Our Overall Score:
9.7/10
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Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £649
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Cameras or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Cameras category and even loads of options of products from Sony so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera scored an incredible 9.6/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Cameras” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Cameras. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Sony are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Cameras, so you’d expect Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Cameras: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Cameras, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Sony, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera scored highly with 9.7/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera for is just £649 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera.
Prices of products in the Cameras category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Cameras category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 138 products in the Cameras, and of these 138 products the average price was £786.29, making Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera below average at £649. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £64.99 whilst the most expensive was £2799.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 252 products less expensive and 173 more expensive than Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Sony.
Prices of products from Sony
So the average price of the 252 products available from Sony was £545.61, making £649 above average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £9999.00 and the cheapest at £7.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Sony that fit in to the category of Cameras rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 20 products from Sony in the Cameras category, the average price is £781.15 making Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera below average at £649. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £159.00 and the most expensive was £1899.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 31 products from Sony that were more expensive and 34 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera scores 9.9/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
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Overall score
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera got an amazing overall score of 9.7/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 9.7/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Cameras.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Sony so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Camera
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: RX100 IV
- EAN: 4548736017078
- Description: The Sony RX100 IV enters a new world of super-speed shooting. Featuring a breakthrough in cutting edge functions including a 1.0-type stacked CMOS sensor, 40x super slow motion and Anti-Distortion Shutter, the pocket-sized camera holds super potential. Zeiss optics The DSC-RX100 IV sports an all new bright f/1.8-2.8 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 24-70mm zoom. This lens is perfect for portraits and macro shots with beautiful defocused backgrounds. A premium multi-layered T coating also dramatically reduces ghosting and flare caused by light reflection. Technology behind the picture Boasting the world’s first 1.0-type stacked CMOS image sensor with DRAM chip, 40x super slow motion and up to 1/32000 sec. Super-high-speed shutter is enabled. The extended circuit features a higher signal processing capacity and more than five times faster high-speed readout than conventional models. Better still, the RX100 IV features the high-speed BIONZ X processor for more natural details, more realistic images, richer tonal gradations and lower noise while shooting photos and movies. And thanks to the new super-high-speed image sensor, the camera features accelerated readout speed that helps to achieve continuous shooting up to 16fps. Record in 4K Capable of recording in 4K Ultra HD for up to five minutes, the RX100 IV is ideal for capturing memorable frames. Pro-grade XAVC S codec ensures beautiful footage with high bitrate so the recording is second to none, even when viewed on a Full HD TV. The camera can even shoot high-quality still images of 17MP while recording a movie. The new Auto Dual Rec release function lets the camera automatically take the photographs in a choice off frequency release – high/standard/low settings. OLED viewfinder View every scene in rich detail with the bright and retractable electronic viewfinder (EVF). The viewfinder delivers a high resolution equivalent to 2359k dots to display the subtlest details for precise composition. EVF eye piece optics are treated with ZEISS T coating to reduce unwanted reflections for a clear corner-to-corner visibility. 180¬∞ tilting screen Selfies and framing have never been easier with a 3‚Äù tiltable LCD screen. High and low positions are now in shooting distance which offers greater flexibility in capturing creative compositions. Remote camera control When the RX-100 IV is connected to a computer, you can use Remote Camera Control to capture pictures or change settings on the camera. Simply download the application of a version which supports your PC.
- Product ID: 3379343705
- Category: Electricals > Cameras & Camcorders > Cameras
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