2012 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 Reviews

Sony RX100 is where the use of 1-inch sensor can be hailed as technological milestone, from the beginning, says the Sony Cyber-shot RX100, its seriousness. The band offset of the upper third of the camera subtly reminiscent of the Lexica rangefinder ethos without overdoing it. Note the Carl-Zees-badge and the name on the lens. The front lens element is concave rather than convex.

The ring around the lens rotates freely - without latches, unlike the S-series. But if the Sony RX100 is turned on, you hear clicking sound. As in the Tech Info section shows the lightning jumps on top of rocker mechanical support as we have seen on several new Micro Four Thirds cameras, as well as the Sony NEX-F3. There is tiny flash that is very effective at wide angles.

Since we are comparing to other cameras, it is important to note that the sensor in the Sony RX100, 1-inch design, essentially the same size as the Nikon 1-series compact system cameras. As Sony puts it, which makes the sensor approximately four times larger than the average 1/2.3-inch sensor. Many were upset that Nikon had compact system camera with smaller sensor than its CSC competition, but I think the compactness of the Sony RX100 more than compensated for any concerns about sensor size the Sony RX100 is observed when using the 1-inch sensor can be celebrated as technical milestone.

Sony finally did what they wanted so many of us: They have built camera in the pocket-sized with large sensor and bright lens. It is the Sony Cyber-shot RX100, and it will send to other camera manufacturers back to their drawing boards for next season. The Sony RX100 is  20.2-megapixel, 1-inch sensor behind bright 3.6x, f/1.8 lens, and wraps them in small body not much bigger than Canon S100.

In fact, the special magic of Sony RX100 is how close it firmly to the stronger points of the S100, premium of more successful bag of Canon cameras. For many of us that have camera in this particular category bag embodies the Sony RX100, what we do when we our cash laid down for the S100, LX5, or XZ-1 wanted: bigger sensor, fast lens and a small body.

Sony Alpha NEX-F3 Digital Camera

Sony Alpha NEX-F3 Digital Camera

Sony Alpha cameras have a distinctive shape - in other words, it is difficult to distinguish them! They are small and have a minimal amount of buttons or logos. The camera comes in silver, black or white.
The front has the Sony E-holder and the company, two lenses (18-135mm, 499 $ both in July arrivals), together with its growing selection of cameras on the announcement day. The key symbol on the front is an APS-C indicating the camera is the same size as much larger imager DSLRs.

On the reverse playback, and red-dot-film buttons together with a control wheel with center SET button and two buttons in the vicinity. Based on previous NEX cameras, it is safe to assume if you buy the kit, you are the body, 18-55mm lens, battery, charger, wrist strap and CD-ROM with image-handling software to get. The NEX-C3 featured a 16.2-megapixel sensor while the F3 16.1MP. The camera also is charged via USB.

Well, it is noteworthy that the recently announced Sony Alpha Digital Camera F3 machinations one of those where it is capable of professional-looking photo shoots despite his innards housed in a compact, pocket-sized casing is. This allows budding amateur photographers to the creative world of high-quality interchangeable lens photography without breaking her back in to explore the sensor is great to drink in a position to allow more light, whenever you want it to capture images, resulting in a pristine, low-noise images and crisp detailed if you wish.


Sony was definitely over the top of this round. There's a reason sports photographers with DSLR body, the cost of thousands phase AF use. Shutter speed range is 30 of a second.
After shooting, skating started a side show, literally. The lens has an optical Steady Shot (stabilization), which worked very well to eliminate blur.

The new NEX-F3 camera has the same space-saving design levels less than other models in Sony's E-mount and an extended family, 16.1 effective megapixel Exmore APS HD CMOS sensor, identical in size from sensors in the traditional DSLR cameras found.

With a diverse array of imaging technologies and features at an affordable price, the new NEX-F3 model strengthens our commitment in this rapidly growing market for compact system camera.

The NEX-F3 camera adds a whole new perspective on self-portraits with a 180 ° tilt LCD screen in a position, a first for Sony's E-mount camera line. The new NEX-F3 camera is the new car portrait framing function for generating high quality portraits quickly and easily. New lightweight 18-200mm telephoto zoom lens for Sony α NEX
It also has Direct Manual Focus, to give users precise control over focus settings, resulting in a clear beautiful images.

2012 Sony NEX-7 overview

Sony NEX-7 just 350 grams on the scale, the magnesium body is slim and handy. The camera system is thanks to the rubberized grip, well shaped and comfortable in the hand. The NEX-7 is available now (as of November 2012) only seven lenses. Admittedly, all lenses use SLT at the NEX, the large and heavy lenses, the camera is small but unwieldy. For use with lenses from Sony an adapter is necessary. Even lenses from Minolta and Konica (again, need an adapter) can be combined with the NEX-7.

Electronic Viewfinder :

To design selection, the NEX-7 is an electronic viewfinder. The viewfinder of the OLED screen is clear and bright, the individual pixels of the mini-screen is barely visible. Viewfinder and imaging are identical, an on-screen 3D-level permits shooting without tilting the horizon. Menu settings are made on the control screen that has a diagonal of 7.5 inches and 921,600 dots, is to fold it 80 degrees upward and 45 degrees below, but does not turn sideways. On a touch-screen operation, Sony has dispensed with. But all the visual effects and settings such as background blur are immediately visible on the LCD screen.

Built-in Flash :

The first camera has the 7-NEX version has a built-in flash and hot shoe for an additional shoe mount. The autofocus has 25 AF points, the light sensitivity between ISO 100 and 16,000, shutter speeds from 1/4000th to 30 seconds (plus long-term recordings) are possible. An image stabilization is built into the camera. The CMOS image sensor in APS-C format makes photos with a resolution of 24 megapixels, the focal length extension factor of 1.5.

Manual operation :

The Sony NEX-7 is characterized by an intelligent and sophisticated operating concept. Particularly well implemented: the two dials on the top can also be operated with one hand well. Both are individually assigned to a function as required. Aperture and shutter speed can be just as the ISO sensitivity manually - or the photographer familiar with the intelligent automatic.

Really fast is the shutter lag: During daylight, the test was 0.28 seconds measured, pre-focused, the delay is imperceptible 0.10 seconds. After triggering, it takes only 0.55 seconds to the NEX-7 is ready to shoot again. In continuous shooting mode is enabled, the camera makes at maximum quality JPG 3.24 frames per second - until memory card is full.

Photos with a resolution of 24 megapixels, many details are cracking and sharp. The dynamic range (difference between brightest and darkest point) is very high and brilliant color reproduction. The only disadvantage of the high-resolution chip: with increasing ISO sensitivity from 3200 to image noise (noise) is visible.

Full-HD video :

The video data is recorded in full HD with up to 50 frames per second (50p), sound takes on the NEX-7 in stereo. The HDMI output to send the video to the TV. Also in the video mode, the autofocus the subject focuses continuously, as will benefit by the automatic exposure controls. Like an SLR, it is possible to adjust exposure, shutter speed and aperture manually while recording video.
The lithium-ion battery for 1344 presented in the test shots. With the following storage media is working the NEX-7: Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, SD, SDHC, SDXC.