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For active travel, shooting in low light, sometimes - S90, S110, RX100, or 5Dm3?

Started Apr 4, 2013 | Discussions thread
B1ackhat Senior Member • Posts: 1,980
Re: For active travel, shooting in low light, sometimes - S90, S110, RX100, or 5Dm3?

Markus Stenberg wrote:

How do you find the user interface of RX100 in general? The few (old) Sony Cybershots I've played with didn't impress me much, but I'm 90+% Canon user anyway - perhaps I'm biased by that.

I have always hated the user interface on Sony Cybershots as well, but the RX100 uses an entirely different menu system. Supposedly it's similar to their DSLR menu system.  Anyway, although I still think Canon and Panasonic have more intuitive and better laid out menus, the RX100's is decent.  When you click the function button, you get a few of the more commonly accessed items such as WB, ISO, and DRO, which you cycle through using the wheel.  It's a little confusing at first as moving the wheel left spins the wheel on the screen right and vice versa, but I have mostly gotten used to it.  You can also customize this menu and add additional items if you'd like.  You can also customize the center button on the camera; I have set it to AE lock.  The front wheel on the camera works just like Canon's, but it is extremely slow to cycle through options.  If you want to get from a very slow shutter speed to a very fact one, for example, it takes quite a few turns of the wheel.

For what it's worth, I am extremely partial to Canon also.  I'm not a fanboy; I just really like certain things about their cameras (colors, AWB and exposure reliability, menu system, etc.).  Aside from the WB/colors on Panasonic cams, I'm a big fan of theirs too.  Next, I usually look to Olympus, Nikon, and maybe even Fuji.  Sony is always at the bottom of my list, due mainly to the overly aggressive NR and user interface.  That said, I still like the RX100 quite a bit and would recommend it.  Not to confuse the issue, but I would also recommend the S110 as the ISO 800/1600 performance is quite noticeably improved over the S90/S95.  It even has good color retention at the higher ISOs.  The downside here is that the IQ is that JPEG IQ is a step back at lower ISOs and the images really lack the punchiness of S90/S95 photos.  Of course, if you're shooting in RAW, these are both non-issues.

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