The BEST Compact Camera EVER Made? | Sony RX100vii in 2024

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[HenryTurnerphoto]

Thanks for watching! What’s your go-to camera for travel or big outdoor adventures where weight needs to be kept to a minimum? I’d love to hear your thoughts! Drop your comments below! 👇

[KenJJamesK]

I have sold all my DSLR gear in the last 3 months and purchased one of these as a walk around camera. Think I'm silly? Nope, I'm 82, had a stroke and have balance problems. Any of you around those years will understand. I still miss my DSLR but this little beast is pretty darned good. My style of photography has always been colour and contrast, not like Henry and his love of mist and mood, so, basically I'm a sunshine bloke. For that use, it produces very sharp RAW photos. I bought the $19.95 stick on grip from Sony to make it easier for me to hold....brilliant! Sure it is not a DSLR but it rings my bells. Ain't that what photography is about? Ken from New Zealand

[korea]

This camera is still very popular in Korea. A new camera costs $1240. Many people can't buy a used camera even if they want to. People don't sell it. This is one of the cameras I really want. I subscribed to your channel because it was really helpful. Thank you.

[williamruffell]

I have the RX100 V1 and l had the same reaction to it, as you have had. I also have a Pentax K1 which with lenses is so heavy that it pulls me over, whereas the Sony can be in your trouser pocket. I am 92 and can't walk far. The Sony has made me able to continue my photography without sacrificing quality. JR

[mark-hgw]

I have had the RX100vii since launch and love it. I have won photo club print competitions (500 x400mm) and digital competitions with images I have shot on it. People assume I have used a DSLR. I love low light shots, and people often say this is a weakness of the camera. I don't think so - I just run them through Topaz Denoise AI. Sometimes images can be soft straight out of the camera - I then use Topaz Sharpen AI. When I crop massively the images can be a bit small and pixelated - then I use Topaz Gigapixel AI. To me there is a workaround for all the issues. And one other thing, the image stabilisation is brilliant. I can hand hold 200mm equivalent at 1/15 second. As Henry says, pixel peep and you can criticise, but for real world use it is brilliant!!! But just my opinion obviously.

[grwler]

So glad you raise the issue about image quality, because it's so much better today but we spend less energy on the emotional feel of a photograph. The lighting, color and emotion is so much more important than resolution

[sigurdrille]

Thank you! Finally someone who appreciates this wonderful, albeit expensive, little camera. It has been my travel companion since 2021 and I have taken wonderful shots around the world with it. So versatile, so compact and pocketable, going with me just about everywhere. Too bad Sony does not evolve on it.

[washingtonradio]

I think the issue with even the best point-and-shoots and bridge cameras isn't that their images unacceptable but that once you have been spoiled by a DSLR or mirrorless with some excellent lens your standards are higher, possibly too high, and you might not realize the photo is actually quite good overall.

[mikesmith]

Thank you for reading my comments and an opinion. I think the rx100 is a great little camera that punches well above it's weight. However I watch a lot of your videos and have purchased some of your excellent photos etc. To me your take on things is honest and keep aiming high to hit the middle. I think you are one of the best bloggers or tubers to have sprouted in the last few years and being yourself is where you'll always excel. Being someone with integrity who imparts great wisdom to newer photographers and remotivates us older ones. Cheers.

[markjones]

The RX100ii has been my go to for fell running for about 8 years now, I keep it in a sandwich bag in the front pocket of my bumbag and it been through -17c snow blizzards on Foel Fras and even been used in light drizzle a few times and still works perfectly. It has a hotshoe which is handy, it was the one which came with an eye wateringly expensive EVF sold as an attachment which I only finally bought a few years ago in a nice cheap deal on ebay, but I love this little thing, it takes beautiful images, I love hiking and wild camping with my Fuji mirrorless gear but will always have an RX100 for running and when I want to go ultralight on a wild camp, I live just up the road from Tryfan, such a beautiful mountain!

[Benjamin_Jehne]

For my private images I clompletely switched to 1". I use to work with an A7RIII but in 2019 while job in Norway I experienced how nice these little 1" cameras are. Back then it was an Canon G5X MKII which I still love. The quality of the lens is not on par with the Sony but a 24-120mm F1.8-2.8 is really a nice thing to have. I bought the Sony RX100 VII in 2021 and since then, these both little cameras are my go to cameras. From my perspective the Sony has such a nice grade of details. I really enjoy this lens. Since we got all the nice AI stuff in Lightroom last year, you can push the files to an amount, where I don't get the feeling to miss out on something.

[loumason-walsh]

I have recently added the RX100 vi to my kit. It goes everywhere with me. I have a filter adapter for the lens so I can take the minimum amount of kit with me on my daily walks and also for street photography.

I love the feel of the camera and I have grabbed so many shots I would not have got without it. Having realised that I prefer a camera to my phone.

[ronp]

I've bought and sold this camera 3 times. Always enticed by the size and focal range, and I have taken shots that I really like... But too often I end up disappointed with the image quality.
One thing to keep in mind with a 2.7x crop factor is that shooting above f/5.6 you may notice image quality is affected by diffraction. Keep the f stops low, f/4 is basically f/11 on full frame!
I think a m43 point and shoot with a 24-120 might hit a sweet spot in size and capability.

[trishf]

The Sony RX100vii was the p/s I always wanted, but was stuck with a Lumix equivalent, where I had to sharpen nearly every image. Instead of buying the Sony I bought into the Olympus system, and quite honestly, have never looked back. My iPhone 14 gives me sharper images than the p/s Lumix, so I use that instead, although rarely! Glad you had fun with a point and shoot! They are not very obtrusive in public areas.

[lukasbabic]

i appreciated this honest review v v v much, especially the part about the image quality

[jA.]

I love how you are telling the good and the bad even though you like the camera. As a beginner what would help me would be to compare it to other cameras like a phone (like the Samsung Galaxy s24 ultra or an iPhone with zoom lens and a full frame camera with more megapixels to see where it goes in between.

[johnknee]

I still have my RX100iii from 2015 and I love it

[christopherpackart]

I bought one this year and like it. I got it mainly for when I couldn't take my bigger cameras or just didn't want too. I used it quite a bit in Japan to capture street photography.

[zeframHood]

For me it’s the Panasonic LX15, had it for years and very happy with it.

[ibloodyloveridingmybike]

Great video. I have the Sony RX100 V and thinking of moving to the RX100 VII. I give up the 1.8 and built in ND filter but I’d like the extra 100mm-200mm range. Still undecided.