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Sony adds a superzoom option to their RX series

By Marcus Wong - on 1 Apr 2016, 5:58pm

Sony adds a superzoom option to their RX series

 

If like us, you loved the concept of Sony’s RX 100 IV and RX 10 II from last year but wished there was a superzoom option, then wish no more. Sony has updated the RX 10 one again, and now it sports a newly developed f/2.4-4 large-aperture 24-600mm (25x zoom) lens, allowing you to use one camera for almost all situations.

The new Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens is designed with eight ED glass elements, including one super ED glass element and two ED aspherical lenses. These lenses help effectively reduce chromatic aberrations in the lens, allowing the camera to produce images with high contrast and corner-to-corner sharpness throughout the zoom range. The lens design also includes the use of an advanced aspherical (AA) lens that allows the lens unit to be kept small while still delivering excellent quality.

A lot of quality glass has gone into the RX10 III's lens.

The lens has a minimum focusing distance of just 72cm at the maximum extension of 600mm (0.49x maximum magnification), allowing the RX 10 III to produce incredibly detailed tele-macro images. With Zeiss’s T* coating to minimize flare and ghosting, you can be sure that images taken with the RX 10 III will exhibit great clarity and true-to-life colors. 

Inside, the RX10 III again features a stacked 1.0” BSI CMOS sensor with DRAM chip that’s paired with Sony’s BIONZ X image processing engine. This pairing allows it to achieve an expanded sensitivity range of ISO64-12800 with stills capture, and the large capacity of the DRAM chip allows it store enough data to facilitate incredible slow motion recording at up to 1000fps! 

An electronic shutter function allows you to work silently and capture at frame rates up to 1/32,000s. Continuous capture goes up to 14fps, and the camera even captures 4K (3840x2160) quality video in XAVC S format using full pixel readout without pixel binning.Movie functions such as Picture Profile, S-Gamut/S-Log2, Gamma Display Assist, enhanced Zebra function, clean HDMI output, TC/UB, REC Control, Dual REC, and Marker function are also supported by the camera.

Three rings on the lens let you control aperture, zoom and focus manually.

New on the RX10 III, are triple rings on the lens which allow you to adjust focus, zoom and aperture right from the lens. The handgrip has also been redesigned to give you a better grip, and there’s now a new Focus Hold button on the lens barrel to lock the focus distance. This button will also double as a custom function button so you can assign functions to it as you please.

The RX 10 III will be available in selected countries in Asia Pacific from May 2016, but pricing information has yet to be released. 

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