Sony has unveiled the RX100 Mark VI premium compact camera with a new telephoto lens that will make it a lot more interesting for travel photography. Rather than the Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 24-70mm equivalent F/1.8-2.8 T lens of the last model, the Mark VI packs a hugely longer 24-200 mm 8.3X zoom lens. That’s also over a stop slower than before, but Sony has massively boosted other specs to make up the difference.
As before, the RX100 VI is equipped with a 1.0-type Exmor RS CMOS sensor with a built in DRAM chip to maximize speed. It can can shoot at 24 fps with full AF/AE tracking as before, but now focuses in just 0.03 seconds compared to 0.05 seconds. Moreover, eye-tracking Eye AF focus is now twice as fast as before. That’s all aided by the 315 phase-detection (plus contrast-detection) AF points, and the same image processor found on Sony’s flagship full-frame A9 mirrorless camera.
Happily, the RX100 Mark VI is now equipped with a touchscreen that can handle touch focusing and touch shutter release, and flip up 180 degrees for selfie shooters or vloggers. Furthermore, it comes with 2.35 million-dot Tru-Finder OLED EVF with one-touch operation so that you don’t have to pull it out anymore. And as you’d expect, the RX100 VI supports 4K video, but it now also has HDR capability.
Sony introduced the RX100 V just a year after the Mark IV model, so we were getting impatient to see what it would do next. Now we know why it took so long, considering the significant lens and spec overhaul. The RX100 VI will arrive in July, but you can pre-order it on June 7th for $1,200.
Source: engadget.com