Sony’s RX100 VI adds a long zoom lens to the best compact camera

Sony’s RX100 series cameras have been some of the best point-and-shoots you can get over the past few years. Today, Sony is introducing a new model, the RX100 VI, with one particularly notable change: a really long zoom lens.

The previous model had a 24-70mm equivalent lens, which didn’t take you much farther than the human eye. This new model reaches from 24mm to 200mm equivalent, providing a huge magnification. It’ll make the camera a much better choice for, say, photographing a student at a graduation ceremony.

In exchange for the zoom, the camera’s aperture is changing from f/1.8-2.8 to the somewhat slower f/2.8-4.5. But Sony says it’s improved the lens’s optical image stabilization, which is now supposed to add four stops of speed....

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