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a fast performer equipped with a relatively large sensor of bright fast lens and wrapped in a small sleek body it seems like Sony made a lot of intelligent decisions about design and future trade-offs when they created the cyber-shot DSC rx100 compared to many of its competitors it's relatively expensive but it really doesn't feel overpriced for what you get my only real problem with the cameras design is the lack of a grip that combined with the slippery metal body means I'm constantly in fear of dropping it and forced to grip it extra tightly which can get really tiring if you shoot one-handed a lot over and over again we've seen companies drop the grip to make the camera seem smaller or shiny or something or only to add it back in a subsequent generation it's nuts as with other cameras that have one I like the control ring which you can program to operate for one default setting such as Zoomer shutter speed and to use it in conjunction with the function button where you can program to access up to seven more settings in addition to the function button you can also reprogram the operation at the left and right navigation keys on the back dial as well as the center button and there's a memory recall option on the mode dial to select from three custom setting slots I found the movie button on the back a bit hard to press the location demands it because it's right next to the thumb rest and you don't want to hit it accidentally the rest of the controls have just enough travel to keep from being difficult to operate and one of my favorite things you can tilt the flash for better results while the camera has a nicely rounded shooting feature set I'd hardly call it expansive the camera lacks a hotshoe viewfinder and articulated LCD and even if you're willing to trade those off for the more compact size it also lags geo-tagging and wireless connectivity it does have features like soft skin effect in autoportrait framing which I kind of think are out of place in a camera for more advanced users I'd rather have the ability to manually invoke macro mode which as with Sony's point-and-shoots you can only do automatically for filter junkies the rx100 offers a full with a few very nice ones but you have to scroll through every variation a rotating cornucopia of 33 slots when there are really only 13 filters and that gets seriously annoying the camera produces very nice low ISO sensitivity shots with the lovely tonality the one possible issue I encountered is that bright highlights on yellows can get completely blown out and I couldn't recover the data from the raw files and Sony's image data converter software they might be there if you have better software the autofocus works well when shooting video and the lens is sufficiently quiet while zooming audio comes through loud and clear and doesn't sound too compressed or tinny the camera is also significantly faster than its competition for all but continuous shooting but frankly with viewfinder lyst models burst shooting is mostly a point in prey process anyway well the rx100 is pricey and imperfect it's still darn good it's got a compact elegant design generally excellent photo quality a bright fast lens and speedy performance all of which make it a great package if you don't mind spending a little more money I'm Laurie grinning and this is the sony cybershot DSC or x 100