Cameras

My sister just purchased a new camera. It is a Sony A7iii and it is pretty nice. It is also pretty expensive. Just the camera body was $1900, and her first lens was about $800. She has an old Nikon SLR with a few lenses that she will likely pass on to my niece. I also have a few cameras at home, none of them are recent however. The “newest” camera I have is a Sony a55 SLT. I also have a Sony a100, which can share lenses with the a55. I even have a Sony QX30, which probably no one else has:

It is a decent camera with no screen or viewfinder. It connects to your smartphone via wifi and is controlled through an app. I bought it used thankfully, and have never taken a real photo with it yet.

Anyway, even with a real SLR and a bunch of lenses, my favorite camera is an old Sony RX100. This is the first version of the camera; they are up to version VII (7) now. I bought the camera new many years ago for ~$600. Used models are still going for ~$300. The new RX100 VII is $1300 on Amazon.

For a tiny point-and-shoot camera, the RX100 has some pretty good specs. The image sensor is 20.2 MP; my Sony a55 is only 14.something. It also has full control over shutter speed and aperture, much like a full SLR camera. The lens is pretty bright at f/1.8 when zoomed out so I can take indoor photos without a flash. And it is light. When I travelled to Tunisia and Asia, I usually leave the SLR at home and carry this camera. The only issue I have is that the max optical zoom in only 3.6x. Sometimes you want to zoom in more, and there are point-and-shoot cameras out there with 10x optical zoom.