RX100 VII on Safari

Yep, Savuti is known for its lions ... there's even a book on it by the Joubert's and NatGeo.

Botswana is special. Did you get onto a boat safari in the Chobe River? We have delayed our Africa till and if Covid subsides. We've been a few times and Africa always calls to us!



Sorry ... my old Nikon in Uganda and Tanzania

Bart,

Yes, Chobe was more boat safaris for elephants, baboons and more.

Certainly on my list, but still nervous about air travel until covid is under control.

Great results,

I'm with Bill: better than I expected, and I own the rx100m6, and have been a big 'explainer' of CIZ since rx100m1 back in 2012.

Could you give us more info:

1. your settings/methods

2. link to the grip?

congrats!

Elliott and others if interested.......

I shot almost exclusively on S, shutter priority mode. The first hour or so when light was less I'd pick maybe 1/250 or even 1/160. As soon as more light was available I'd bump it to 1/500. In really bright light if action was or could take place any minute I'd crank it to 1/800 as higher I'd notice the ISO would start creeping up.

Shooting out to 200mm or more (using CIZ, Clear Image Zoom) the camera would open to max f4.5 but seemed to keep the ISO to 100 or maybe 160. I used AUTO ISO the whole time.

CIZ is explained in detail by some other helpful poster I found but can't find it now. Maybe search for the thread thread explaining it (was it you Elliott?)

If something was static (a scene more than animals) I'd occassionally switch to A mode and close to f5.6.

Anything higher would add diffraction as I learned from watching Sony Ambassador Mark Galer's Youtube video on the RX100 VII. He detailed how f4 on a 1" sensor is like f11 on a full frame camera and that's more than enough depth of field. Telephoto shooting you aren't going to have a lot of depth of field anyway.

The Small Rig I bought wasn't cheap (I think $50.00 USD) but seemed better built than the plastic grip ones for $30-ish ?

I bought it off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087RDWB64/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I also bought a genuine Sony BC-TRX battery charger and 3 more genuine Sony batteries.

Happy to answer additional questions

Hi sir, I'm Stefano from Italy. At the end of October I will leave for a trip to Kenya for safaris, sea etc. etc. I will be alone and I need to be light and thoughtless. I am not an experienced photographer but I would like to take a camera with me. I will probably have an Rx100 VII and a Lumix FZ2000 with me. Speaking of an RX100 VII, may I know which accessory I brought with you? Any recommendations?

Thanks

Stefano86TV said:

Hi sir, I'm Stefano from Italy. At the end of October I will leave for a trip to Kenya for safaris, sea etc. etc. I will be alone and I need to be light and thoughtless. I am not an experienced photographer but I would like to take a camera with me. I will probably have an Rx100 VII and a Lumix FZ2000 with me. Speaking of an RX100 VII, may I know which accessory I brought with you? Any recommendations?

Thanks

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Stefano86TV said:

Hi sir, I'm Stefano from Italy. At the end of October I will leave for a trip to Kenya for safaris, sea etc. etc. I will be alone and I need to be light and thoughtless. I am not an experienced photographer but I would like to take a camera with me. I will probably have an Rx100 VII and a Lumix FZ2000 with me. Speaking of an RX100 VII, may I know which accessory I brought with you? Any recommendations?

Thanks

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If it was me, then for safari I would not take any accessories with the RX100 vii, obviously, apart from a case of some kind. It doesn't do everything, but what it does it does very well.

Outstanding shots and great colour. Did you do anything post? Either way, a great ad for you and the RX100. I had pondered getting one mainly for sharp 4K video for my work, travel, air shows and my hobby of radio controlled aircraft - the latter two requiring good auto focus tracking. But the fiddly controls/small buttons of the RX100 (and RX10!) put me off and I spent 4x the cost on an A7S iii + 24-105mm F4 G. And to get the same zoom you can get with the RX100 VII I will need to buy another lens, so I have sacrificed pocketability for ergonomics.

After seeing your shots, whilst the A7S is outstanding, I wonder if I should get the RX100 as a second camera and to use for long shots rather than buy another lens for the A7S? How is the (4K) video from your RX100 IV?

Again, lovely shots and you're convincing me to go on a safari too!

Wow, what an amazing set of images to go with an incredible adventure. You have proved that once again you do not always need expensive cameras and multiple lenses to take good pictures that capture the essence of your experience. Thank you for posting your pictures and for sharing your camera set up. I have an RX10iv and have been wondering about the wrist strap instead of the normal camera strap, I don't think I need to add the small camera rig you have as the hand grip on the RX10iv is quite substantial. Take care and stay safe!! John

Sony shooters,

Sorry for no reply as I don't sign in much these days.

For those asking about accessories I bought for my safari with the Sony RX100 VII.

The 3 main things were 3 extra (4 total) genuine Sony batteries, the Sony wall charger and the Small Rig grip used with a simple JOBY wrist strap versus a neck strap.

I dropped the camera (along with my iPhone and Canon G7X II compact) in a discontinued old soft messenger style camera bag. I believe I posted pictures of the Sony Small Rig set in this thread before.

Compact gear can deliver great images!

Just one old guy's opinion

After your Safari, did you accumulate dust inside your lens ? I did, with only shooting in town, no extreme condition...

PhB53 said:

After your Safari, did you accumulate dust inside your lens ? I did, with only shooting in town, no extreme condition...

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Did you were it in your pant pockets? It could lint from the cloth.

No, always in a soft skin case. You don't have any speck on dust ?

No, not at all. Can you return on warranty?

No, they do not consider it to be a warranty issue. Currently, the photos are not affected at all, but I'm thinking that over time, if the lens is permeable to dust, other particles may enter and potentially reach the sensor... Other users have also mentioned this issue to me and have sent me a photo of their lens under light, and it's much worse than mine... Do you have a photo of your lens from the front?

No, I don't have one and I am traveling right now.

Just for the record, this post made me look carefully at my same lens RX100M6 bought in late 2018 and used quite a lot for overseas travel and locally. That's getting on for near 5 years of use now.

Bright LED light and careful peeping and no trace of dust inside the lens. It was a bit dusty on the outside of the front lens of course, but a small microfibre cloth soon removed that.

It always travels in a small belt pouch and at home it spends a lot of its time in my dry cabinet. No photo of it because there's nothing there to see.

Hi, can I ask the settings you used please? Or any you would recommend. Did you shot in Automatic at any time?

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Hi, can I ask the settings you used please? Or any you would recommend. Did you shot in Automatic at any time?

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Hi, I use P mode with aperture overide on the control ring. This works well in most situations. A & S mode are used for specific purposes, hardly never use full Auto mode.

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