Like I told you before Sony will announce more than just the A77II on May 1 at 10am London time. One of the smaller surprises could be the new Sony RX100M3 whose name just leaked out through a Sony manual (see screenshot on top). There are no specs or info yet but I am sure we will have them soon. But if you compare the images at the bottom you will see there seems to be a difference on the lens size suggesting that there may be some changes (hopefully the patented 28-100mm f/1.8-2.8 lens!). Meantime the current RX100II has already a [shoplink 26119 ebay]$100 off on eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Looks exactly the same. So the new lens patent maybe didn’t make it to this one?
Actually there seems to be a difference!
Maby a 24-2000mm equivelent to compete with nikon p700.
Please explain the rationale for making a completely different camera, but naming it as version 3 of an existing model. You’re not making any sense at all. The superzoom you talk about would not be called RX100 Mark 3 by any person who cares about logic and consistency.
On the other hand, it’s Sony’s marketing department we are dealing with here, so I guess anything is possible. 😉
This comment makes zero sense in relation to this article about the 3rd version of the RX100 which is a pocket camera. Putting that aside, I still wholeheartedly disagree with what you are saying. Superzoom lenses are optically compromised even when they only have to cover the tiny sensor in most brands Bridge Cameras. Nikon’s own 10-100mm lens for their mirrorless cameras is garbage. If by some dark magic, Sony could produce a optically great 24-2000mm equivalent lens, it would would be huge and make this camera extremely expensive. Just look at the cost of the RX10. There is little market for this camera or lens you’re talking about.
Looks like about 2,5mm larger radius, so 5mm larger diameter at the base. There seems to be also an extra arc in the center of lens diagram. Indicates one more collapsing segment in lens?
Lens in Mk III is larger in the diagram
Indeed. Small diagram difference.
So is it like 10 rx100s? 😉
I want a RX100 Xperia phone even if with just a prime lens.
‘RX1000M3’, I got orgasmically excited for a moment there.
Come on Sony ! Give us the a99II already!
amen
Fall, 2015
If Sony doesn’t abandon a mount…fir the hipster mirrorless…
By show of hands, who on this forum is actually a hipster? Everytime a company of any sort releases a product somebody doesn’t like, they automatically insult others by calling them hipsters. So by your logic, if I sell my NEX 6 today and go buy an A99 I would no longer be a hipster?
What, no built-in EVF?
I hope it’s not too much better than the M2 – I was hoping to buy only one camera this year (A6000) 🙂
SO RX 100 1 the first gos down to 299,- maybe 249,90,- thhhhaadsgooooood…
M……monochrome?
Nope. M3 = Mark III
If it means it has basically the same body as the M1 and M2 we can assume the spec is very similar. I would have thought a different lens like the f1.8-2.8 would almost certainly change the radius and/or position of the lens in the body, meaning that this grip attachment would not be compatible.
I looooove my RX100. Can’t wait to see what the Sony tech. wizards have up their sleeve for the MIII.
I’d wish it comes with a 21-100mm lens
21 would be great even if the long end was 60 – all at f2.8 or better.
Agreed
How often do they release these iteration of RX100? By next Christmas they will be on version 5! I guess that Sony manager (can’t remember if CEO or manager) was dead serious when he said that he would release new camera every 6 months.
One every year since 2012 sofar.
So upcoming Christmas, that’s still likely a version 3.
SONY STOP doing camera bodys!! i want FE lens!!!
Stop functioning as an electronics company until they make a product you want?
that’s not the point…. it’s like having a PS4 without games or having an Ultra HDTV without movies …
They released 5 brand new lenses in 5 months, that is impressive. There are a plethora of full frame a-mount lenses that can produce outstanding IQ, either new Sony a-mount lenses or a ton of economical minolta choices available on eBay, etc. Beyond first party adaptation, practically all lenses can be adapted some with full AF (Canon).
Making other things is not preventing the production of FE lenses. Sony is a large company. If they focused only on FE lenses and nothing else, they wouldn’t be around for very long.
Being an early adopter of anything, be it a game console or camera system generally means waiting for maturation. It was about a year and half until there was an apple App Store or any 3rd party apps after the release of the iPhone 1.
For everything said on sar there are 5 people hollering dont say that.
For anything worth doing theres 100 people hollering dont do that.
u got the point. It’s only 5 months and they already gave 4 Quality Lens already.. and almost already covered a lot of focal length.
That last curved sensor patent mentioned BSI tech which I believe isn’t currently used on FF sensors but is on Sony’s 1″ sensors. Maybe the Mk3 will be the first curved sensor camera. Would explain the faster lens with out a proportional increase in size.
Is your wallet feeling the heat yet? Mine is, and it’s not even summer yet…
Not sure but it looks like there could be a 3rd part of the barrel that extends out (extra inner barrel vs old RX100)?
Perhaps hopefully the m3 version will have a 24-2000mm..yes 2000mm lens..not a typo.
Nikon will be releasing the p700 with 1″ sensor and 24-2000mm f 3.5-8.5 lens …to be anounced in may…. and Sony will need something to compete with it.
Yeah, right, the (rumored) 1.3kg monster is supposed to outcompete tiny and lightweight RX100? Get a clue.
The monster will do birds and animals .
The tiny little camera is useless.
You are correct..there is no competition.
You’re too cute for trolling. Tried gardening instead?
Your profile pic is obscene!!!!
Todays picture is the eye of a bearded dragon.
I have absolutely no idea what you imagine you are looking at or why you find it obsene
Sorry! That make sense. I was just with my girlfriend this evening……lol
I’m sure Sony could respond with a similar camera of their own, but not in the form of an RX100. Why would they suddenly turn a line of pocketable enthusiast compacts into a large superzoom? We don’t need more confusing marketing decisions from Sony.
The superzoom is a new camera it would not turn an existing camera into something else
For everything said or done on this site thers at least five like you hollering dont say that or dont do that.
Think about it.
But the topic here is the mark 3 version of the RX100, which is not a completely new camera, but a successor to an existing model. Your suggestion would be the same as if Canon chose the name 5D Mark IV, not for the successor to Mark III, but for a camera occupying a completely different market niche.
As I said, the superzoom would be a different camera with a different name, not the nominal successor to the RX100 Mark 2. Think about it.
Nikon is about to anounce a series of 1″ sensor mirrorless point and shoot coolpix caneras with several different fixed lenses as a direct compeditor to the sony rx series.
The high end is a superzoom p700 with a 24-2000mm equivelent lens and a 1″ sensor.
This represents a step beyond iether the Sony hx400 superzoom or any of the current 1″ sensor rx cameras.
If sony wants to compete against this camera they need thier own 1″ sensor superzoom camera.
Otherwise Nikon will own a new class of camera…the 1″ superzoom with no competition.
One more thing..why not invent a name for yourself.
That way we are not talking to anonymous
I’m afraid you’re not getting my point. I’m not disagreeing with anything you just wrote in your latest post, but I’m disagreeing with what you wrote in your original post:
“Perhaps hopefully the m3 version will have a 24-2000mm”.
Then you went on saying the opposite, which I fully agree with:
“The superzoom is a new camera it would not turn an existing camera into something else”.
Do you see the inconsistency there? The topic of this thread is a camera named RX100M3, in other words, the third iteration of an existing model line. You first suggested that Sony would make that into something completely different, a superzoom, and then went on to say that the superzoom would be a new camera. But a completely new camera would not be named RX100M3, it would be called something else, say RX1000 or whatever. Therefore, the camera mentioned in the manual is not the superzoom you’re hoping for.
Inventing a name doesn’t make me less anonymous, so I’ll stick with my choice.
The superzoom version would be identical to the other two vesions except for the lens therefore keep yhe name.
You do realize however that this is all speculation as niether of us actually know what Sony is going to do.
Incidentally since you choose to keep the name anonymous does that make you just like all yhe other anonymouses on this site?
You said something dumb, and got pulled for it. Just admit your mistake lol
This is a prediction on a rumor site.
Sony will iether make such a camera or allow nikon to have this market segment uncontested ..we shal see in time.
Canon also has a patent for a 100x zoom lens of 20-2000mm equivelent however thiers would have a 1/2.3″ sensor and compete against the sony hx400.
The heading of yhis post indicates a version of this camera that differs from the others by a different lens.
You people devote a lot of effort to contradict my ideas but absolutely no effort towards offering your own ideas.
So the extent of your opinion is if Barry says it it must be wrong and nothing else.
The idea was offered, you’re just too blind to see it, or don’t read posts at all. Idea from “Anonymous” was, name it RX1000 or something else. I’d say name it – RX20 or RX10sz for “SuperZoom”. It would have RX10 form factor anyways.
You however, first grabbed a post about RX100m3, said multiple times, see vriesk’s post below, that “The tiny little camera is useless”. Which it is to you, but to 90% of people, its actually useful, and your superzoom is useless.
Why in the world would you make RX100 a superzoom? You have RX10 series for that. RX100 is made to be pocketable, not chunky.
You take the coment out of context.
I was responding to s comment implying the superzoom was useless and the pocket camera was usefull by showing from a different perspective how just the opposite is true..it was intended to illustrate the narrow mindedness of the comment rather than an actual statement that the camera is useless.
At this point we are responding to a coment to a coment to a coment and the actual topic has been left behind.
The original topic was a speculation about what the m3 would be.
Knowing that the change is a differrent lens and that the competition is putting a superzoom lens on thier version of this camera a superzoom lens is a very reasonable speculation…..whether or not it turns out to be the correct quess.
If I do indeed turn out to be correct..as is often but not always the case..how many of you guys will come back and retract your negative coments.
Will you retract yours? All most of us are saying, is that RX100 superzoom makes no sense whatsoever, its like Sony making A7r MkII a fixed lens APSC camera….
The point being that a superzoom that you have mentioned, has its place in RX10 range. A point that you have missed, yet again.
“All most of us are saying, is that RX100 superzoom makes no sense whatsoever” ————- I am sure these smart people also know how to carry their superzoom in their pockets, because that was the point of rx100 (which you seems not to get).
Ahem, are you really replying to me? I’ll take that as you accidentally pushed the wrong “reply” button, since i’ve been saying just that to barry.
Or are you trying to say that RX100 is a superzoom?
If i’m getting your reply right, after reading it about 5 times, is that you want rx100 to be a superzoom, which is physically impossible in its small size. You have to go RX10 size in order to be able to fit a superzoom telephoto lens in there. (Which you seem not to get…)
Next time think before you reply. Its not a 1/2.3 sensor, that can handle a 20x zoom lens, while still being thin and light.
A superzoom in the rx10 range would also make sense because this camera also has a 1″ sensor.
Again my only reason fir suggesting the rx100 was the knowledge that there is a mystyry rx100 with a differrent lens.
The form factor of the 10 lends itself to a conventional superzoom bu would still require a larger grip possibly on the lens in order to accomadate a 3lb lens.
Iether possibility makes sense and when sony does. Produce a 1″ superzoom…if…I will indeed make a new comment reflecting my most current knowledge of what they will do.
I have in the past acknowledged when I was wrong and if I am wong in the future I will also acknowlege that fact.
The more I look at it the better I think the rx10 would look as a superzoom and I would be just as happy if they put the 2000mm lens on it.
No. The extent of my opinion is you said something dumb, but feel free to defend what you said come hell or high water.
As anonymous pointed out, if Sony were to create a camera with such a lens, it would surely be a completely new model or RX10 replacement, not an iteration of the RX100.
An RX100M3 with a 20-2000mm equivalent lens… I’m still laughing.
Will that grip turn this into a $3000 camera?
It works for hasselblad.
Wonder what’s different in this version 🙂
Hope it’ll have some improved video features maybe XAVC-S ? But I doubt so lol
Most likely the RX100 will get the BionzX processor and hopefully the recently patented faster lens 28-100mm F1.8-2.8, which I think is plenty!
If it can also get the OS-PDAF of the A6000 would be a killer!
+1
Also add full-sensor readout for video or even 4K (I doubt it) and XAVCS.
I would suspect that the only camera that Sony would add 4K and full readout to in the near future in the Cyber-shot line would be the next RX10.
It seems unlikely that this fits the 28-100mm f/1.8-2.8 lens, but I hope it does.
Uhm… did everyone NOT notice the lack of MI shoe (hotshoe) on top?!
Oh wait, I suppose that is the original? I have one of these grips floating around, might need to make adjustments to it for my new MkIII 😉
So whats the difference between Mk1/Mk2 and Mk3? I can’t see the lens size difference or the grip size difference.
The concentric circles on the lens are slightly different
Ahh, now I see, thanks!
Could it be a larger rumored lens that is pictured here?
I’m pretty sure that the top part is the same as the current manual (showing a mark I)
I’d be very happy if they included a built in intervelometer and wifi that enables you to activate the shutter in modes other than full auto. Any thoughts on this?
those are 100% going to be on RX100m3 , because they are available now on cameras that support apps (like HX400 , A6000, A7 , HX60 ) , so it’s 100% that rx100m3 will support those apps that one of them is a timelapse app , and there is a remote control app that support other modes/
you can visit the camera apps website , and all those features are going to be on RX100m3
playmemoriescameraapps.com
I’m sick of the constant whining about Sony not releasing any new lenses. They ARE delivering new lenses. It just so happens that all the new lenses come with a new body attached also:)
I wish Sony would release a mobile module, with a 1″ sensor. Stick the flattest possible lens in there, maybe a 35 or a 50 equiv, and it will be a winner.
Every mobile manufacturer will run to get a piece of it.
i want that photo machine with aps-c sensor, 1:1.8, 18-90mm (35mm equivalent) fixed lens,built in Evf, built in flash, wi-fi nfc, hot shoe bla boa bla OK? 🙂