No
Possibly Never
Buy an RX100VII while they are still available.
No.
As mentioned already, "never" is the most likely reply.
Same replies as always since 2019.
Get a RX100 VII while you can. A M8 would probably have little improvements, USB-C and the latest AF engine would be the biggest additions.
Not even that would have been included, just USB-C. But Sony found a cheaper solution.
Yes, the way around the EU regulations was the RX100M7A to drop in-camera battery charging and provide a separate charger in the box. The sad bit is doubled, the camera appears to have lost the charging ability plus both the camera and the separate charger still have the older USB connector, never migrated to USB-C.
I paid $1300 for mine last year, but then they went up to $1500.
The M6-7 have 8.3x zoom. The M3-5 have 2.9x, while the M1-2 had 3.6x.
The M1 didn’t have an EVF, and the M2’s EVF was separate and optional.
It may become more available when the M7A arrives in the shops. That’s basically a degraded version of the M7, without in-camera battery charging.
Does it really not support in camera charging or are they just failing to mention it? Since it would cost some money to change the camera internals I'm going with the possibility of the latter until somebody shows that USB charging with the VIIA doesn't work. For what it's worth I never have used in camera charging with my RX100vii.
Yes, I'm just going by the stated specification. I've not heard anything from anyone who's got their hands on a real one. But if they’ve done it, I imagine that it was just a firmware update (not firmware available for download). I doubt that Sony has had to spend long testing it!
I've used it, but only occasionally.
"That itself" gets to do a lot of work here.
What makes you think that would keep R&D costs down? Which Bionz chip would your design use? Where would you fit the hefty new battery? How would you power the ventilation fan?
Why wait? It's never going to come. Sony addresses that market with this:
The Xperia-1M7 is cheaper than that.
Let me know when a Xperia is using a 1" stacked sensor in its entirety and not a portion of it.
It claims night photography on a par with Sony FF cameras ("The new 16 mm ultra wide-angle sensor is 2.1x larger than the previous model5 and the 24 mm lens features our revolutionary Exmor T for mobile sensor. The result is both cameras can deliver night shooting equivalent to full-frame cameras, with low noise and wide dynamic range"). Which 1" sensor camera manages that? It also produces better bokeh for portraits, has an UWA lens with automatic volume deformation correction, 2x macro
