Sony RX100 III for Landscape Photography

Is the Sony RX100 III good for Landscape Photography?

Sony RX100 III Landscape Photography Score

AVERAGE

Sony RX100 III has a score of 44 for Landscape Photography which makes it an AVERAGE candidate for this type of photography. If Landscape Photography is important for you, we recommend you to check the Alternative cameras at the bottom of this page.
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Sony RX100 III Landscape Photography Detailed Analysis

Manual Exposure Mode

A correct exposure of a landscape shot is very important. Even though modern digital cameras features advanced algorithms to calculate the right exposure, they still may fail some difficult conditions. Manual exposure mode in these conditions helps a lot in order to achieve correct exposure.

Manual Focus Mode

With the manual focus mode, you can make fine adjustments to have the perfect focus.

24 mm - Good Wide Angle Coverage

Even though there are very good examples of landscapes photos taken with tele lenses, most of the landscape photos are taken with wide angle lenses.

RAW shooting capability

RAW files contains much more color information compared to JPEGs, and gives you more room for post processing without significant quality loss. They provide wider dynamic range and option to recover shadow and highlight clipping to some degree.

Very High Resolution Sensor: 20.0MP

Sony RX100 III's 20.0MP sensor is perfect for landscape photography. It will capture a lot of fine details and let you print them larger.

Average sized 1″ (13.2 x 8.8 mm) sensor

Sony RX100 III's 1″ (13.2 x 8.8 mm) sensor size doesn't provide image quality of larger sensors but it is still much better then compacts with typical small sensors.

No Environmental Sealings

Landscape photographs are taken outdoors and you should be prepared for all kind of weather conditions.

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Sony RX100 III Alternatives in Large sensor compact cameras for Landscape Photography

Leica Q2 Compare RX100 III vs Q2	47 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 28 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #22 Rank in Compact Cameras: #1
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street 93 Sports Daily 90 Landscape

Sony RX1R II Compare RX100 III vs RX1R II	42 MP \| Full frame BSI-CMOS Sensor 35 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #49 Rank in Compact Cameras: #2
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street Sports Daily Landscape

Zeiss ZX1 Compare RX100 III vs ZX1	37 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 35 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #80 Rank in Compact Cameras: #5
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street Sports Daily Landscape

Leica Q Compare RX100 III vs Q Typ 116	24 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 28 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #52 Rank in Compact Cameras: #3
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street 93 Sports Daily Landscape

Sony RX1R Compare RX100 III vs RX1R	24 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 35 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #160 Rank in Compact Cameras: #12
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street Sports Daily Landscape

Leica Q2

Sony RX1R II

Zeiss ZX1

Leica Q

Sony RX1R