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The range from 24mm to 70mm can easily be covered by phone cameras these days with their telephoto lenses - and the sensor sizes are catching up. RX100 vi and v
by jeswin 7y ago
The range from 24mm to 70mm can easily be covered by phone cameras these days with their telephoto lenses - and the sensor sizes are catching up. RX100 vi and vii go up to 200mm which phones don't have yet.
- hanklazard 7y agoTrue but with the longer lens, the RX has also gotten a smaller maximum aperture size, f/2.8-4.5 vs f/1.8-2.8 (1). I'd go with a Mark V for that reason despite the shorter focal length. 1. https://photographylife.com/sony-rx100-series-comparison https://photographylife.com/sony-rx100-series-comparison
- h0l0cube 7y agoLooking at that link, the Mark VI/VII has more stops of OIS, which is more important for point and clicks, especially when zoomed/shaky/low-light. The f-number isn't the aperture size, though it is affected by changing aperture. The values you quoted are related to the f-number at both the lowest and highest focal length.
- hanklazard 7y agoWhether you value OIS is more a matter of personal opinion. I don’t need to shoot at lower shutter speeds generally, especially with these Sony sensors which are pretty great at higher ISO. Point taken on f-number and aperture not being equivalent, but that’s getting pretty picky ... f-numbers are ratios of focal length to aperture diameter and so effectively do represent aperture size. The point is the smaller f-numbers will give a more shallow depth of field, and at this point, that property is one of the few advantages that a high-end p&s camera has over a nice phone camera (yes, I know some phones are faking shallow DoP in software).