When Sony released the original RX100 back in 2012, it revolutionized the pocket camera at a stroke. Sony’s sixth-generation RX100 sports a new 24-200mm equivalent lens
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