The biggest issue is that S-Log2 requires a minimum ISO of 1000. The dynamic range also falls way short of what you’d get with a larger-sensor camera, so there’s a limit to how much you can tinker with the shadows and highlights. While it does indeed give you a lot of flexibility in the colors, this is compressed video, so you’re only going to be able to push and pull so far (note: you can hook the RX0 II up to an external recorder for uncompressed 4:2:2 video, but that, to me, defeats the purpose of a pocket-sized camera). There are some significant caveats, though, when shooting S-Log2 with the RX0 II. Generally speaking, for those who are willing to really dig in during post-production and do some granular color correcting, this should give you the most flexibility to make the image match other cameras or give it the certain stylized look you’re after. Blacks and whites both appear grayish and colors are washed out and muted. In layperson’s terms S-Log2 is a very flat color profile. Something camera geeks will be happy to see is that the RX0 II can now shoot in the S-Log2 picture profile.
#Sony action mini cam manual#
In addition to Sony’s very smart Intelligent Auto mode (which basically chooses all the settings for you), if you switch to a manual mode you can gain a lot of granular control over the image. For starters, it shoots video at a higher bitrate, which effectively crams more quality into your clips. Both the GoPro Hero6 and Hero7 can shoot double that (4Kp240), but the Sony has some tricks the GoPro doesn’t.
#Sony action mini cam 1080p#
The RX0 II can shoot video at 4K at speeds up to 30 fps or 1080p video at 120 fps. This is the main reason why I wouldn’t really consider the RX0 II an action camera, but there are others, too, which we’ll get into a bit later. You really can’t stick it on the nose of your surfboard or use a selfie stick while snowboarding with it and expect to be in frame. The RX0 II has a (35mm equivalent) field of view of 24mm, where as a GoPro has a much wider 15mm equivalent. The field of view, however, is much narrower than a GoPro’s, or really any other action cam on the market. It also has a 1-inch image sensor capable of shooting 15.3MP stills, which is a lot bigger than the sensor on a GoPro (1/2.3-inch sensor for 12MP). The camera is waterproof to 33 feet, drop-proof to 6.5 feet, and crush-proof to 440 pounds.
And though she be but little, she is fierce. It’s 1.63 inches tall x 2.38 inches wide x 1.44 inches deep and weighs 4.7 ounces. Body-wise, the RX0 II hasn’t changed much from 2017’s Mark I.