Sony RX10 II Hands On Review - Slow Motion & 4k Goodness for Travel Photographers and Videographers 

Thanks!

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+Sharon McQuillan You have to dive into the menu to set the slow motion to 240fps and then turn the top dial to HFR (High Frame Rate) and then you can shoot. The Sony will automatically set your shutter to at least 240fps which is good. Your options will also be a bit limited in this mode.

Battery life is pretty much the same and it doesn't include a separate battery charger so you have to plug the camera in usb

Thanks for letting me know! At this point in time, even though my RX10 is a great camera, having a long life battery would be great. With my old Sony a57 I could practically shoot the whole day.

+artistlight Thanks! No, the speeds cannot be changed without stopping recording. You can't switch from 24P to 240 without stopping. And actually to go above 120fps, you need to enter an entirely different mode so the switch takes a little while

Hey, thanks. Yes, it should sync at speeds over 1/1000 sec though I have not personally tested this.

+Jacob Guerrero You can only record 2 seconds in the high frame rate mode of 240fps and higher. Of course 2 seconds even at 240fps is 10 seconds of footage when slowed to 24fps. No, there is no mode to just only record the last 2 seconds. In fact, just recording HFR is a pain and requires a special mode, requires you to go into a standby where no adjustments can be made, and then record a 2 second clip.

Ok. I had seen some images of the cameras screen with a "after trigger and before trigger" I assumed it was for my question. Thanks again

+Jacob Guerrero hmm... I did not notice that but it does sound like it could be what you are talking about.

+photographerjonathan They are very similar but you have more buttons and dials on the RX10. It's much easier to use if you shoot manually. On the RX10, you can use the lens dial to control aperture, the top thumb dial for shutter (that took getting used to) and the bottom thumb dial for ISO. Good luck making fast changes on the RX100...especially without a touch screen. Quality wise they are pretty much equal.

+Andrew Scrogham Hey. The nice thing about the RX10 is you get a constant f2.8 aperture throughout the entire zoom range which is crazy. Thus it tends to be a bit better than most other compacts which generally increase the aperture to around f5.6 which gets very little light and makes it tough to get thin depth of field. If you were going to pair the GX8 with some great f2.8 zooms, the GX8 may be a better option. But if you were going to throw a kit lens on the GX8, you would probably be better off with the RX10. That's the same for other mirrorless cameras. The RX10 comes with a really nice f2.8 zoom lens so unless you are going to get a larger sensor m43 (or something along those lines) with f2.8 glass, I would go with the RX10. The RX10 gives you all the manual options you could hope for as well so novice and even more pro end users will enjoy the control.

+joseph c mathew You can't change focus while recording 240 but you can at 120fps. You won't get quite the dynamic range and definitely not the low light performance of the A7s because of the smaller sensor. Basically, an A7s with f5.6 lenses would give you the same or better performance. That said, the RX10 II can record higher frame rates, 4k internal, and still has the video options I need so the quality is great. I still love the shallow depth of field of larger sensor cameras for weddings though and it will be tough to get that look with the 1" sensor of the RX10 but the quality is still great.

+LearningCameras.com Thanks a lot!That was really helpful.

No, not without making significant changes to the lens. The reason the lens is a constant f2.8 and is as small as it is, is because the sensor is 1inch.

Yes, but the quality will be reduced

+sunnyspeed studio I'm going to go with the GH4 for that...it just has more controls and the touch screen that made shooting with the GH4 amazing. Plus I love the ability of using wide aperture prime lenses. The big difference is that the GH4 with a 24-70 & 70-200 f2.8 equivalent lens will cost way more and mean carrying 2 lenses so the big advantage to me on the RX10 II is the ability to have a great camera & lens for just over $1000 with a great zoom range.

+Dan Watson Thank you. How about the video quality from these two cameras?

+sunnyspeed studio Quality will be similar at low ISO though the RX10 II can go to 120fps at 1080p which is great. I tend to prefer the look and tone of the GH4 though and above 800ISO the GH4 wins. You do have full Slog2 as well on the RX10 while the GH4 only has log profiles if you purchase them for $100. That said, I don't use slog2 on the Sony cameras that often since they require me to shoot at high ISO and they take more work to recover than Canon log or Panasonics Cine D.

+learningcameras Thank you very much!!!

+sunnyspeed studio 4k video is better on the RX10II

+Michelle Conaway This is probably one of the best cameras around for what you are looking to do. There really isn't a better option without going to an interchangeable lens camera system with at least 2 lenses and that would definitely cost more. The image quality is not quite as great as some of your great DSLR or mirrorless cameras, but it's definitely good enough to take great images and it does so with a much smaller size and weight.

Dan Watson thank you!

+Jatmundar No, using slow motion is very limited and you can't do quite a few things while shooting at higher frame rates than 120

+Dan Watson Thanks for answering my question! I was hoping that function would still work with slow motion. I'm trying to research both the Sony RX10 III and the Nikon DL24-500 because I want a fairly inexpensive camera with zoom and slow motion abilities.

+Stanly John.W 2 seconds

I've done a lot a research on this camera and it shoots for 4 seconds in shoot time priority mode and 2 seconds in quality priority mode. In quality priority, it shoots 240fps at 1824 x 1026, 480fps at 1676 x 566, and 1,000fps at 1136 x 384. In shoot time priority it shoots 240fps at 1676 x 566, 480fps at 1136 x 384, and 1,000fps at 800 x 270.

Yes. There is a dial on the front. It will probably shake the camera a little though. This is where a touch screen would have come in handy for video

Thank you. ¿How many gigabite is needed for a 1 hour video ?

Not sure exactly. They usually have numbers in their manuals if you want to download it. It will be different depending on the bitrate you chose

+Fabia Kinzel Yes, but I believe the photo is a 4k screenshot so an 8MP jpeg

+Ran Bar-Levi It would be pretty close. The bigger sensor of the a6000 will definitely close the gap of the slower lens when it comes to depth of field but when it comes to low light results, the RX10 would still have a slight advantage as the A6000 is not quite better by 2 stops. In theory image quality would be better on the A6000 even with the slower lens though that particular lens is not the sharpest in the world.

True but for all my non zoom needs I can use a prime lens and get great results while the rx10 has no options.

+Ran Bar-Levi you dont get 1080p at 240 fps either

Love Bror Svensson true but for me personally slomo is just gimick.

***** a6000 do not have mic or headphone jack also

+Photographic Elements I had no issues when shooting in pretty dark places that needed 3200 & 6400 ISO

+ACE LOLLY This should work. I don't think it will output clean video while recording but you could obviously play back to a screen with no issues. The big issues I could see is that you only have 2 seconds of record time at 240fps and up so you better hit the record at absolutely the right moment. Also, you can only play back the slow motion in camera when using HFR functions which is 240fps and up so no 60p and 120p slow motion playback in camera.

thanks for the feedback(sorry I only spotted the msg now)! Seems you have to spend more to get what the customers will want to pay for. 2 seconds just wont cut it :(

+Dan Watson Yes, you can play slow motion in 60 & 120fps. Once you begin playing a recorded clip, press pause, then you will have buttons to forward or rewind in slomo :)

Thanks for that tip. Never knew you could pause,s and play back in slomo, although not really smooth. (Shot at 129fps, and shutter speed @ 1/240th.) Manual movie mode...

+907 CHANNEL Yes, it does actually

nice

+Dan Watson Do you use time of day timecode? I'm just trying to figure that out.

+907 CHANNEL I didn't use the timecode on this camera sorry

Skyflammable Productions I don’t like going above iso 800 on it but it’s really a personal choice

+PeeHooo Nope, 30min 4k video.

waxcpc Thank you, good to hear. :>

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+Bazza Thanks!