Sony RX-100 User Thread

[mobelby]

Ray,

I'm no expert but I'll try and answer.

1. It's instantaneous
2. There are two stops to the zoom - 8.6x and 17.1
3. You can obviously move the spot focus around and use peaking to help. As soon as you move the focus ring it zooms in to 8.6 x and then you move the spot using the up, down, left and right parts of the control ring

Hope this helps

[retow]

Impressive Dr for a small sensor. in camera JPEG, vivid, contrast +1, saturation -1, sharpness +1
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[retow]

One more with DR stress for a small sensor.
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[retow]

Nr1: Optical zoom, 100mm equivalent, 20MP. Nr 2: "clear image zoom", 5MP, 300mm equiv.
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[Ray Sachs]

Ray,

I'm no expert but I'll try and answer.

1. It's instantaneous
2. There are two stops to the zoom - 8.6x and 17.1
3. You can obviously move the spot focus around and use peaking to help. As soon as you move the focus ring it zooms in to 8.6 x and then you move the spot using the up, down, left and right parts of the control ring

Hope this helps

Thanks - I think I get all of that. But when you're in manual focus, is there any sort of distance scale that shows you the distance you're focussed at? Most fixed lens cameras with manual focus seem to have some version of that, some with a depth of field indicator on it as well. Something so that I could just turn the manual focus control to set the focal distance at, say 2 feet, 5 feet, 10 feet, infinity, or something like that (maybe in meters rather than feet)???

-Ray

[mobelby]

Thanks - I think I get all of that. But when you're in manual focus, is there any sort of distance scale that shows you the distance you're focussed at? Most fixed lens cameras with manual focus seem to have some version of that, some with a depth of field indicator on it as well. Something so that I could just turn the manual focus control to set the focal distance at, say 2 feet, 5 feet, 10 feet, infinity, or something like that (maybe in meters rather than feet)???

-Ray

Yes, there's some sort of focal distance indicator in the bottom left corner of the display but as yet I don't understand the scale.
For example, it has shown values for me between 0.4 inches and 2 inches so I don't know how that translates into real distance or what DOF scale it's using. This is at the 8.6x magnification of the spot focus I was referring to above

[Ray Sachs]

Yes, there's some sort of focal distance indicator in the bottom left corner of the display but as yet I don't understand the scale.
For example, it has shown values for me between 0.4 inches and 2 inches so I don't know how that translates into real distance or what DOF scale it's using. This is at the 8.6x magnification of the spot focus I was referring to above

Hmmm, not sure what values like that would be for? Sounds like its worth checking one out in person once they show up in the stores. Then again, the LX7 should be announced in the next couple of days and the rumors are flying on that one (f1.4 lens, but not clear on the sensor - some say 1" and some say no change from LX5), so it looks like there will be some new compacts well worth checking out in the stores relatively soon...

-Ray

[mobelby]

Hmmm, not sure what values like that would be for? Sounds like its worth checking one out in person once they show up in the stores. Then again, the LX7 should be announced in the next couple of days and the rumors are flying on that one (f1.4 lens, but not clear on the sensor - some say 1" and some say no change from LX5), so it looks like there will be some new compacts well worth checking out in the stores relatively soon...

-Ray

The initial LX7 leaks are out - see below. The Sony met my needs and still does but now you have competition.
(FT5) And now full leak in Russia (with press release and LX7 pics!) | 43 Rumors

[olli]

Chinese Bells in the Sackler Gallery, Washington DC

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1/60th f4, ISO3200 RAW opened in Sony's IDC and some NR applied. Click through for the full sized version. The certain lack of sharpness is the full size version is down to my unsteady hand.

[Julien]

The initial LX7 leaks are out - see below. The Sony met my needs and still does but now you have competition.
(FT5) And now full leak in Russia (with press release and LX7 pics!) | 43 Rumors

What do you mean? From what I read here it seems worse than the Samsung EX2F.