" I returned at the end of the day to find it "on"--lens extended with a depleted battery!

I did not use the camera, and the battery was drained afterwards

And it's the lightest and thinnest one of the five models and has great battery life unlike the newer ones.

I have pulled this camera out on trips after charging it and the battery is exhausted

I can charge it all night and then pull it out the next day to use and i get"battery exhausted" message

RAW capability- customisable colour modes for JPEG shooting (contrast, saturation, sharpness, etc.) and a very nice B/W preset, which looks a lot like B/W film- high quality video output (when using AVHCD) with full manual controls- good battery lifeCons:- startup/shutdown times are not really that fast- constant autofocusing in AF-s mode is a little annoying (can be turned off by switching to DMF, but then the front control wheel cannot be set to anything but manual focusing)- can get quite warm after prolonged use- controls can be small for some people (camera is similar in size to the canon s90, LCD has the same size, but controls are smaller)- AVHCD video has to be converted/repackaged and deinterlaced before it can be used in some editing software- large lens barrel can sometimes get in the way, especially when shooting close ups of objects or manipulating the front control ring- charging from standard USB port (laptop) via cable takes a very long time (up to 5 hrs)Bottom line:highly recommended, especially for the current priceSimilar products used:Canon s90, Nikon DSLR

I noticed after a week that every time I tried to use it the battery was dead.

Maybe on the next version.-Battery door: yes most compact cameras have a cheap battery door

No good with a dead battery.

Crazy Battery Life: This doesn't always get mentioned, but it's important to me

I asked if this problem is a known problem in their database and that this is the recommended solution to it, she admitted that they don't have information on such a problem yet and that hopefully the battery is the problem and to try it out and if it doesn't work to call them again and at that time maybe I may need to send in my unit to Sony for fixing

However, I do appreciate that a genuine Sony battery is around $30; very reasonable in my book

Now it has taken to draining fully charged batteries within hours, when the camera is not even turned on

The battery drained much faster than I expected

Traditional focal range display8.info battery provide precise battery level( % battery display like NEX)

Good battery life

My old Panasonic took $50 genuine batteries

Yet, using Micro USB, it means I can also use a more generic "portable battery" that works for many devices instead of buying a spare battery, though it may seems more bulky.

so you might lose battery (and uh-oh, even have the lens extend with two presses) if you don't protect the play button in your pocket

Fuji XQ1 is something I waited for for months just to realize they failed in their attempt to copy Sony - mediocre lens and poor battery life just because they wanted to fit it into a very small body.

Great battery life

These off brand batteries work just as good as the Sony battery that came with it

battery is generally good in this

One hypothesis is that the playback button (which powers on the LCD and not the camera) will get pressed in a pocket or bag and drain the battery

Nov 7, 2012I called Sony to see if they could resolve the issue and after three transfers and thirty minutes wait they agreed that it was either a faulty battery or a shorted circuit in the camera draining the battery.

RAW capability- customisable colour modes for JPEG shooting (contrast, saturation, sharpness, etc.) and a very nice B/W preset, which looks a lot like B/W film- high quality video output (when using AVHCD) with full manual controls- good battery lifeCons:- startup/shutdown times are not really that fast- constant autofocusing in AF-s mode is a little annoying (can be turned off by switching to DMF, but then the front control wheel cannot be set to anything but manual focusing)- can get quite warm after prolonged use- controls can be small for some people (camera is similar in size to the canon s90, LCD has the same size, but controls are smaller)- AVHCD video has to be converted/repackaged and deinterlaced before it can be used in some editing software- large lens barrel can sometimes get in the way, especially when shooting close ups of objects or manipulating the front control ring- charging from standard USB port (laptop) via cable takes a very long time (up to 5 hrs)Bottom line:highly recommended, especially for the current priceSimilar products used:Canon s90, Nikon DSLR

a TOY camera effect then.- Rich B/W effect - i would really like to use this effect for shooting portraits, however in this mode the camera makes makes 3 shots and joins them into 1 image

Some people do it but most of us need a good camera to take pics on various occasions.2) Size - I went on my honeymoon and took freaking DSLR and man all the time I was missing a

I am questionable though that I can have a pic that is clear as hell till I blow it up as a

Focus is so quick that you rarely ever miss a

I'm wondering what else will not work quite as I expected, without the purchase of some other "extra"

I am really confused as to why anyone would want to record in a silent mode?

It performs as well as or even better than a lot of entry level mirrorless and DSLR cameras at higher price tags than the RX100

I'm sure I never learned the S100 as well as it can be learned, but I've had this Sony for less than a week, and I already feel more control over my picture taking than I did with the S100.The autofocus is great.

Yes, I know this is probably the worst e-mount lens, but honestly I don't see any other options taking into account the need for something really compact.