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REVIEW SONY RX0 V GOPRO HERO6
ATTACK OF THE ACTION CAMS Until now, the action camera market has been GoPro shaped; we compare their new offering with Sony’s pro version
WORDS ADAM DUCKWORTH
as long as your eyesight is good. Cramming all the menu information onto a 1.5-inch screen means the icons are truly tiny and the buttons are fiddly, but that’s the price you pay for miniaturisation. The buttons are also very sensitive, and we often found the camera turned on accidentally. You need to be careful and make sure you haven’t changed settings. PHONE APP With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the RX0 can be controlled via Sony’s smartphone app which is a great way to use it remotely, change settings and even review footage. The camera is made from rugged aluminium and is waterproof to ten metres, shock- and crush-proof without the need for any external case. Add on the optional case and the camera is good to go even deeper in the water down to 100m/330ft, but it does cost £930/$900 which is even more than the camera itself. There’s a single, standard tripod mount on the bottom so it works for all conventional grips. But as it seems the whole action camera world
ony’s tiny RX0 may look like a consumer action camera, but is the first super-small camera that is a real useable tool for professional filmmakers. It’s a mini production camera that might not offer all the consumer-friendly features of the latest breed of action cameras like GoPro but aces them all with its pro video capabilities plus its Zeiss lens and large 1.0-inch type Exmor CMOS sensor. That’s the biggest sensor fitted to any camera of this diminutive size, and best of all it can shoot in S-Log2 to maximise dynamic range. No other mini camera does that. Essentially, the RX0 features the internals of one of the Sony RX100 range, but with a fixed 24mm-equivalent lens and minus any external control dials. All those have been left off, leaving it to be controlled via the screen on the back and push buttons to access the menus which are the same as all Sony’s high-end consumer cameras. If you are used to anything like an A7, A6000 or RX-series cameras, you’ll be right at home straight away. That’s
ABOVE The new SONY RX0 – you had me at S-Log2.
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