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hey guys this is Austin and today and here is a review of what might be the best pocket camera ever the Sony rx100 Mark 3 with smartphone cameras getting better and better buying a point-and-shoot has become a much harder sell but the rx100 does a great job of showing what's possible with such a small camera put it beside the original rx 100 and you'll see it's gotten a bit thicker but it's still much smaller and way more profitable than a typical DSLR one of the big new features is the pop-out viewfinder this is a very big deal for a camera this small as it allows you to shoot pictures and video on a nice and sharp 1.4 million TV f which gives you basically all the information from the LCD including the menus it pops up with a switch on the slide which powers up the camera pull the eyepiece out and you're ready to shoot all the one minor downside is that if you want to put the finder away the camera turns itself off around back is a nice and bright 3-inch LCD that you can angle downward or flip all the way up to get that perfect vlogging angle for a one-man operation like me being able to see myself when I'm filming is a huge help so I'm actually using the Sony rx100 Mark 3 to record myself right now and Sony has really pulled out all the stops on the video side several of my recent videos were shot on the rx100 and thanks to that reasonably large one-inch sensor you can get almost DSLR like depth of field and dynamic range a big improvement on the mark 3 is Sony's new X AVC HD 50 megabit codec giving you much more room to push your footage in color grading the standard 24 P and 30p footage is nice but you also get 60 P and 120 P modes as well the 60 FPS video looks fantastic with almost no loss in quality but bump things up to 120 frames per second and it crops in quite a bit and drops to 720p giving you very soft footage it can be usable if you just have to have that super slow-motion look but I can't imagine myself ever using it over the fantastic 60 P mode however if you're serious about video you're going to be limited to using the built-in mic on the rx100 now it's definitely not bad however unlike a DSLR there's no mic in Jack so you're pretty much limited to either using the rx100 audio or getting some kind of external solution going around and telling people that they're idiots wearing these in my opinion is a little bit much you also get pro video features like zebras and peeking which make it easier to get exposure and focus right and one hugely helpful feature is a built-in three stop indie filter this is an awesome thing to have as Indies are usually only found on very expensive pro camcorders that combined with the brighter lens allows you to shoot it much wider apertures than before allowing you to get those nice blurred backgrounds even in bright daylight speaking of the lens is nothing short of fantastic it's the equivalent of a 24 to 70 millimeter F 1 point 8 to 2.8 lens on a DSLR to put that in perspective the Canon 24 to 70 lens is well over $2,000 making it even more impressive that Sony managed to fit something even remotely close in such a small package all of this helps to make the rx100 mark three solid for pictures as well with 20 megapixels on a one inch sensor you're getting a lot more detail than on a smartphone which allows you to crop way in and still get a usable shot for sharing to sites like Instagram the lens is long enough to get nice portraits and it can also pull off a nice macro shot too the bokeh is also absolutely fantastic nice and creamy thanks to that new Zeiss lens and it's nicely controlled with minimal flaring even when shooting directly into the Sun low-light performance might not be able to touch a high-end DSLR but it's still impressive since the lens is fairly bright and has good stabilization you can get some nice shots at night but its no low light monster like its bigger brother the a7 s autofocus has always been good on the rx100 and the mark 3 is no exception it grabs focus quickly and accurately it also has a 5 frame per second burst which is better than some DSLRs in this price range the Sony rx100 Mark 3 might be the ultimate youtuber camera it's small enough to fit in a pocket and yet has good enough image and video quality to replace a DSLR for me so what do you guys think would you ever pick up an Rx 100 definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you in the next one