To a great many, every point-and-shoot camera has been practically the same thing in the last decade with little innovation. In the past few years, Sony has been hard at pushing the boundaries of what a portable camera is and the amount of technology it’s able to give to would be photographers. The Sony RX100 IV is one such camera that offers a 1-inch sensor in your pocket.
This not only is a great achievement on its own, but one that even many DSLR cameras don’t yet rival. Before giving this a further read, I’d recommend that you look over our RX100 IV feature guide and picture gallery for some context. Once finished with that, you can find a few preliminary reviews on the RX100 after the jump.
This increased speed helps explain many of the features Sony has wrung out of the camera: reduced rolling shutter, 4K video, high frame rate video, faster continuous shooting and Dual Record.
The new sensor also allows the Sony RX100 IV to provide for 4K video capture, and high frame-rate video at up to a staggering 1,000 frames per second. And there are upgrades in other areas, too — for example, a brand-new Organic LED display in the popup electronic viewfinder that now has double the dot count of that in the earlier camera.
The RX100 Mk IV is a fantastic point-and-shoot camera that quickly and easily makes great photos in any light, and its larger-than-most point-and-shoots sensor giving sharper, cleaner images than cell phones or most other pocket cameras.
While I haven’t had a chance to play with the RX100 IV myself, I can only say that I’ve been blown away by its predecessor and can only imagine the improvements Sony has made three years later. It’s also worth noting that the comments above are all from preview units and are preliminary reviews rather than fully fledged ones.
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Are you interested in point-and-shoot cameras like the RX100 or are you more likely to purchase a DSLR?