Sony’s newest addition to its compact 1 inch sensor size camera line, the RX100 VI, has been announced during last week, and we were lucky enough to take part in the launch event that took place in Venice, Italy. Together with the Sony RX100 VI A short flight to Venice and a longer boat ride right after, brought me to the hotel where Sony held the launch of their new camera. For the following two days I was running around with the new Sony camera, making occasional quick trips to Venice, with the aim to check how good it is for the casual Vlogger – as Sony is promoting this camera for “Life style”, Vloggers and professionals/ehnthusiastics shooters. Video related improvements of the new Sony RX100 VI over its predecessor are: 200mm ULTRA zoom Fast autofocus response time Tilted Screen S-log 3 and HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) picture profiles, plus, Proxy recording longer buffer time when shooting in high frame rate The 24-200mm zoom in such a compact camera is truly impressive, and the tilted screen is useful, although I personally would prefer having a swivelled one. I can report first hand that the autofocus is indeed fast and working well. As I did not shoot long video sequences during my trip, I cannot comment on the possibility of the camera suffering from overheating issues. The longer buffer time when shooting in high frame rate allows for recording longer slow-motion sequences, but on the expense of occupying the camera for much longer,...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 11 June, 2018