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further complicating your buying decision for advanced compaq sony adds a third entry in its excellent consumer RX series the cyber-shot rx100 3 has a lot going for it including great video and photo quality a cleverly designed retractable electronic viewfinder and a much faster lens + generally excellent performance and it's all still wrapped in the same slippery but small body with a higher price tag I'm Laurie grinning and this is the sony cyber-shot rx100 3 where the rx100 to give it the hot shoe the rx100 3 taketh away in exchange gets this nifty and nice EVF which are tracks back into the body it's small but it's bright and quite usable unfortunately when you push the evf back in it turns off the power which is insanely frustrating because you have to push it in to shoot close to your body without blanking out the LCD and speaking of the LCD you can now flip it up for selfies as you can with Sony's other mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras that's a nice implementation Sony hasn't changed the fundamental design of the camera so my big complaint about the lack of a grip stands combined with the slippery metal body I'm constantly in fear of dropping it as with other cameras that have one I like the control ring which you can program to operate for one default setting now it includes step zoom plus there are plenty of other customization options including another extra button you can also tilt the flash back for better results overall the photos look is good and occasionally better than the rx100 2s it uses the same one inch 20 megapixel BSI sensor though it upgrades to the newer beyonds X image processing engine which delivers slightly better results you can safely shoot JPEGs up to about iso 1600 ISO 3200 if you're not real picky it's got a decent tonal range though like it's sibling it Clips highlights the color reproduction seems a little better though and it now has a neutral color preset option the video is excellent thanks to the addition of a higher bitrate xav CS mode it's bright saturated and reasonably sharp with no notable artifacts in bright light and relatively noise free and dim with the exception of startup time the camera performs quite well though I still find the autofocus system a bit too inconsistent that makes it not really effective Geoffrey shooting action despite its ability to maintain a 3.3 frame per second birth straight and the battery life is miserable carry a spare overall the m3 is a great camera but it's a little more nichy than the m2 and lots of folks are fine without an evf and the m2 has better battery life and a longer zoom range if the lens EVF or better video are important to you though this is the camera to be I'm Lori groanin and this is the sony cyber-shot rx100 3