Photographer's Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100

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

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have faster transfer speeds than the smaller-capacity cards.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

the Photo Creativity feature is not available if the Quality option on the Shooting menu is set to RAW or RAW & JPEG.