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
Sony
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
Abstract: It's too expensive, but the RX1 looks super-cool, packs a punch considering its small size and contains everything you need to produce great images. The fixed lens dazzles with its versatile range of control options though watch out for costly accessories...
Sony's attempt at a fixed-lens, compact-style camera in the RX1 is an excellent one. It's well on the way to being one of the best cameras we've tested in terms of image quality, and has a control scheme that's easy to understand and use manually. While t...
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 is the smallest full-frame camera you can get, and while it pumps out gorgeous images, its price is likely to induce sticker shock....
Okay, it probably wasn't anything quite so fantastic, but we have to admit that we didn't see the RX1 coming. While Sony was justly praised for putting a large 1-inch sensor in the Cyber-shot RX100 last year, the RX1 takes this concept to an entirely new ...
Taking price out of the equation, one cannot fail to be impressed with the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1. Fitting a full-frame sensor in such a small camera is an achievement, but making it easy to handle and giving it such a high-quality finish is even more of...
Excellent image quality, superb build, manual lens rings feel super-smooth in use, "macro" lens position, f/2.0 aperture produces sublime bokeh, great LCD screen with white dot layer, loads of customisation options, in-camera correction and picture effect
Some chromatic aberrations in images, small degree of barrel noise, autofocus isn't the fastest out there, limited battery life, no lock/light for exposure compensation dial, no built-in ND filter, unavoidable expense, no viewfinder included (expensive to
Yes it's a lot of money, but the RX1 does feel like a special camera. The pairing of an excellent full-frame sensor with a superb and sharp f/2.0 lens makes for top-notch image quality, only really let down by some chromatic aberrations in images. Ther...
Small and beautifully made, Fullframe flexibility in a small package, Roughly half the price of a Leica M9
Still too big for all but the deepest of pockets, £2,800 is hardly cheap for a compact!
The Sony Cyber-shot RX1 is undoubtedly an exciting – if not particularly cheap – addition to the Sony range that will take the company into the same ultra-premium compact camera territory that Leica has made its own over the years. Without being able to ...
No touchscreen, Terrible battery life, Very high price
When this camera was announced it caused a lot of excitement. It's the world's smallest digital full-frame camera, and so it raised a lot of eyebrows. Image quality is superb, but there are a fair few limitations that mean this camera could never be desc...
Full frame in small package; good corner and edge sharpness
Expensive and heavy for a compact camera
The RX1 magic lies in the fact that it is small, solid, and hassle free. Also, the image quality is superb, and the build of the lens is solid; the aperture, focus and the image quality is all Zeiss....
