I have recently had a chance to get my hands on Sony’s new little point-and-shoot, the Sony RX100. This video was done by my friends at Finderly, a product recommendation platform, in collaboration with DerStandard.at, one of Austria’s quality newspapers. That’s also why the video is in German, but I have subtitled it in English so everybody can understand. Please excuse the bad audio, they just refused to put a proper microphone on me 
… I was filmed with the Sony HVX10.
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Nino Leitner testing the Sony RX100 for Finderly
At $650, it’s pricey for a point-and-shoot, but with a 1″ sensor, an aluminum body and a 3.6 zoom lens that starts at f/1.8 (though it slows down considerably when zooming in), it’s great camera to always carry around with you, and it’s fully manually controllable.
Its biggest disadvantage for me as a filmmaker: It has only a 50p mode, no 24p or 25p mode – which means that all motion shot with this camera looks particularly video-ish. Yet it has a feature great for filmmaking: peaking! Something unheard-of in the point-and-shoot range.
The Sony RX100 is built very sturdy, it almost has the feel of an old Leica, and I think it really can take a beating (yet a tiny bit of black paint came off on a top edge after I used it a day, but nothing serious).
Peaking on the Sony RX100 – very useful for manual focusing, especially in the video mode
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