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with spectacular lens excellent full-frame sensor and very good image processing it's no surprise that the sony cybershot DSC RX one delivers fabulous photos of course for its $2,600 plus price tag I'd expect no less thanks to its sturdy magnesium alloy body and its really nice functional shooting design shooting with the Rx one is a fine experience as well it has pretty much the same interface as Sony's DSLR style cameras with a few exceptions like an exposure compensation dial and manual aperture ring that are common for this type of fixed lens enthusiasts compact the aperture ring feels really nice with useful feedback a few design quirks bother me including the heart to use record button and the awkward focus mode switch plus the flash doesn't tilt and I wish it had a bigger grip plus there's no manual focus peaking when shooting in movie mode which is really annoying the camera doesn't have any notable features like GPS or wireless connectivity but it has a full set of manual controls for both still and video and most of the cost of the camera probably goes towards the spectacular Zeiss 35 millimeter f/2 lens I do think it needs some sort of built-in viewfinder you can buy an optional one like it's great EVF or the Zeiss optical viewfinder but they're both quite expensive beyond the high cost of the camera it's not the fastest camera especially if you use autofocus but it's not irritatingly slow either the trade-off for the lens seems to be some sluggish driving for it if your primary criterion for buying a camera is image quality this wins for best compact photos look sharp colors can be accurate if you adjust the settings it renders a broad tonal range and the image processing for mid-range iso sensitivities is excellent you can shoot JPEGs as high as ISO 1600 and if you shoot RAW you can probably eat out a stop more video looks very good as well even in low-light there are a few more edged artifacts than I'd like though you can still get extremely good cameras like the Rx one that cost at least $1,000 less because they're equipped with an aps-c size sensor the photo quality isn't quite as good but for a lot of folks it's good enough the sony cybershot DSC RX one really isn't for everyone just a lucky few