{"id":6025,"date":"2012-09-30T01:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:53:54","slug":"test-driving-the-rx100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=6025","title":{"rendered":"Test Driving The RX100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left without a compact digital camera (no … the Leica X1 doesn’t fit into my pockets!) for some time, I got a little ‘poisoned’ when a good friend was trying to CONvince me to buy his Sony DSC-RX100 as he is moving to *evil grin* the Fujifilm X-Pro1. After reading some many good reviews about this compact camera … pretty much convinced that it performs darn well for a compact camera … I met up with him over beer recently.<\/p>\n

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My first impression of the RX100 … light and so darn hard to hold! The matt black body is pretty sexy but there just ain’t enough grip to keep a good hold on to. Hmm … small and slippery (for my fat sweat hands). I have some idea to solve that ‘problem’ but wasn’t convinced enough to part with my money. I ended up with the camera for a test drive over the weekend to see how well it performs.<\/p>\n

I fired (one too many) test shots since this morning and here are the test shots … straight from the camera … no Photoshopping except resizing for web.<\/p>\n

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ISO800 handheld … pretty darn good for a compact!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hmmm … pretty darn sharp photos from the RX100. Not sure if it is due to the beer I consumed just now … even after resizing (for web) … the photos still look too sharp (without sharpening in Photoshop). It is so sharp that it looks a little strange to me. Hmmm … or is it the beer causing my eyes to go nuts?!!<\/p>\n

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My little boss … as usual … got to be my model.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I ended up taking about 100 photos today … just testing out the RX100. LOL. Apart from the ‘I think the results are too damn sharp’ and the ‘damn it might slip off my hands anytime’ issues … I think the RX100 is one very good camera in a very small package.<\/p>\n

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I like this shot (above).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Any bad thing about the cam? It ain’t good for shooting birds. LOL!<\/em><\/p>\n

Some ISO1600 shots handheld …<\/p>\n

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Wish I could shoot this at f1.8 but at max tele … the brightest you can go is f4.9. I think the anti shake thingie works pretty well.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Beer & soccer!<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>All these test shots were done using the standard color setting. Vivid might be good for some of them but I am always too lazy to mess with these stuffs. I’ll see if I can find time to test out some of those fun ‘art filter’ effects in the camera tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long exposure at ISO100 with the camera resting on a garbage bin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Some more ISO1600 shots …<\/p>\n

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We wrapped up the day with an awesome dinner. Well … awesome for Fitzand and his mommy … because they had awesome seafood for dinner. I’m still okay … because I had a jug of beer all for myself. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

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Cheese lobster! Sounds good but I’m allergic to seafood.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Little boss enjoying life!<\/p>\n

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Crab! Ermm … I can’t eat these too.<\/em><\/p>\n

Check out the rest of the test shots below in the gallery. So do I like this camera? Of course I do! Will I buy this camera? Ermm … chances are … pretty high … I will. Let me go figure out if I can lower the sharpness in the settings, figure out a way to make the camera have a little better grip … and sell a kidney or two.<\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Left without a compact digital camera (no … the Leica X1 doesn’t fit into my pockets!) for some time, I got a little ‘poisoned’ when a good friend was trying to CONvince me to buy his Sony DSC-RX100 as he is moving to *evil grin* the Fujifilm X-Pro1. After reading … <\/p>\n

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