Yesterday we took the kids to the Justin Bieber concert.
My kids are big fans and they had an absolute blast.
I usually have either my Leica M9P at my side but it has one achilles heel which is low light. Also, I didn’t think I would be able to follow the action with a manual focus camera. And I didn’t want to carry my heavy DSLR either.
So I ended up borrowing my brother @aminsabet’s Sony RX100
I took about 100 photos during the night and got a feel for the camera. Here’s my quick review.
• It’s very small. I don’t wear skinny jeans or baggy jeans. just normal cut jeans and the camera fit easily in my front pocket. made it very convenient.
• Concerts are typically pretty hard because you are either dealing with darkness and shadows or intense lighting which can blow out photos. The Sony RX100
I’m sure I could have taken better photos with my Nikon or Olympus em5. But both of those are substantially bigger than the Sony.
• The RX100 serves as both a basic point & shoot camera as well as offering full manual controls. It was quick & simple to change the aperture and exposure compensation during the night.
• The shutter is very fast & deadly quiet. The latter didn’t matter much in a concert setting but in a different environment it would make a positive difference.
• I like that you can charge the battery by just plugging into a standard mini USB cable. Much easier than yet another proprietary camera charger pack.
I’ll end this post with a few photos of the evening. I’m a big fan of this camera as a DSLR companion or if your primary camera is a mobile phone and you want something more capable.
