Following my decision to sell the Olympus OM-D EM-5, I've picked up this little gem of a camera as my M9 companion.  It was only a month ago, how I praised the OM-D complimented the M9... it's still true, but I didn't realize that it also overlapped the M9 in many areas, which caused me to rethink (see last post).  I'm still looking for the same features: fast auto-focus, zoom lens, macro, video.  All of them are now satisfied by the Sony RX100, in addition, it's also very pocketable!  What I have done, is to remove the overlapping areas with the M9: no additional lenses to acquire, no fight for spaces in my bag, image quality no where near the M9.  The last one may sound funny, but here's my logic...  Since the small point-and-shoot (P&S) is in a completely different league from the M9, I'd never have to debate with myself which one to bring (bring both!) or which one to use.  This should help me concentrate my photography on the M9 and I will only use the RX100 sparingly or when situation requires.

As many other reviewers have said... this is probably the best P&S camera I've ever owned.  With a 28-100mm equivalent focal length, it covers all common useful ranges.  Plus a f/1.8 aperture on the wide end, it's capable of producing some background defocused bokeh shots, if the subject is close enough.  20 megapixels on a 1 inch sensor produce a high quality image that no P&S camera has ever seen.  The speedy autofocus is accurate and reliably track the subject, which is more than I can say about the OM-D.

It has also picked up quite a few nice features from the Sony NEX cameras that I liked, such as the various picture effects and customizable buttons.  It did not, thankfully, inherit the bad menu system from the NEX cameras.  High quality camera that's smaller than my wallet... what more can you ask for?

With this camera, I won't be trying to produce the same shots that I would with the M9.  In fact, I might even just take the JPEG output from the camera instead of RAW because I don't plan to spend much time tweaking the photos I take from this camera.  It's meant to be fun and carefree!  I think that's why the extra picture effects will make it that much more enjoyable.

Here are just some fun shots off the "first roll", so to speak...