Hello, all! I am joining in on the discussions about the Sony RX100 M VI since I have one, which arrived on Launch Day (July 10). I had participated in some discussion of the camera on Amin's other forum, the one devoted to Sony E-Mount cameras, and it somewhat belatedly occurred to me that probably I should check out this forum and see if there were discussion on here, which is a more logical location.
I have shot Nikon for many years and then a few years ago purchased the Sony NEX-7, which I immediately loved. A couple of years later bought the RX100 M3, which I loved, too, and found just great for travel. I eventually replaced it with the M5 last year. The one thing which I found annoying about the M5 was the fairly short reach and so when I learned about the M6 and its imminent arrival I promptly preordered it from B&H and received it on Launch Day.
I'm keeping my M5, too, though, because of that wonderful f/1.8 - f/2.8 aperture, which really is great in low-light situations. Unless, at some point I decide to swap it in on a new M5 A, which will be arriving on the scene early in August...... That camera will have some of the new features and functions of the M6 while still retaining the wider aperture and 24-70 zoom range.
The menu system in the M6 does seem a bit daunting at first and it does take some time to sort through all of the various options in settings, and I have found myself tweaking them as I use the camera more in various situations. There is a very useful online setup guide by Wim Arys:
Sony RX100 VI advanced manual I have found this to be great for going step-by-step through each setting and he clarifies a few items along the way, which helps a lot.
I find the lens on the RX100 M6 to be very sharp and the colors very pleasing; I tend to shoot in Aperture priority and after my initial experiments with the camera I decided to also try the Clear Image Zoom feature, which is surprisingly good and which has not had a negative impact on my images while extending my reach even a little further. I have so far been shooting in JPG while waiting for RAW conversion to come along from the various sources. I am a Mac user and am still using Apple's Aperture for editing my images, but one of these days I really need to do some extensive trial-and-error on a few of the other programs that are available out there now. I'm not a big fan of the subscription plan that Adobe is offering, so probably am not going to invest in that for Photoshop and Lightroom; I don't shoot professionally and I usually don't shoot all that often, either.
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