Photographer's Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100

By default, your image will stay on the screen for 2 seconds after you take a new picture. If you prefer, you can set that display to last for 5 or 10 seconds, or to be off altogether.

To use the Photo Creativity feature, press the down direction button on the control wheel—the button that is marked with the plus and minus icon and the camera icon with three plus signs

GB SDHC card, just to have extra capacity and speed in case they are needed.

This very small camera comes equipped with a 1”- type sensor, which is twice as large as the sensor in the Fujifilm X10, and more than twice as large as those in many other small cameras in this class. The RX100 boasts 20.2 megapixels of effective resolution, and has a 3-inch (7.6-cm) LCD display with more than 1,000,000 pixels of resolution.

You should hear a little beep and see one or more sets of green focus brackets on the LCD screen, indicating that the subject will be in focus. You also can look for a green disc in the extreme lower left corner of the screen. If that green disc lights up steadily, the image is in focus; if it flashes, the camera was unable to focus.

I purchased a package including a generic replacement battery and a charger, shown in Figure A-4, for about $20.00 on eBay.

metering method or use exposure bracketing.

camera will never choose a shutter speed longer than one second in Program mode.

Generally speaking, you should try to set the ISO no higher than 800 if you need to ensure the highest quality for your images. You can still get quite acceptable results with ISO 1600 or higher, though, unless you need to make very large prints.