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Is a Sony RX100 MkIII which I've owned since the beginning of December 2017, a used model. V_R has owned one of these for some time now but it's a new one for me and I'm still getting used to it.
One thing I found was that some of the file formats the camera stores pictures in are pretty much exclusive to Sony and my rather old version of Photoshop (CS5) won't open one of the file formats - ARW - which is Sony's version of RAW images.
It also shoots video in three different file formats - mp4, AVCHD & XAVC S. I took some footage at Christmas time in the AVCHD format and couldn't post it on Facebook or open it in some software.
So the next video footage I took I made in mp4 and that played back fine just about anywhere. I was also very pleased at the camera's ability to take video footage in low light conditions, it far outshines my former compact camera, a Canon G19, in this respect.
I'll attempt to post an example of captured mp4 video in this thread. EDIT: Can't do, I'm afraid, Forum doesn't support *.mp4 attachments.
And here's some pictures taken with the Sony, the night time ones are taken in Night Time Scene without Tripod mode and the rest are taken on full auto setting. I haven't had much time to experiment yet but from what I've seen so far I am liking this very compact camera.
Pix below walking home from watering hole on the 6th and a bike ride along my usual stretch today 10th. Images reduced from 4864 to 800 pixels width for posting.
The Thames was at low tide late this afternoon and there is a picture of the Deptford Mission included below. There's a large hall area just inside the front door of the mission and in there I compiled a feature story for the newspaper I was working on in 1970. It was about disabled kids in wheelchairs playing Badminton and for my trouble I received my very first by-line in the newspapers' centre spread.
The Mission's still there and so am I...
One thing I found was that some of the file formats the camera stores pictures in are pretty much exclusive to Sony and my rather old version of Photoshop (CS5) won't open one of the file formats - ARW - which is Sony's version of RAW images.
It also shoots video in three different file formats - mp4, AVCHD & XAVC S. I took some footage at Christmas time in the AVCHD format and couldn't post it on Facebook or open it in some software.
So the next video footage I took I made in mp4 and that played back fine just about anywhere. I was also very pleased at the camera's ability to take video footage in low light conditions, it far outshines my former compact camera, a Canon G19, in this respect.
I'll attempt to post an example of captured mp4 video in this thread. EDIT: Can't do, I'm afraid, Forum doesn't support *.mp4 attachments.
And here's some pictures taken with the Sony, the night time ones are taken in Night Time Scene without Tripod mode and the rest are taken on full auto setting. I haven't had much time to experiment yet but from what I've seen so far I am liking this very compact camera.
Pix below walking home from watering hole on the 6th and a bike ride along my usual stretch today 10th. Images reduced from 4864 to 800 pixels width for posting.
The Thames was at low tide late this afternoon and there is a picture of the Deptford Mission included below. There's a large hall area just inside the front door of the mission and in there I compiled a feature story for the newspaper I was working on in 1970. It was about disabled kids in wheelchairs playing Badminton and for my trouble I received my very first by-line in the newspapers' centre spread.
The Mission's still there and so am I...
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