Testseek.com have collected 122 expert reviews of the Sony Cybershot DSC-RX1 and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sony Cybershot DSC-RX1.
March 2013
(82%)
122 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(89%)
75 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Fullframe sensor
Stellar image quality
Excellent lens
Customization
Solid feature set
Smallest full-frame camera on the market
By a wide margin
Fantastic image quality
Excellent
Fast f/2 prime lens
Images are sharp corner to corner
Even wide open
F/2 with full-frame sensor gives incredibly shallow depth of field
9-bladed diaphra...
Great photo and good video quality in a camera with a nicely functional and fluid shooting design are the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1's highlights
Full-frame image sensor. Extremely sharp lens. Excellent high ISO performance. Fast burst shooting. Short shutter lag. Fast f/2 aperture. 1080p60 video capture. Top-notch control layout.
Excellent image quality and lens sharpness
Manual aperture ring
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Expensive
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Amazing image quality
Compact
Sturdy build quality
Lots of manual contols
Full-frame
24.3-megapixel sensor
Wonderful stills
Superior videos
Terrific f/2.0 35mm lens
Excellent 3-inch 1
229K LCD
Excellent image quality in both JPEG and Raw
Full frame in a compact
Well-built body
Dedicated aperture and exposure compensation controls
Exceptional build-quality - solid feeling without being too heavy
Superb high ISO output in both JPEG and Raw images
Essentially silent operation
Wide dynamic range Raw files
Pleasing metering and white balance results
Good level of customization to
Sharp
Detailed and lifelike images
Solid build quality
Effective distortion correction option
Excellent highISO performance
Brilliant corner and edge sharpness (once stopped down)
Superb (though not faultless) AWB performance
Prompt write times
Excellent LCD performance
The editors didn't like
Expensive
Expensive and even more expensive with optional accessories like an electronic viewfinder
Good but not exceptional video quality
Fixed
Single focal length lens
Slight tendency to underexpose
Produces unattractive bokeh when the subject is close to the lens
Focus can be slow under dim lighting
Subtle magenta/cyan tint across frame when shading compensation enabled in both JP...
It lacks a viewfinder
Autofocus is sluggish
And there's no focus peaking in video mode
And accessories are very pricey. No zoom capability. Slow to start and shoot. Lens shows some barrel distortion. No built-in viewfinder. External battery charger not included
LCD difficult to use in bright light
Movie record button awkwardly placed
Autofocus somewhat sluggish in low light
Relatively short battery life
Fussy manual focus
Slowish focus performance
Especially in low light. Detachable electronic viewfinder is mostly unnecessary. Disappointing video performance. A fixed lens is “a fixed” lens and offers few options. Average output from popup flash
Expensive with expensive accessories
Poor battery life
Inconsistent
Slow autofocus
No ability to zoom or change lenses
Battery life somewhat limited
Sony should supply an in-wall charger
LCD should tilt and be touch-capable
Poor placement of red-dot movie button
Autofocus speed not quick enough for fast-moving subjects
Autofocus struggles in low light
Significant vignetting
With any correction baked into Raw files
Multiple button presses required to move AF point
No built-in viewfinder (and accessory options rather expensive)
No focus guides for video shooters
Disappointing video quality even when in focus
Focus peaking in un-magnified live vie
AF can hunt and misfocus
Some lens distortion
Battery life
Aliasing effects (jaggies) with strongly defined details
Ease with which exposure compensation dial may be turned accidentally
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Expensive, expensive and even more expensive with optional accessories like an electronic viewfinder, good but not exceptional video quality
The target market for this camera is not clear-cut. So far, I've only met one person who actually owns the RX1 and, after a brief chat, it's clear that he's not a professional photographer. On the other hand, the RX1's image quality exceeds that of other ...
Battery life somewhat limited; Sony should supply an in-wall charger, LCD should tilt and be touch-capable, Poor placement of red-dot movie button
The more we mull it over, “suiting your vision” is an apt description for the RX1. This Cyber-shot is a wonderful photography tool and if you can imagine the shot, the camera will deliver it – within reason, of course. At this price, the RX1 is clearly ...
excellent image quality and lens sharpness, solid feature set, manual aperture ring
LCD difficult to use in bright light, movie record button awkwardly placed, autofocus somewhat sluggish in low light, relatively short battery life, expensive, fussy manual focus
All technical and pricing issues aside, one of the things I love about the RX1 is that, in this digital world, it brings me back to thinking before I shoot, much like the Leica M9 does. Sure, there are faster and more clever digital cameras than the RX1 ...
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Slowish focus performance, especially in low light. Detachable electronic viewfinder is mostly unnecessary. Disappointing video performance. A fixed lens is “a fixed” lens and offers few options. Average output from popup flash
Published: 2013-03-26, Author: Lori , review by: cnet.com
Great photo and good video quality in a camera with a nicely functional and fluid shooting design are the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1's highlights
It lacks a viewfinder, autofocus is sluggish, and there's no focus peaking in video mode
With a terrific lens and a great full-frame sensor, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 delivers the best photos we've seen from a fixed-lens camera. But that doesn't come cheap.
Published: 2013-03-08, Author: Jim , review by: pcmag.com
Full-frame image sensor. Extremely sharp lens. Excellent high ISO performance. Fast burst shooting. Short shutter lag. Fast f/2 aperture. 1080p60 video capture. Top-notch control layout.
Expensive, and accessories are very pricey. No zoom capability. Slow to start and shoot. Lens shows some barrel distortion. No built-in viewfinder. External battery charger not included
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 is the smallest full-frame camera you can find right now, and while it pumps out gorgeous images, its price is likely to induce sticker shock....
Quality: excellent, sharp, accurate colour capture.Why you'd buy the RX1: full list of features; nice lens; easy to use.Why you wouldn't: heavy price; could be confusing for the novice; with such a high-specced camera I did feel the LCD screen was far too...
Smallest full-frame camera on the market, by a wide margin, Fantastic image quality, Excellent, fast f/2 prime lens, Images are sharp corner to corner, even wide open, f/2 with full-frame sensor gives incredibly shallow depth of field, 9-bladed diaphra...
Fixed, single focal length lens, Slight tendency to underexpose, Produces unattractive bokeh when the subject is close to the lens, Focus can be slow under dim lighting, Subtle magenta/cyan tint across frame when shading compensation enabled in both JP...
Does it say anything revealing about a camera's printed image quality that when we printed an 8 x 10 at ISO 6,400, looked at it with amazement, and naturally assumed we must have somehow made a mistake and were in reality looking at ISO 400 instead? That...
