Photographer's Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100

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.

When you select this mode, the camera makes quite a few decisions for you and limits your options in several ways. For example, you can’t set ISO or White Balance to any value other than Auto, and you can’t choose the

The box should contain the camera itself, battery, combination battery charger/AC adapter, wrist strap, two adapters for

However, if you are confident that the voltage and amperage of your charger match the requirements of the camera (5 V and 1500 mA), then that may be a good way to obtain an extra charger for the RX100.

the 2-second delay is useful when you just want to make sure the camera is not jiggled by the action of pressing the shutter button.

“Photo Creativity.” This feature, which is available only in the Intelligent Auto and Superior Auto shooting modes, gives you a simple way to dial in certain adjustments to the appearance of your still images and videos.

You can combine more than one Photo Creativity setting to achieve various effects. For example, if you activate the Partial Color effect using the rightmost block at the bottom of the screen, you can then move the highlight to the Color or Vividness block and change the color tint or the saturation of the color that you selected for the Partial Col

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

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