Sony RX100 VII in low light

[binky62]

Hi everyone,

I have a Sony RX100 III for traveling. I have loved it and it's flexibility. Sadly it has died and the expense of repairing it is the same as buying a new camera.

I would love a camera that is still small with a better optical zoom lens range. The RX100 VII seems good and I have found a grey market one for £720. The only thing putting me off is low light quality. Does anyone have experience with it in low light and is it really that bad?

Thanks,
Claire

 

[woof woof]

Hello Claire.

It might help if you can say what ISO you'd be using as peoples version of low light seems to vary.

Are we taking ISO 1,600 or 6,400 or higher and what do you do with pictures? Do you mostly look at whole pictures on screen or do you print and do you crop and if so how much?

 

[garryknight]

Hi, Claire
You could also ask in the thread dedicated to the RX100 as there are people there who use the mark VII.

Sony RX100

I like them so much I have two, a III and V. ;) The latter replaced the former, and I don't need to get rid of the version III. Two can come in handy when I do timelapses, and have two different points of view. As for being small and fiddly, it's a small camera, not much you can do. I had a...

www.talkphotography.co.uk

 

[Mintchocs]

DXOMARK shows the sensors as having similar performance. For an improvement in low light you would need a camera with a bigger sensor.
edit. I haven’t checked if the lens is the same on both cameras, so my comment is only in reference to the sensor.

 

[Dave Semmens]

@binky62 Depending on what you are looking to photograph I would say that image stabilisation would also play a part in this. If you are photographing none moving subjects then better stabilisation would allow for a slower shutter speed / better ISO. Has there been an improvement in the stabilisation from the Mk3 and Mk7?

The other thing is to figure out the best aperture - the tiny sensor does not need the F8 to F13 you would be using on a Crop / full frame sensor. Again - this would depend on how close the closest thing you need in focus is + the depth of focus you need). An example is this taken at F4, ISO 800 and SS of 1/100th. I think I could have got away with a slower shutter speed and thus improved the ISO as well. This is a hand held pano on the RX100 Mk3 and I have pushed the processing to get the look I wanted - but the image still remained very clean.

Corn for Lunch by Dave Semmens, on Flickr

Dave.