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My complaint with the one-touch design is that if you’re not careful, it’s easy to
push the eyecup in when using it, especially if you wear eyeglasses. You just
have to be careful not to put pressure on it because as the eyecup is pushed in,
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which required you to pull the eyecup back before using it, and to push it back
in before collapsing the EVF back into the body.
CONNECTIVITY AND POWER
Sony includes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in the camera and supports them using the
free Sony Imaging Edge Mobile app for Android and iOS. The app works as a
remote control for the camera and also lets you copy photos from its memory
card to your phone.
The included battery is rather small, and it’s rated by CIPA for about 260 shots
per charge, which can be extended to 310 by enabling an automatic sleep mode.
But you’ll be able to exceed those numbers easily when you utilize the 20fps
burst capture liberally.
But for more normal use—a few shots here and there, a few video clips, and
some Wi-Fi transfers—the estimates are a bit generous. I recommend carrying
an extra charged battery or an external USB battery (the RX100 VII charges via
micro USB) when you plan on making images all day.
The camera has one memory card slot with support for UHS-I SDXC media as
well as Sony’s proprietary Memory Stick Duo. I’d like to see Sony drop Memory
Stick support in favor of faster UHS-II SD media, but it has been slow to do so,
even in its full-frame a7 line.
ADVANCED AUTOFOCUS
The big change from the RX100 VI comes with autofocus. Sony redesigned the
camera’s sensor, so it polls its autofocus points more frequently, and covered it
nearly edge to edge with phase-detection pixels.