Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Sony RX100 Mark III: Amazing Point-and-Shoot Comes at Hefty Cost

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I haven’t owned a point-and-shoot camera in years. Since 2010, my point-and-shoot has been my iPhone. I suspect this is the case for a majority of the population. Flickr tends to agree; the top four most popular cameras are iPhones, and the fifth is a Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR


As I concluded in my Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 review, smartphone cameras are so good these days it’s practically pointless to invest in a separate point-and-shoot camera. Plus, your smartphone is always on you; a point-and-shoot is an extra device to carry around.



Smartphones may have displaced the low-end and even midrange point-and-shoot categories, but the high end remains a competitive marketNikon’s Coolpix A was almost perfect, fitting a DSLR-class image sensor into a pocketable form. If only it didn’t cost $1,100. Read more…


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