Uploaded April 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Gary Fong was invited to San Francisco where Sony announced the new Sony RX10iii. During the event, Gary was able to get his hands on the RX10iii and quickly review the camera. In this video, Gary shares his thoughts and first impressions.
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Hi everybody this is Gary Fong, from San Francisco, California, with my friends at Sony to witness the release of their newest camera, the Sony RX10iii.
I've been a very heavy user of the RX10ii, the one inch sensor, simply because it's a great 4K video camera. It has everything that you would need for 4K like sLOG recording capability, it has XLR sound input as well as 1/8 inch sound input, and it's all in a nice little compact package that gave us the ability to shoot anywhere between 24 to 200mm on a f2.8 Zeiss lens.
You can't really beat that, well now, Sony has actually outdone themselves by making the camera go up to 600mm. I’ll just show you what this baby will do now. So now it is a 24-600mm lens, which is in a all in one little kind of body. You normally have to have a 24-70, a 70-200mm, and then a behemoth 600mm lens for those times when you're shooting you know, wildlife in Africa or something like that, so that is the key feature.
It is a more ‘ruggedized’ of a body; couple of the other things you should know about it is it’s the same sensor as it always was, the back-illuminated sensor on the RX10ii.
They have done changes, a couple of operational changes on it, like one of the things that it has is called Zoom Assist, which when you're out at 600mm, you know something might leave your screen and you don't know which direction it went, Zoom Assist will allow you to see around you zoom area so you can follow the action, which is a very handy thing at 600mm.
Who would have though that there would be a cool feature. Because it is a focal plane shutter, you have the ability now to actually shoot flash sync up 1/2000 of a second rather than the normal 1/250 of a second or taking up to high speed sync, which is a major battery drain at 1/8000 of a second or whatever. You can go to 1/4000 of a second simply because the shutter is inside the lens.
Also, another nice benefit to shooting with a one-inch sensor is the macro capabilities. Macro on this camera I can literally take the camera and put it on top of text, almost touching the lens, and it would be able to read it so that's kind of cool feature.
So that is the RX10iii. Who’s it for? It’s for the travel photographer, It’s not for the action photographer because it doesn't have phase detection points, it has the ability to shoot 14 frames per second which is what they call speed priority, but it will not shoot while tracking. It will only shoot and track at five frames per second using only contrast sensing focus points.
So not a speed demon in that but it will outpace, say for example a6000, shooting at fourteen frames per second provided that the subject is not, you know, coming toward you, or whatever, cause it will lockdown in a continuous burst.
That is this all-in-one lens. Of course one of the features that I love most about these built in Zeiss lenses is they have the ability of click the aperture ring on or off, so that you can have a clicky or smooth and that smooth is very, very important when you're shooting video.
Of courses a zoom ring here, which will allow you to zoom very quietly and and vary independently of the film barrel, i mean the lens barrel, while you're shooting video, different speeds, etc. So that is the Sony RX10iii.
Gary Fong was invited to San Francisco where Sony announced the new Sony RX10iii. During the event, Gary was able to get his hands on the RX10iii and quickly review the camera. In this video, Gary shares his thoughts and first impressions.
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Sony a6300 Course: goo.gl/ucMFhT
Sony a7Rii Course: goo.gl/yJX3Ip
Sony a7Sii Course: goo.gl/i0krdm
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Sony a7ii Course: goo.gl/dhbH7v
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Sony a7 Course: goo.gl/AbRcBC
Sony a7S Course: goo.gl/zznB8Z
Sony a7R Course: goo.gl/movFji
Sony a77 Course: goo.gl/vo6Vdm
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Sony a99 Course: goo.gl/SYmqOJ
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Sony Mirrorless Cinema Series: goo.gl/bMWBeP
How To Shoot A Wedding: goo.gl/UED4HY
An In-Depth Discussion About sRgb and AdobeRGB: goo.gl/td4rwt
How To Setup Your Sony Wireless Flash: goo.gl/lzcVXT
Hi everybody this is Gary Fong, from San Francisco, California, with my friends at Sony to witness the release of their newest camera, the Sony RX10iii.
I've been a very heavy user of the RX10ii, the one inch sensor, simply because it's a great 4K video camera. It has everything that you would need for 4K like sLOG recording capability, it has XLR sound input as well as 1/8 inch sound input, and it's all in a nice little compact package that gave us the ability to shoot anywhere between 24 to 200mm on a f2.8 Zeiss lens.
You can't really beat that, well now, Sony has actually outdone themselves by making the camera go up to 600mm. I’ll just show you what this baby will do now. So now it is a 24-600mm lens, which is in a all in one little kind of body. You normally have to have a 24-70, a 70-200mm, and then a behemoth 600mm lens for those times when you're shooting you know, wildlife in Africa or something like that, so that is the key feature.
It is a more ‘ruggedized’ of a body; couple of the other things you should know about it is it’s the same sensor as it always was, the back-illuminated sensor on the RX10ii.
They have done changes, a couple of operational changes on it, like one of the things that it has is called Zoom Assist, which when you're out at 600mm, you know something might leave your screen and you don't know which direction it went, Zoom Assist will allow you to see around you zoom area so you can follow the action, which is a very handy thing at 600mm.
Who would have though that there would be a cool feature. Because it is a focal plane shutter, you have the ability now to actually shoot flash sync up 1/2000 of a second rather than the normal 1/250 of a second or taking up to high speed sync, which is a major battery drain at 1/8000 of a second or whatever. You can go to 1/4000 of a second simply because the shutter is inside the lens.
Also, another nice benefit to shooting with a one-inch sensor is the macro capabilities. Macro on this camera I can literally take the camera and put it on top of text, almost touching the lens, and it would be able to read it so that's kind of cool feature.
So that is the RX10iii. Who’s it for? It’s for the travel photographer, It’s not for the action photographer because it doesn't have phase detection points, it has the ability to shoot 14 frames per second which is what they call speed priority, but it will not shoot while tracking. It will only shoot and track at five frames per second using only contrast sensing focus points.
So not a speed demon in that but it will outpace, say for example a6000, shooting at fourteen frames per second provided that the subject is not, you know, coming toward you, or whatever, cause it will lockdown in a continuous burst.
That is this all-in-one lens. Of course one of the features that I love most about these built in Zeiss lenses is they have the ability of click the aperture ring on or off, so that you can have a clicky or smooth and that smooth is very, very important when you're shooting video.
Of courses a zoom ring here, which will allow you to zoom very quietly and and vary independently of the film barrel, i mean the lens barrel, while you're shooting video, different speeds, etc. So that is the Sony RX10iii.
