I think I'm almost at 1.5 years with mine now. I've carried that thing deep into wilderness, had it in snow, rain, and dust. Just an all around joy to shoot, where I don't want to bring my a9 or a7R3 and lens. I have even gotten it into several professional sports games, since it is not an interchangeable lens and when off is fairly compact. It's amazing the places I am able to get that camera into.
I bought this camera in September after watching your reviews and it just keeps making me smile I took it with me to a wedding recently where I was shooting predominately with my XT 2 but found myself picking it up more and more often just to grab that close intimate shot without intrusion combining that with its movie and slow mo capabilities gave me so many options yes of course if you really pixel peep it's never going to hold up as well as a full frame or crop sensors that are out there but in the real world whether viewed I as up to A3 print or as a slideshow on a HD tv it just won't matter as it will appear every bit a sharp and pleasing
Giving this camera the real test occurred in Feb. 2020 north of Fairbanks.Temperature at time of shooting the aurora borealis was minus 37 degrees. Only the batteries needed changes, but the camera performed almost faultless. Take my word ....I have used this camera everywhere and so satisfied.
Magic video! Thank you! Was convinced that the RX10 IV low light capability wasn't too hot, but your video has made me realise that it is completely useable. I just need to learn more about the camera and photography in general! Thanks again!
@@sjm.photos I saw it the other day. Excellent! Your dogs on the beach, footage/shots convinced me not to go and fork out for a Canon D6 MKII or D5 MKII, for low light. Im a keen hobbyist but was believing what people were saying too much about the RX10 IV and low light. I just need to learn things properly and develop some skills ha ha! Your channel is a revelation! Thank you!
Absolutely love mine, which I bought after watching your channel. I have some great pictures with it, but yours really do show me how I can improve :) The only reason I will also buy a full frame camera now is because I have go into astrophotography, and it looks like I need full frame and a fast wide angle lens if I want to avoid using my tracker and panoramas for the milky way. For daytime rambling and travelling I can't see me swopping lenses every time I see a new scene or distant wildlife, also you never know what interesting things will suddenly turn up. Maybe I'll find the full frame and wider angle useful for the landscapes I return to now and then or for photgraphing buildings.
thanks for the kind words love the rx1oiv aswell. yep i have more keeper shots with it due to unexpected moments i would have missed with the full frame. the 14mm gm lens is amazing on the full frames f1.8 so good for astro and small and light.
Hey Stuart Fantastic presentation. Think this the one for me...just waiting for reviews of the nikon p950 ..but something tells me this is the 1 bridge camera I'm going to get. Would love to see the other pics of the Spit......no really were they at big guy......Spit fan
Douglas Lee I will have to dig them out of the archives if I still have them last year I was quite ruthless and deleted a lot of work that I wasn’t going to use
What I am seeing, is that cameras such as these, because they are so accessible at any time for many uses. The camera you have with you, is the best camera to have. I may migrate to these super zooms 'point and shoot' cameras and sell my A65, A55, and A300. I am tired of hauling a gang of gear. I thought about it this way; these cameras right now are better then the early DSLRs. These cameras are only going to improve. These cameras settle a dilemma of 'what to carry'. They are not the complete 'fix', but do relax the burden some, and have a few issues to iron out yet. I am not getting rid of my A7 mark 4, but my word...the lenses are stupid spendy. Which this camera solves to some degree...it is in its own right...a complete kit. Wish the sensor was even larger.....
sadly the sensor couldnt be larger due to the size they decided on if it was bigger the lens would be enormous using my a7riv and other sony mirrorless then picking up the rx10iv yes its brilliant but you do have to use a few different techniques compared to using a full frame interchangable camera.
It's a Harris Hawk, but I'm nit-picking and just trying to be clever! LOL Your review is brilliant! Very informative and it's kind of made my mind up on my next purchase!
@@sjm.photos Just for added info... the Harris Hawk is not native to the UK but to N. America in to Mexico and Peru. If you happen to see any in the wild in the UK it would most probably be one lost by a falconer. Cracking shot though.
Thank you for the review. Is the camera easy to use for a very amateur photographer who has some teenage kids he wants to use the camera also. And what about software used to upload and download images, is it easy to use . By the way I love your subject matter. Trying to capture the subtle sensitivity inherent in strength and power is how I see some of your shots.
thankyou for the kind words. the rx10iv is basically a highend pro level camera hidden in an all in one camera body. if you want to put it in the program modes it is easy to use but when you learn and feel confident to do so you can go fully manual like i shoot and get exactly what you want. its an amazing camera but does take some time to learn how it works as it has a lot of functions i have a few videos on here that can help set it up etc
@@sjm.photos Thanks so its as powerful as how much effort the user wants to put into learning the features. Its on my list , the next camera when I get some funds together. Goodluck with your channel , hope the reopening brings new opportunities.
Heyhi Stuart excellent review on The RX 4 Yehr lookin to buy where would you suggest I heard BH good bet whre you can buy stuff not yet being opened.. But I'm in Germany so taxes pretty high on delivery..
Hi Stuart - another great video. Having been a Sony fan for a few years. I've tried A6000, H400v and compacts, all pretty good but Rx takes some beating. I've just got mk3 and been playing with metering mode - mainly use center weighted. Just wondered which mode you generally use. Cheers Dave
Do you have proccesed your photos and video samples here? 'I've watching all your videos, and Im not sure, but I see great diference on quality on various samples: sometimes verry sharp, incredible colours, etc; but sometimes the images and videos looks very noisy and with a ugly kind of "mist" and overexposed (specially on videos about nature, birds, landscapes - on zoo pfor example- or very sunny days photo/videos). I'm very intersted in this camera and the pocket Lumix 100 lxII but , in the second one the lack of a external mic support is a great problem to me, but this camera looks incredible in some situations and very dissapointed in other. I thank you for your response, I want this camera but Im worried about these quality variations, and it makes me think on the Lumix: not a great zoom, but excellent photo and video quality ¿is this camera so many variable in its quality?... Sorry for my english, Im not speak this lenguage. Excellent videos
If.you keep.the iso at iso 100 as.much a possible it.is.amazing. if.you shoot iso1000 you need to add.noise reduction. Quality is very good and the best camera out there. I shoot fully manual and that is the difference over others using program modes. Which can reduce quality. I suggest trying one before you buy one. I do process my images yes but we are thinking 30 seconds per photo in photoshop. Hope that helps.
@@sjm.photos thank you so much!! its very helpful! Sadly, in my city there are ot physical stores to tray a Sony camera like this, but still is my first option if I use youtube samples like reference. I think that your channel is the most extensive and useful in all youtube, at least with respect SonyRXM104. Congratulations and thanks again
I forgot ¿which the ISO limit of this camera to get great pictures and videos? I need this camera principally to do landscape on sunny days (mountains, sea, etc), some potraits, and just a little night photos in the city
Crazy to think that these photographs are straight out of camera. Would you say RX10iv is a good camera for a person who wants to go out from a point and shoot camera like the RX100?
i rarely even edit anymore i love to keep things real , i have used both the rx100 and obviously own the rx10iv the rx100 is brilliant it fits in the pocket but its very restriced compared to the rx10iv mainly because the lens on the rx10iv is amazing so much reach to wide angle and f2.4-f4 but with a short 72cm at 600mm minimum focus its good for wildlife like butterflies and obviously birds in flight and more. even at 24mm you can focus to the end of the lens hood so like 2 inches its awesome for its useability one reason its a win in my book. yes its bigger but it only ways 1kg.
@@sjm.photos Thank you for the reply. Also, in my opinion, Sony might be killing off the RX line. There's no RX100 for 2020 (ZV-1 pretty much is the RX100 for the year 2020) and there is no iteration for the rest of the RX line products, namely the RX100, RX10, RX1 anda RX0. The latest product that came out of the RX line was RX100M7 and RX0M2 in 2019. So, maybe there will be no RX10M5, and it will be replaced with a whole different model. Of course, this is just my opinion and I could be wrong.
odd… A lot of these photos look quite compressed and “flat” to me, in some cases almost HDR-like. I assume that is your processing, and they didn’t come out of the camera that way?
i only ever really process ie raw small adjustments thats it 30 seconds max per image or some even straight from the camera. thats it id rather be out taking photos and getting it as good as possible in camera rather than relying on editing to fix a photo. and remember this is now video so they have been hugely compressed down to 1080p from a much larger 5463x3642 pixel images
How good is camera at capturing high flying Passenger jets , Sunsets on normal settings .. as some of the other videos on the camera they mention standard setting camera .. that you can switch it too that which it does everythin for you .. How good is that setting for taking sunset captures etc etc and Darksky captures of Stars at night , Coastal captures of villages can it be done ??
absolutely fine no issues. it captures photos aswell as most cameras do struggles a little over full frame cameras and high iso other than that its spot on i have a new video coming today which will show sunset photos and you can see the dynamic range aswell. i do not use any auto modes so cant really comment on those as i always shoot raw and manual. it can capture stars pretty well actually
I have the Sony RX10iv and still finding my way around it, but find the image quality very poor. This camera was supposed to end me having to take two cameras and my canon 100-400 to air shows and events, but unfortunately the image quality isn't good enough. I did take it to an airshow, and thought it would be great with the extra reach and 24 frames a second, but came home disappointed. Straight out of the camera shots for me are noisy, and that is shooting Raw and ISO 100. I will keep playing with it even if it is just for the video capabilities.
The image quality is fantastic. Its mostly down to people using the camera.wrong like auto iso etc. If.you check out my other.videos you will.see it is one hell of.a.camera
The same was happening to me shooting in full manual with correct settings. I searched it up and I'm not sure if in camera NR applies to RAW images. Because in post I'll sharpen the image and add NR and then the images are clear and look really good. So maybe play around with those settings and see how your images come out? It might not be what you're hoping for but hopefully it helps
How about answering: for YOU and what YOU do the image quality is fantastic. I own it. I love it..but to assume someone has to have the same subjective experience as you is just really silly. You automatically again...assume that people don't know what they're doing.
I think I'm almost at 1.5 years with mine now. I've carried that thing deep into wilderness, had it in snow, rain, and dust. Just an all around joy to shoot, where I don't want to bring my a9 or a7R3 and lens. I have even gotten it into several professional sports games, since it is not an interchangeable lens and when off is fairly compact. It's amazing the places I am able to get that camera into.
Great to hear. Yes its one hell of a.camera glad you enjoy using it like i do.
So true!! I managed to get the camera into a Raptors game. The security staff were is awe of the camera!
I bought this camera in September after watching your reviews and it just keeps making me smile I took it with me to a wedding recently where I was shooting predominately with my XT 2 but found myself picking it up more and more often just to grab that close intimate shot without intrusion combining that with its movie and slow mo capabilities gave me so many options yes of course if you really pixel peep it's never going to hold up as well as a full frame or crop sensors that are out there but in the real world whether viewed I as up to A3 print or as a slideshow on a HD tv it just won't matter as it will appear every bit a sharp and pleasing
Glad you are.enjoying it
Giving this camera the real test occurred in Feb. 2020 north of Fairbanks.Temperature at time of shooting the aurora borealis was minus 37 degrees. Only the batteries needed changes, but the camera performed almost faultless. Take my word ....I have used this camera everywhere and so satisfied.
brilliant to hear
Have to agree. That Spitfire shot is spectacular.
Magic video! Thank you! Was convinced that the RX10 IV low light capability wasn't too hot, but your video has made me realise that it is completely useable. I just need to learn more about the camera and photography in general! Thanks again!
You watched the crow.video iso1000 shots totally useable. Just a 20% noise reduction job done
@@sjm.photos I saw it the other day. Excellent! Your dogs on the beach, footage/shots convinced me not to go and fork out for a Canon D6 MKII or D5 MKII, for low light. Im a keen hobbyist but was believing what people were saying too much about the RX10 IV and low light. I just need to learn things properly and develop some skills ha ha! Your channel is a revelation! Thank you!
@@DonHalli means a lot thankyou. Always happy.to help. I try to be as real as possible and truthful.
Absolutely love mine, which I bought after watching your channel. I have some great pictures with it, but yours really do show me how I can improve :) The only reason I will also buy a full frame camera now is because I have go into astrophotography, and it looks like I need full frame and a fast wide angle lens if I want to avoid using my tracker and panoramas for the milky way. For daytime rambling and travelling I can't see me swopping lenses every time I see a new scene or distant wildlife, also you never know what interesting things will suddenly turn up. Maybe I'll find the full frame and wider angle useful for the landscapes I return to now and then or for photgraphing buildings.
thanks for the kind words love the rx1oiv aswell. yep i have more keeper shots with it due to unexpected moments i would have missed with the full frame. the 14mm gm lens is amazing on the full frames f1.8 so good for astro and small and light.
Terrific review and wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing!! Looks like the RX10 mkIV is my new camera.
thankyou for watching :)
What an awesome shot of the spitfire, love it.
thankyou
My next camera, I'm thinking strongly.
it is still fantastic
Hey Stuart
Fantastic presentation. Think this the one for me...just waiting for reviews of the nikon p950 ..but something tells me this is the 1 bridge camera I'm going to get. Would love to see the other pics of the Spit......no really were they at big guy......Spit fan
Douglas Lee I will have to dig them out of the archives if I still have them last year I was quite ruthless and deleted a lot of work that I wasn’t going to use
What I am seeing, is that cameras such as these, because they are so accessible at any time for many uses. The camera you have with you, is the best camera to have. I may migrate to these super zooms 'point and shoot' cameras and sell my A65, A55, and A300. I am tired of hauling a gang of gear. I thought about it this way; these cameras right now are better then the early DSLRs. These cameras are only going to improve. These cameras settle a dilemma of 'what to carry'. They are not the complete 'fix', but do relax the burden some, and have a few issues to iron out yet. I am not getting rid of my A7 mark 4, but my word...the lenses are stupid spendy. Which this camera solves to some degree...it is in its own right...a complete kit. Wish the sensor was even larger.....
sadly the sensor couldnt be larger due to the size they decided on if it was bigger the lens would be enormous using my a7riv and other sony mirrorless then picking up the rx10iv yes its brilliant but you do have to use a few different techniques compared to using a full frame interchangable camera.
It's a Harris Hawk, but I'm nit-picking and just trying to be clever! LOL Your review is brilliant! Very informative and it's kind of made my mind up on my next purchase!
I need to learn my wildlife a little more. Im always happy to be corrected if.im wrong. And thankyou
@@sjm.photos Just for added info... the Harris Hawk is not native to the UK but to N. America in to Mexico and Peru. If you happen to see any in the wild in the UK it would most probably be one lost by a falconer. Cracking shot though.
@@FrankEtchells thats cool Frank we learn new things every day thankyou :)
First! Actually it's my second rx10, I have a mk 2 as well
Thank you for the review. Is the camera easy to use for a very amateur photographer who has some teenage kids he wants to use the camera also.
And what about software used to upload and download images, is it easy to use .
By the way I love your subject matter. Trying to capture the subtle sensitivity inherent in strength and power is how I see some of your shots.
thankyou for the kind words. the rx10iv is basically a highend pro level camera hidden in an all in one camera body. if you want to put it in the program modes it is easy to use but when you learn and feel confident to do so you can go fully manual like i shoot and get exactly what you want. its an amazing camera but does take some time to learn how it works as it has a lot of functions i have a few videos on here that can help set it up etc
@@sjm.photos Thanks so its as powerful as how much effort the user wants to put into learning the features. Its on my list , the next camera when I get some funds together. Goodluck with your channel , hope the reopening brings new opportunities.
Could you get a shot on that spitfire in auto?, or do u have to manually focus ?
i shot it in autofocus. just manual adjustments in exposure . i shot about 200 shots if i remember every one in focus
thanks alot amazing photos. could you do a review with video on the Sony rx10iv?
sorry only just seen this not all of the comments seem to show up
Heyhi Stuart excellent review on The RX 4 Yehr lookin to buy where would you suggest I heard BH good bet whre you can buy stuff not yet being opened.. But I'm in Germany so taxes pretty high on delivery..
whats the prices like on amazon places like that?
Hi Stuart - another great video.
Having been a Sony fan for a few years. I've tried A6000, H400v and compacts, all pretty good but Rx takes some beating. I've just got mk3 and been playing with metering mode - mainly use center weighted. Just wondered which mode you generally use. Cheers Dave
centre 99% of the time
Do you have proccesed your photos and video samples here? 'I've watching all your videos, and Im not sure, but I see great diference on quality on various samples: sometimes verry sharp, incredible colours, etc; but sometimes the images and videos looks very noisy and with a ugly kind of "mist" and overexposed (specially on videos about nature, birds, landscapes - on zoo pfor example- or very sunny days photo/videos). I'm very intersted in this camera and the pocket Lumix 100 lxII but , in the second one the lack of a external mic support is a great problem to me, but this camera looks incredible in some situations and very dissapointed in other. I thank you for your response, I want this camera but Im worried about these quality variations, and it makes me think on the Lumix: not a great zoom, but excellent photo and video quality ¿is this camera so many variable in its quality?... Sorry for my english, Im not speak this lenguage. Excellent videos
If.you keep.the iso at iso 100 as.much a possible it.is.amazing. if.you shoot iso1000 you need to add.noise reduction. Quality is very good and the best camera out there. I shoot fully manual and that is the difference over others using program modes. Which can reduce quality. I suggest trying one before you buy one. I do process my images yes but we are thinking 30 seconds per photo in photoshop. Hope that helps.
@@sjm.photos thank you so much!! its very helpful! Sadly, in my city there are ot physical stores to tray a Sony camera like this, but still is my first option if I use youtube samples like reference. I think that your channel is the most extensive and useful in all youtube, at least with respect SonyRXM104. Congratulations and thanks again
I forgot ¿which the ISO limit of this camera to get great pictures and videos? I need this camera principally to do landscape on sunny days (mountains, sea, etc), some potraits, and just a little night photos in the city
@@hablemosde1950 between iso64 and 400 is great i never shoot above 1000 but addin g 20%noisereduction helps a lot
Crazy to think that these photographs are straight out of camera. Would you say RX10iv is a good camera for a person who wants to go out from a point and shoot camera like the RX100?
i rarely even edit anymore i love to keep things real , i have used both the rx100 and obviously own the rx10iv the rx100 is brilliant it fits in the pocket but its very restriced compared to the rx10iv mainly because the lens on the rx10iv is amazing so much reach to wide angle and f2.4-f4 but with a short 72cm at 600mm minimum focus its good for wildlife like butterflies and obviously birds in flight and more. even at 24mm you can focus to the end of the lens hood so like 2 inches its awesome for its useability one reason its a win in my book. yes its bigger but it only ways 1kg.
@@sjm.photos Thank you for the reply. Also, in my opinion, Sony might be killing off the RX line. There's no RX100 for 2020 (ZV-1 pretty much is the RX100 for the year 2020) and there is no iteration for the rest of the RX line products, namely the RX100, RX10, RX1 anda RX0. The latest product that came out of the RX line was RX100M7 and RX0M2 in 2019. So, maybe there will be no RX10M5, and it will be replaced with a whole different model.
Of course, this is just my opinion and I could be wrong.
Azzam who knows but we can hope
I am just wondering will the mark 5 come out this year ?b
hopefully keep those fingers crossed
Did you shoot the spitfire in HDR mode ?
the spitfire photo is a photo i shot that in the 24fps burst mode i have around 250 photos of that spitfire coming down past me.
odd… A lot of these photos look quite compressed and “flat” to me, in some cases almost HDR-like. I assume that is your processing, and they didn’t come out of the camera that way?
i only ever really process ie raw small adjustments thats it 30 seconds max per image or some even straight from the camera. thats it id rather be out taking photos and getting it as good as possible in camera rather than relying on editing to fix a photo. and remember this is now video so they have been hugely compressed down to 1080p from a much larger 5463x3642 pixel images
How good is camera at capturing high flying Passenger jets , Sunsets on normal settings .. as some of the other videos on the camera they mention standard setting camera .. that you can switch it too that which it does everythin for you ..
How good is that setting for taking sunset captures etc etc
and Darksky captures of Stars at night , Coastal captures of villages can it be done ??
absolutely fine no issues. it captures photos aswell as most cameras do struggles a little over full frame cameras and high iso other than that its spot on i have a new video coming today which will show sunset photos and you can see the dynamic range aswell. i do not use any auto modes so cant really comment on those as i always shoot raw and manual. it can capture stars pretty well actually
@@sjm.photos No worries , Look forward to your next video
Where can I see the picture of that Spitfire? Do you have an album online?
never actually used it other than on here and on my facebook
How was low light performance for you?
Its ok upto iso 100-1600 with nr
This camera was perfect for 22 days in South Africa. Just take extra batteries, charger and memory cards and shoot.
Nice glad you enjoyed it
What happened the 23rd day?🤭
Can I make prints up to A3 size?
A1 easily. i did a video and even with a rubbish photo in rubbish light its still really good. ruclips.net/video/LfK96ITLUyw/видео.html
did anyone used it for a wedding or portrait photography?
Hhemenistan i have used it as a second camera during a wedding also yes i have shot portraiture with it
Hhemenistan here is a video where i used the rx10iv for portraiture ruclips.net/video/4zGKmS3Ggfs/видео.html
I have the Sony RX10iv and still finding my way around it, but find the image quality very poor. This camera was supposed to end me having to take two cameras and my canon 100-400 to air shows and events, but unfortunately the image quality isn't good enough. I did take it to an airshow, and thought it would be great with the extra reach and 24 frames a second, but came home disappointed. Straight out of the camera shots for me are noisy, and that is shooting Raw and ISO 100. I will keep playing with it even if it is just for the video capabilities.
The image quality is fantastic. Its mostly down to people using the camera.wrong like auto iso etc. If.you check out my other.videos you will.see it is one hell of.a.camera
The same was happening to me shooting in full manual with correct settings. I searched it up and I'm not sure if in camera NR applies to RAW images. Because in post I'll sharpen the image and add NR and then the images are clear and look really good. So maybe play around with those settings and see how your images come out? It might not be what you're hoping for but hopefully it helps
How about answering: for YOU and what YOU do the image quality is fantastic. I own it. I love it..but to assume someone has to have the same subjective experience as you is just really silly. You automatically again...assume that people don't know what they're doing.