Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 Review

June 10, 2012 Filed under Digital Cameras Posted by purwanto heri

Gadget Reviews – Sony has just announced its new best pocket camera of all time, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100. It shocks the Canon PowerShot S100 lovers since the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 offers 1.0-inch type Exmor CMOS sensor with 20.2 effective megapixels of resolution. To the interface, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 sports a 3-inch Xtra Fine LCD display that delivers high-resolution image viewing, featuring WhiteMagic technology from Sony. The sensor is much larger than its compact competitors, the traditional point-and-shoot cameras.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 Hardware, Performance and Battery Life

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 Review

The new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 is built in the stylish, aluminium chassis that gives the the ultimate balance of both form and function. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 is the first digital pocket camera that owns 1.0-inch type Exmor CMOS sensor having a resolution of 20.2 effective megapixels. It’s about four times larger than any traditional point-and-shoot cameras yet a moderately large sensor if it compared to the DSLR cameras. With the sensor’s larger area, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 is able to take more light in image capturing, resultsing beautiful yet detailed images and Full HD movie clips with very low noise. The large sensor is paired with a bright Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* fixed lens performing 3.6x optical zoom range.
Overall, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 seems like a well-designed professional camera.

The specs given to the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 makes the awesome digital pocket camera delivers impressive results even in different lighting conditions. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 can easily produce images with sharp focus subjects against defocused, smoothly-blurred background, thanks to the seven- bladed circular aperture feature.

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 is implanted with powerful BIONZ image processor that ensures clean, natural images with the optimum shooting response times. The chip also extends its sensitivity up to ISO 25600 for clear handheld images when you are facing low light conditions. On the fast-moving subjects capturing, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 can shoot at over 10 frames per second while the high-speed autofocus locks onto a subject in only 0.13 seconds.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100

With the a high-resolution 3-inch Xtra Fine LCD display that features WhiteMagic technology, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 boosts screen brightness using additional white pixels. Therefore, the users will not find any difficulty to see details as well as tones on the screen, in outdoors or under bright sunlight.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 Price and Availability

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 digital pocket camera is planned to be available globally this July for the starting price at about $650.
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