Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX1R II

portability, usability, performance, lens, price

battery, size, low-light

82% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

The RX1R II is an amazing camera with its 42.4-megapixel full-frame sensor, variable OLPF, built-in EVF, compact size, and f/2.0 35mm prime lens. However, it’s still a $3,300 point-and-shoot, and as sophisticated as it is, it’s a lot of money (although...

Amazing resolution ; Small size ; Retractable electronic viewfinder

Screen not touch sensitive ; No optical image stabilisation ; Poor battery life

The Sony RX1R II delivers superb image quality in a neat, compact body. The electronic viewfinder is great, though the processing speed and battery life are poor and there's no optical image stabilization.

Compact design. Full-frame 42-megapixel image sensor. Sharp 35mm f/2 lens. Excellent picture quality. Variable OLPF filter. Integrated pop-up EVF. Tilting rear display. 1080p120 video. Wi-Fi.

Lens shows some barrel distortion. Limited battery life. Doesn't include external battery charger. Uncomfortable focus select switch. Omits flash.

Conclusions It's easy to call the RX1R II one of the best full-frame compacts on the market—it doesn't have a lot of competition. But one shouldn't understate just how far cameras have come when you see how much power Sony has put into such a small...

The Sony Cyber-shot RX1R II is the latest in the company's line of compact, fixed-lens full-frame digital cameras. It inherits the same basic body shape and ZEISS 35mm F2 lens as its predecessors, the RX1 and RX1R, but almost everything beneath the...

Huge scale images, that Carl Zeiss lens is great and produces superb bokeh at f/2.0, great aperture and focus controls, built-in electronic viewfinder that is retractable if you want to hide it

Poor battery life, auto white balance sometimes off, not the fastest of autofocus, close-up focus limitations, high ISO limitations (uneven gradients beyond ISO 1600), some barrel distortion

At first glance the RX1R II might not seem that different to the original model. But there's plenty new here: the ingenious little pop-up electronic viewfinder, the new tilt-angle screen mechanism and, of course, that sensor with huge 42-megapixel...