Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100M4

Advantages: The best pocket solution for travelers who do not like to carry a DSLR and are not financially constrained. + Excellent video quality - one of the few cameras that fully scans the matrix when filming instead of skipping lines. + Ability to shoot in RAW with good quality. + A rare opportunity for Sony to completely disable noise reduction. + Built-in means of combining frames - HDR of different types, noise averaging. + Clean uncompressed video output, both in FullHD and 4K - the ability to record to an external recorder with high quality and low compression + Possibility of not only charging, but also powering from USB + The best slow-motion of all available cameras since Casio EX-F1, also with the ability to output unpressed video + High aperture at the wide end of the lens. It helps a lot. + Compact body + Full HD recording at 120 fps without time limit

Disadvantages: - Short battery life, battery very shallow (if you shoot a video, not a photo). Although for serious tasks, you can connect any USB-battery - Moving out lens. Yes, I know that it is impossible to do otherwise in a compact camera, but it still upsets. - Recording time in 4K is limited to 5 minutes, and taking into account overheating - sometimes 3. It is decided by an external recorder. - Slow-motion recording is limited by the buffer size, in good quality only 2 seconds of the original, as opposed to unlimited in EX-F1. But incomparably higher quality. - Folding screen.

Comment: I bought the camera exclusively for recording video in 4K and slow-motion, even slow-motion in the first place. And I was not disappointed! Yes, this is truly an achievement. I was pleasantly surprised by the ability to completely turn off noise reduction - finally, even on Sony, you can shoot quite clear pictures and even slightly raise the ISO. The sensitivity is pleasantly surprising, although it has not yet reached the level of DSLRs. I bought it while traveling and often took it out to shoot an automatic HDR or a clip in slow-motion, even with a DSLR around my neck :) Judging by the fact that it periodically disappears from the presence in the Russian Sonishop, there is a demand for it. Note that recording in some modes requires complex memory cards. It is not clear why the electronic viewfinder was inserted there. This is an amazing quality electronic viewfinder - the first one that, in my opinion, can rival a real optical one. High frame rate and no latency. But somehow there was never a need to use it. Everyone is pointing the soap dish through the small screen, but the price without it could be lower.

Advantages: Photos and videos of good quality. Compactness. Build quality. Thoughtful interface. Sophisticated layout (rotating screen, built-in flash, viewfinder) - there is no frills you need. Successful lens: FR range, luminosity.

Disadvantages: Price. Brand + course + greed ...

Comment: The best, for today, option of a photo-form is always with you.

Advantages: the quality of shooting in automatic mode (not to mention manual) At night it shoots like in the day

Disadvantages: Battery Price

Comment: It is definitely worth buying for those who prefer automatic mode, HERE Sony has no competitors at all. Night photography is generally a masterpiece .. At present, there are no competitors in terms of photo and video quality (excellent stabilization). Do not listen to different Scourges justifying their "cheap" purchases and comparing their soap boxes to a normal, almost professional camera. If you want to save money, then the best replacement (in your practice) will be Canon GX7-2, this is a good device ......... but IT will NEVER reach that quality, that stabilization, automatic shooting that Sony RX will offer you 100 (4.5 generations). It is worth paying extra for it, you will definitely not be disappointed, and sometimes just surprised, like me.

Advantages: Photo quality, video, features. they are countless. Well, compactness, but again, it can be called pocket-sized at a stretch. The same canon s100, although shamelessly loses in all respects, but it is really pocket-sized.

Disadvantages: The main drawback is the PRICE! She's just a horse. You can take a Full frame SLR with more or less weird optics for this money. Well, like all compacts - a battery.

Comment: Most likely - this is the best compact, BUT !!! Very expensive, unreasonably expensive. Took to use it, I would never buy it myself.Especially I am finished off by non-businessmen who bought compacts of the premium segment (for example, Sony rx-100, M2 and M3) immediately before the fall of the ruble for 20-30 tr. (the same Sony rx-100 cost 18 tr.). Now, having used the devices for a year and a half, they are sold for 40-50 tr. (!!!) and do not move a ruble)). Therefore, I think the price is artificially high. Overall, the device is very serious.

Advantages: 4K video quality and weight. He takes photos like ordinary good soap dishes. The lens for a compact is good fast.

Disadvantages: Not in this size. Autonomy is lame.

Comment: I bought a new one for 42000. As an addition to Lake and Canon Mark. I got exactly what I wanted. The device is excellent and a must have for the money. Fits in a jacket pocket.