Sony RX10 Mk V
Stabilized 24~600mm eq. Lens, Silent 30 FPS at 20 MP
Stereo 4K/120 video (2026-)
World's Best Super Zoom Camera
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Sony RX10 Mark V (72mm filters, 39.1 oz./1,110g with battery and SD card, super close-focus, $2,298). bigger.
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
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Old Model RX10 IV (2017 ~ 2025)
Older Model RX10 III (2016 ~ 2017)
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
Sample Images top
More samples throughout this review at Bokeh, High ISOs, Macro, Spherochromatism and Sunstars.
These are just snapshots; my real work is in my Gallery.
These are all shot hand-held as LIGHT JPGs; no tripods, no STANDARD, FINE or EXTRA FINE JPGs or RAW files were used or needed.
Sharp!
1963 Impala, Cruise Night, Encinitas, California, 6:24 PM, Thursday, 16 July 2026. Sony RX10 Mark V in 4:3 crop mode at 20.4mm (58mm eq.) wide-open at f/4 at 1/1,000 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 14.0, Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 18 MP (4:3 cropped) © 4.3 MB JPG file.
Bob's, La Costa, California, 2:13 PM, Tuesday, 14 July 2026. Sony RX10 Mark V at 12.1mm (32mm eq.) at f/8 at 1/160 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 13⅓), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 20 MP © 4.3 MB JPG file.
Sharp Indoors Wide-Open Hand-Held
I don't need no stinking tripod! The Mark V's stabilization is so good that tripods went obsolete years ago:
Panda Express, La Jolla, California, 5:32 PM, Tuesday, 14 July 2026. Sony RX10 Mark V at 11.2mm (30mm eq.) wide-open at f/2.8 hand-held at 1/20 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 7.3), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 20 MP © 4.5 MB JPG file.
Public Baths, San Diego, California, 11:56 AM, Tuesday, 21 July 2026. Sony RX10 Mark V at 9.1mm (24mm eq.) wide-open at f/2.4 at 1/50 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 8.2), exactly as shot. bigger or camera-original 20 MP © 4.6 MB JPG file.
600mm!
This is from the previous RX10 Mk IV because atmospheric conditions weren't clear enough to make these shots with the Mark V when I wrote this. If the old camera looks this good, imagine how great the Mark V will look in the same conditions:
Hot air balloon, from two miles away! 05 April 2018. Sony RX10 Mk IV at 220mm (600mm eq.) at f/4 at 1/640 at Auto ISO 100, Perfectly Clear. bigger or full-resolution file or camera-original © file.
Since I've taken my RX10 Mk III extensively to Hawaii and Yosemite, you'll see many image samples from the Mk III as well as from the Mk IV where they are relevant:
Sunset, Hawaii, 2016. Sony RX10 Mk III at 600mm equiv. (220mm actual), f/5.6 at 1/1,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger.
Macro!
Back in 2016 I took the then-new RX10 Mk III to Hawaii for a week or two of vacation and was astounded at how great my shots look, even ten years later today in 2026.
If the ten year old RX10 Mk III looks this good, just imagine how great this new Mark V will (sorry, no Hawaiian vacation for me this year):
Anole, Hawaii, 2016. Sony RX10 Mk III at 600mm equiv. (220mm actual), f/4 at 1/250 at Auto ISO 320. bigger or full-resolution © file.
Starlight!
Yosemite Falls by Moonlight, 9:28 P.M. 13 May 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 30mm equiv. (10.8mm actual), f/2.8 at 30 seconds at ISO 800. bigger.
Landscapes!
Yosemite Falls, 2016. Sony RX10 Mk III at 125mm equiv. (44.9mm actual), f/4 at 1/50 at Auto ISO 100. bigger.
Roots, Merced River, Yosemite, 11:02 A.M, 13 May 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 28mm equiv. (9.8mm actual), f/2.5 at 1/160 at Auto ISO 100, split toned print. bigger.
Hawaiian Torch at Sunset over Lahaina, 2016. Sony RX10 Mk III at 24mm equiv. (8.8mm actual), f/11 at 3 seconds hand-held at Auto ISO 500. bigger.
The image stabilizer makes it trivial to use slow shutter speeds with long focal lengths to shoot flowing water hand-held:
Running River, Yosemite, 7:26 A.M, 13 May 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 185mm equiv. (67.5mm actual), f/8 at 1/25 hand-held at Auto ISO 100, split toned print. bigger.
God Beams at the Base of Yosemite Falls, 8:07 A.M, 13 May 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 52mm equiv. (18.9mm actual), f/8 at 1/30 hand-held at Auto ISO 100, split toned print. bigger.
Here's a sunset snap at 35mm equivalent; about what we got with an iPhone ten years ago:
Sunset in Palm Trees, 14 June 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 35mm equivalent (13.3mm actual), f/3.2 at 1/160 at Auto ISO 100.
And here's what you get zoomed-in:
Sunset in Palm Trees, Waikoloa, Big Island, 14 June 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 500mm equivalent (187mm actual), f/4 at 1/200 at Auto ISO 100. bigger.
The whole point of ultra-tele lenses is that you can turn every ordinary little sunset like this into an epic sunset by zooming in. By filling the frame with whatever little red there is, BAM!, the whole frame explodes with color. These are JPGs essentially as they came from the camera without any color fiddling.
Another advantage of an ultra-tele is that you make the disc of the sun huge. In this case I didn't move between these two snaps; I just zoomed-in. The palms you see in the better image are a very long way away. The very long lens enlarges everything to make a strong shot out of a dull one.
You have to consider depth of field; long lenses have very little. In this shot the trees are in focus, and the water beyond is not.
Watch the Skies!
Jetliner 35,000 feet above Yosemite Valley, 11:48 A.M, 13 May 2016. 2016 Sony RX10 Mk III at 600mm equiv. (220mm actual), f/5 at 1/1,000 at Auto ISO 100. bigger.
Crop from above image. You almost can read the tail number! Not bad for an object 7 miles away shot with a small hand-held camera.
Introduction top
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The Sony RX10 Mk V is Sony's best camera. Instead of having to buy and carry a slew of interchangeable lenses, the included fast f/2.4 ~ f/4 zoom covers everything from 24mm wide to 600mm ultra-tele — as well as macro, and the lens and camera together focus extremely quickly and easily track every kind of sports and action for great shots at 30 FPS.
The smaller sensor of the RX10 V, exactly like the previous RX10 IV (2017~2025) and earlier RX10 III (2016-2017), allows ZEISS and Sony to create an amazing lens that does so much more in a much smaller package than anything possible in APS-C or Full-Frame.
This is because the laws of optics have a lot of exponents in them, which means that even though the RX10's sensor has only a 2.8× crop factor, the actual amount the lens' elements have to move to focus are reduced much, much, much further than in larger cameras. Therefore tiny movements of the lens' elements give us instant focus from macro to infinity and fantastic stabilization. Bravo!
It's so good, so competent and so much fun to use that it's addicting. Once I picked it up, I couldn't stop shooting with it; there isn't anything it doesn't seem to do well, all without ever having to change a lens. I haven't shown sports shots here, but even the Mark III from ten years ago easily tracked players all over the field in ways that full frame cameras couldn't.
Sony sold the previous RX10 IV for eight years from 2017 ~ 2025. It was selling new for $1,799 when it was discontinued in 2025, and at the end of June 2026 people were paying $2,000 or more for used Mark IVs before thins Mark V came out (of course used Mark IVs have dropped now).
The Mark V is good at everything and priced accordingly. It is loaded with decades of Sony's expertise in image sensors and has a superb ultrasharp Zeiss lens. Quality doesn't come cheap.
It's an excellent camera with an extraordinary 24~600mm equivalent zoom lens. It's sharp and focuses super-fast at all focal lengths. I never run out of range; its zoom goes and goes and goes and never seems to stop. It's about a stop faster than other long telephoto zooms, with a fast f/4 at the long end.
The RX10 V has a fantastic viewfinder, built-in stabilization and great high-ISO performance so it's easy to shoot hand-held under any light.
It's superb for sports; it really does lock-on to faces and track them as they run down the field, and its non-rolling electronic shutter lets it run silently at 30 frames per second as it tracks everything.
It's fantastic in that not only can I get head shots out on the field at 600mm, and that I don't have to change lenses to cover the close-in shots before and after the game. Want a camera for shooting surfing from shore? Here you go!
Its fantastic long lens makes it ideal for bird and nature shooters, paparazzi, surveillance, law enforcement, code compliance, homeowners' associations and nosy neighbors giving great, tight shots in any light silently from any distance, all without looking like a big scary camera to frighten your game. I can fill the frame with a person down at the pool from the tenth floor of a resort. I can look down the coastline from my balcony and see which tables are occupied at a restaurant three miles away!
The RX10 Mk V's silent shutter lets newsmen, corporate and industrial photographers cover anything without intruding. Concert, medical and drama photographers and private investigators will love it, too. It really does do everything well: ultra-wide, ultra tele, macro, low light, sports, action and you name it.
Sony's cameras have come a long, long way in the past few years, and the RX10 V is astonishing in how much it does so well. For most things for most casual photographers, this RX10 Mk V will make more and better photos faster than an interchangeable-lens camera. This Sony will save you the trouble of having to change lenses and settings all the time; once set, it just goes faster than most people can juggle a mirrorless system to do the same thing — and it has a much better shutter and flash system than any mirrorless.
The Mark V's only real competition is that the eight-year older RX10 Mark IV and ten-year old RX10 Mark III do everything almost as well. While I had no problem shooting sports at 5 FPS with full tracking with a ten-year old RX10 Mark III, the RX10 Mark IV runs at 24 FPS with full tracking, which is more than enough. The Mark V runs at 30 FPS, which I'll call a wash. The takeaway is that all three of these cameras work magnificently!
If you use flash, and I always do for daylight fill, there is a HUGE difference among these three models. While all three have ultra-fast 1/1,000 to 1/2,000 flash sync due to their leaf shutters, and the RX10 Mark IV and RX10 Mark III each have an excellent built-in flash, this Mark V has NO built-in flash.
Get an RX10 Mark IV or RX10 Mark III instead if you ever use flash; the built in works great (much better than in other cameras) and makes better pictures with it than the V makes without flash.
A cool fact is that Sony pulled the standard dedicated hot shoe contacts from both theRX10 Mark III and RX10 Mark IV, but for the past ten years I never thought to look since the built-in flash worked so well in the older cameras! The old RX10 Mark III and RX10 Mark IV also have the newest "multi-interface" contacts for use with modern Sony-compatible flash like the Godox iT32.
The Sony HVL-F28RMA or Godox iT32 are the best flash to get for the Mark V if you use flash for fill, while honestly I'd rather use the built in and not have to buy and carry another flash to do what the built-in does for free in the older cameras. Remember, with the superb leaf shutter and ultrafast sync speeds of all of these three cameras, even the built-in has plenty of power in direct sunlight for great fill.
A huge plus is that the Mark V charges via modern universal USB-C, while the old Mark IV and Mark III have no USB-C connection and instead charge over Micro USB, if you can find a cable for it.
The RX 10 V shoots at up to 30 FPS with full tracking autofocus, handles very well and makes-great looking photos. My RX10 V's pictures are always sharp, clear and well-exposed, better than I get from many other cameras that require more fiddling from shot to shot. This camera just gets out of the way by setting itself instantly and delivering fantastic pictures.
Video is superb, and even has Slo-Mo options that allow you to wait to trigger your recording until after your action (think bubble popping) happens! See Usage.
It's made in Thailand and charges via USB-C.
Auto ISO works great; it's easy to set the minimum and maximum ISOs as well as the minimum shutter speeds. Better, it's just as easy to program the slowest speed to vary with focal length, and we have several options to shift it (all automatically) from there. Auto ISO also saves and recalls with the Memory Recall modes.
If its 600mm equivalent lens isn't enough, digital zoom works great when you shoot at the lower resolution settings I use since it simply crops accordingly without having to resample, keeping the images just as sharp as optical zoom!
The electronic viewfinder (EVF) is always at the perfect brightness from night to direct sunlight. It's always sharp, colorful, and seems as if it's live with no apparent delay. EVFs have come a long way in the past few years, and Sony's are the best.
It can shoot completely silently. No one knows I took any pictures.
My RX10 Mk V shoots instantly, fast enough even for drive-by-shooting, and my pictures look fantastic as-shot with no tweaking needed. This is what a camera is supposed to be; I can't help but love this Sony to death!
That's 99% of my review; the Sony DSC-RX10 Mark V is a superb camera. It's easy to poke fun of super-zoom cameras because earlier ones were so fuzzy, slow and had to be held at arm's length, but once you shoot with the RX10 Mk V, you'll find it hard not to love. It's quite an advance in the state-of-the-art in ultrazoom cameras - and so are the very similar RX10 Mark IV and RX10 Mark III.
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
It's not shipping until about August 6th 2026, and then only to the first people who've ordered them. You have to you have to order yours today and be patient. It's so popular that impatient people have already paid $3,000 each to get the first ones because they didn't order as soon as they could have.
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
New Compared to the RX10 Mk IV intro top
Overall look, feel and menu systems now mirror the A7 series and other interchangeable-lens Sony cameras.
No more built-in flash. Boo! 🤮
Uses the larger NP-FZ100 battery rather than the NP-FW50 lithium ion battery. Like most mirrorless cameras, I can get 10,000 shots on a charge if I'm making long continuous sequences of shots (think sports) rather than shooting a frame at a time.
Rated 570 shots, up from 370, with the finder.
Lens is now only marked as a 9.1 ~ 210mm (23×) lens, down from from 8.8 ~ 220mm (25×). It still shows same 24~600mm indicated equivalent focal lengths.
New sensor based on the RX100/7, but otherwise is the same as before.
30 FPS with full AF tracking, up from 24 FPS with full tracking.
0.5" OLED finder, up from 0.39"
0.78× finder magnification, up from 0.70× at 50mm equivalent.
3.68 Megadot finder, up from 2.36 Megadots.
575 AF Phase-Detection focus points, up from 290.
Adds an important Auto mode to the AF subject selection options.
New rear control nubbin.
New 10 Gbps USB-C connector, and retains the Micro-USB connector as well.
Now can save the complete camera state to a file to the memory card.
No more top LCD, so the mode dial moves to the right of the finder where we want it, hooray!
AF-ON button instead of AEL button (feel free to program it as you like).
A simple AF/MF slide switch replaces the more flexible multiposition AF-S, AF-A, AF-C ,DMF and MF lever.
Frame-rate boost button .
Four-channel digital audio recording via the digital interface in the hot shoe.
Tiny 3" LCD is now 1.62 Megadots, imperceptibly up from 1.44 Mdots.
LCD tilt range is now 120º up, up from 107º up, and now down 44º, up from down 42.º What goes up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?
Now made in Thailand, not China.
Has rolling electronic shutter distortion. I can't recall there being any in the older cameras. The mechanical leaf shutter of course has none.
Top electronic shutter speed is now only 1/16,000, down from 1/32,000.
Faster video frame rates; 4K now up to 120 FPS.
Under- and Over-crank video modes now on a mode dial (marked as "S&Q;" slow and quick-motion).
Two memory recall modes on the top mode dial, with a total of 12 available if you use the menus.
Now works with UHS-II SD cards.
No longer compatible with Sony Memory Sticks.
Adds 5 GHz Wi-Fi. So?
No more cable release socket.
Higher price.
Same as 2017's RX10 Mark IV and 2016's Mark III
For the past ten years, none of these basics have changed:
Same indicated equivalant focal lengths.
Same f/2.4 ~ f/4 maximum apertures at the same focal lengths.
Same near-instantaneous voice-coil focus system.
Same Leaf Shutter System.
Same 20 MP Resolution.
Same sensor size (but supposedly newer, based on RX100/7 sensor).
Same ISO range: 100 ~ 12,800, as well as pulls to ISO 64.
Almost the same tiny 3" LCD with about the same tilt range.
Still just one SD card slot.
MENU button still on the wrong (left) side, requiring a second hand to set it.
Good intro top
Images as good as from an interchangeable-lens mirrorless camera.
Fantastic lens with huge zoom range works well at everything without reservations.
Outstanding flash performance — but only with an external flash. Blazing 1/1,000 to 1/2,000 sync speed allows even a small flash to outperform much larger flashes on most interchangeable-lens cameras for exceptional daylight fill-flash!
Fantastic macro ability.
New automatic subject type recognition.
No distortion, at least as I shoot it.
Super-fast autofocus.
Perfect exposures.
Good color rendition.
Quiet leaf shutter and/or completely silent electronic shutter.
30 FPS with full tracking autofocus and exposure.
Additional zoom lever is a faster way to get from one end of the zoom range, and lets us shoot and zoom with only one hand.
Superb live finder looks perfect in any light.
Bad intro top
No more built-in flash. Boo! 🤮
3:2 default sensor aspect ratio tends to need cropping more often for more subjects than the ideal 4:3 ratio.
Touch-screen keyboard still uses a 1970's touch-tone telephone style keyboard for text entry; very clumsy!
Card and battery door has no spring on the locking catch, so unless you remember to lock the door manually by sliding that latch, the door flips open. Better designs use a spring-latch so just closing the door locks it.
Missing intro top
No more built-in flash. Boo! 🤮
No more cable release socket.
No automatic electronic/mechanical shutter mode.
No battery & card door latch, so you have to move the lock manually so it stays closed.
Flash won't work with electronic shutter.
No GPS (use the app and it gets that data from your phone).
Specifications top
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
It's not shipping until about August 6th 2026, and then only to the first people who've ordered them. You have to you have to order yours today and be patient. It's so popular that impatient people have already paid $3,000 each to get the first ones because they didn't order as soon as they could have.
Image Sensor
5,472 × 3,648 pixels native (19.96 MP).
8.8 × 13.2mm, also marketed as "one inch," which it is not. This "one inch sensor" is nowhere near an inch in size and much smaller than a mirrorless sensor. It's not much bigger than a cell phone camera's sensor.
2.745× crop factor.
3:2 native aspect ratio, with 3:4, 16:9 and square (1:1) crops available. I program a button to allow fast selection of the different crops.
ISO
ISO 64 ~ 12,800; ISO 100 is optimum.
Auto ISO
Adjustable for high and low limits from ISO 100 to ISO 12,800 in full stops.
Autofocus specifications top
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
575 Phase-Detection points.
AF-S, AF-C, AF-A, manual and DMF modes found in a menu (only an AF/MF switch on the camera).
Lens specifications top
Actual Focal Lengths
9.1 ~ 210mm.
35mm Equivalent Focal Lengths
This 9.1 ~ 210mm lens sees the same angles-of-view on the RX10 Mk V's sensor as a 24 ~ 600mm lens sees on a 35mm or full-frame camera.
Diaphragm
9 blades.
f/16 minimum aperture at all focal lengths.
Defeatable aperture clicks with a slide switch on the lens barrel:
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
Maximum Apertures specifications top
35mm equivalent |
Maximum aperture |
24mm |
f/2.4 |
24.5 ~ 26mm |
f/2.5 |
27 ~ 34mm |
f/2.8 |
35 ~ 53mm |
f/3.2 |
55 ~ 97mm |
f/3.5 |
100 ~ 600mm |
f/4 |
Zooming specifications top
It zooms either via the electronic zoom ring or the little lever around the shutter. The lever has two zoom speeds and the ring seems to have many.
It retracts just a little as zoomed from 24mm to 75mm equivalent, and at 78mm equivalent is back at the 24mm mark on the barrel. From 78mm to 600mm equivalent it gets longer and longer and longer.
It's a pumper zoom, getting much longer as zoomed and retracts when off. See how it zooms at Ergonomics.
Hood specifications top
A plastic bayonet hood is included:
Sony RX10 Mk V hood. bigger.
It doesn't do much because it has to be short enough for 24mm.
Shutter specifications top
Mechanical Leaf Shutter
1/2,000 to 30 seconds.
The leaf shutter only runs to 1/2,000 at f/8 and smaller. At f/7.1 and wider the top speed is only 1/1,000 because the leaf shutter blades need more time to traverse the larger area.
If you need faster speeds use the electronic shutter:
Silent Electronic Shutter
1/16,000 to 30 seconds.
Frame Rates
Up to 30 FPS.
Flash specifications top
There is NO built-in flash.
Flash syncs at every mechanical shutter speed, which is 1/1,000 at all apertures and 1/2,000 at f/8 and smaller.
Flash will not work with the electronic shutter.
The Mark V's "multi-interface" shoe requires a flash with the newest 9-pin shoe connectors like the HVL-F28RMA, HVL-F46RM or HVL-F60RM2. Older Sony flash like the HVL-F20AM won't work properly on the Mark V.
The hot shoe has 20 pins with power for use with all sorts of microphones and other accessories, but no traditional dedicated hot shoe contacts for older dedicated flashes.
Personally I suggest the Godox iT32 with the X5S Sony module.
Still Formats specifications top
JPG and/or raw.
20MP, 10MP and 5MP JPG image sizes.
Adobe and sRGB.
Video specifications top
Up to 3,840 × 2,160: 119.9p, 100p, 59.94 p, 50p, 29.94p, 25p, 23.97p.
Audio specifications top
Recorded only along with video.
Stereo microphones built in.
Mic-in jack with plug-in power overrides built-in mic.
Headphone jack.
Finder specifications top
0.5" OLED.
4:3 aspect ratio.
3.68 Megadots.
0.78× magnification at 50mm equivalent.
Auto brightness control.
-4 to +3 diopters.
LCD specifications top
Tilting LCD, Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
3" (7.5cm) diagonal.
3:2 aspect ratio.
Swivels up 120º and down 44º, but not left or right.
No anti-reflection coating.
1,620,000 dots.
Connectors specifications top
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
Mic-in jack with plug-in power overrides built-in mic.
Headphone jack.
Micro D HDMI.
10 Gbps USB-C 3.2 Gen 2.
Micro USB.
WiFi specifications top
WiFi 5.
802.11ac.
5 and 2.4 Gigacycles.
Storage specifications top
One SD, SDHC or SDXC card.
UHS-I and UHS-II.
Body specifications top
Mostly plastic, with weather seals.
Power specifications top
Battery
NP-FZ100 lithium ion battery.
Rated 570 shots with the finder or 630 shots with the rear LCD.
Charging
Charges via USB-C, and the camera can run from USB power so long as there's a battery installed.
Quality specifications top
Sony RX10 Mk V. bigger.
Made in Thailand.
Size specifications top
5.4 × 3.7 × 6 inches, WHD.
136.4 × 94.5 × 151.3 millimeters WHD.
Weight specifications top
39.140 oz. (1,109.5 g) with battery and SD card, actual measured.
Rated 39.2 oz. (1,111 g) with battery and SD card, 36.2 oz. (1,026 g) stripped.
Environment specifications top
Operating: 0 ~ 40º C (32 ~ 104º F).
Model Number specifications top
Sony calls this the DSC-RX10M5.
Included specifications top
Camera.
Shoe cap.
Lens cap.
Lens hood.
NP-FZ100 battery.
Shoulder strap.
Announced specifications top
Thursday, 09 July 2026.
Available specifications top
Shipping since 25 July 2026 in the UK.
Promised for 06 August 2026 in the USA.
Price, U. S. A. specifications top
20 ~ 27 July 2026
$2,298 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama; $2,29999 at Amazon.
People have already paid an average of $3,000 used at eBay, which is $700 more than ordering it new and being patient for it to arrive.
Performance top
Overall Autofocus Manual Focus Bokeh Distortion
Falloff Exposure Ergonomics Finder Flare & Ghosts
High ISOs Macro Mechanics Noise & Vibration
Sharpness Spherochromatism Stabilization
Sunstars Zooming Movies Rear LCD
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
It's not shipping until about August 6th 2026, and then only to the first people who've ordered them. You have to you have to order yours today and be patient. It's so popular that impatient people have already paid $3,000 each to get the first ones because they didn't order as soon as they could have.
Overall performance top
The RX10 Mk V is a real eye-opener. Sony has pulled out all the stops to give us a camera that honestly gives us a one-piece alternative to a full-frame mirrorless and several zooms in a much smaller package.
This camera is as fast and just as good optically as my bigger cameras —and I don't have to change lenses. Yes, its sensor isn't much bigger than in my iPhone, but sensors are so good today that it doesn't matter, and by using a smaller sensor Sony has been able to design a lens around it that does things that no larger lens can do. Sony has decades and decades of experience making video cameras with long-range zooms, and many decades of sensor experience (I was an application engineer for Sony's CCDs over 30 years ago!), and they've put all this together into one fantastic camera.
If you need a camera with a great ultrawide to ultra-tele lens, this is the best there is. I can't get a lens with this broad a zoom range for any mirrorless camera at any price.
Autofocus performance top
Autofocus is fantastic. It's fast and sure in any light, even with moving targets.
Manual Focus performance top
The great news is that I never need manual focus.
If you do need it, there's a selector switch on the lens.
There is no instant manual-focus override; the manual focus ring is ignored except in the DMF and Manual focus modes.
DMF gives instant manual override, but only from the AF-S autofocus mode.
Bokeh performance top
Bokeh, the feel, character or quality of out-of-focus areas as opposed to how far out of focus they are, is excellent, even if things never get that far out of focus due to the shorter actual focal lengths compared to interchangeable-lens cameras.
Here are photos from headshot distance wide-open. I'm focused on the DAVIS logo. Click any for the © camera-original file:
Made-in-U. S. A. Davis 6357 Vantage Vue Wireless Sensor Suite (use with WeatherLink console), Tuesday, 14 July 2026. Shot at 1/4,000, 1/2,500, 1/2,000, 1/1,600, 1/1,250 and 1/1,250 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 14.3 ~ 14.6).
Click any for the camera-original © file.
As with all lenses, shoot at the 600mm setting at f/4 focused as close as possible for the softest backgrounds.
Distortion performance top
At shot as JPG, the RX10 Mk V has no visible or measurable distortion at any setting, meaning any correction would require a factor of less than ±0.10 in Photoshop's Lens Correction Filter.
The camera is smart enough to correct any lens distortion automatically, so you never see it either in the finder or in your photos.
I suspect if you shoot raw and use non-Sony software to open the file that the distortion may not be automatically corrected as I suspect is happening as I shoot it.
Falloff performance top
Just as with Distortion, falloff is automatically corrected, so there is no visible light falloff (darkening) in the corners.
Exposure performance top
As I expect from mirrorless cameras, exposures are almost always perfect, regardless of how crazy the light.
The Program exposure mode is optimized to shoot at large apertures to minimize diffraction for the sharpest results. The extremely high linear resolution of this camera's small sensor exaggerates softening due to diffraction. If you shoot at smaller apertures, even at f/8 you will get softer results than at f/4. The superb Zeiss lens is ultrasharp, even wide-open.
The large apertures give the softest possible backgrounds. If you want smaller apertures; just turn the rear dial to shift the program.
Ergonomics performance top
It gets much longer as zoomed, and the lens collapses when OFF or asleep:
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There are two programmable memory presets on the top dial, and a total of 12 if you find the others in the menu system.
Card labels face back towards you while popping them in next to the battery.
There is a little plastic tip that pops out from between the zoom and focus rings, so the camera sits well on a table without banging the rings or the front of the lens.
Under the lens there is a slide switch to disable the aperture ring clicks if you like.
I love having a Focus Lock button, but it is not in an easy place to use it. It needs to be further forward, where the manual focus ring is. Sadly the manual focus ring rarely does anything, but it's right where our fingers go and is usually what we want to move. The zoom and focus ring positions should be reversed.
It goes to sleep after a few minutes of disuse and retracts the lens automatically. While asleep, tapping the shutter or menu button wakes it back up and erects the lens back to the same zoom setting. If you turn it off, it wakes at the 24mm setting.
The Playback-mode button-function markings aren't in blue; they're in the same white as everything else, making it more confusing.
1970s-style keyboard makes it a pain to enter text for my copyright notice.
The aperture ring lacks an A setting, so we still have to select the A mode on the top dial to activate this. Fuji and Contax cameras do this much better.
One has to slide the bottom door lock manually to get it to stay closed; there is no spring to do this automatically as we close the hatch.
There is no color histogram while shooting, and oddly it takes a moment to calculate color histograms on playback.
The MENU button still on the wrong (left) side, requiring a second hand to set it.
Finder performance top
The electronic view finder (EVF) is superb. It's always sharp and colorful in any light, from daylight to night time inside or out.
The diopter adjustment is well out of the way, so it stays where you set it.
Bravo, Sony!
Flare & Ghosts performance top
Flare and ghosts are a bit less well controlled than other cameras, but still nothing I notice unless I go out of my way to excite them.
See examples at Sunstars.
High ISO Performance details dark detail performance top
There's no mystery to comparing cameras; I shoot this same test at all the ISOs in every other camera I review so you can compare for yourself. Caveat: I repainted these walls white from their previous tan as of the beginning of 2023, so the background wall won't match in older reviews, and this set is lit by natural light which is different every day.
Complete Images High ISOs details performance top
As seen at normal image sizes below, the RX10 V pretty much makes the same images from ISO 64 (L) to ISO 3,200.
ISO 6,400 gets a very little bit blotchy, and ISO 12,800 gets blotchier, but still quite usable if I need it for normal-sized images.
This is typical performance in 2026; all cameras work just fine for online image sizes at insanely high ISOs. Honestly I never use anything above ISO 10,000. If you have to use five-digit ISOs you're doing something wrong, and no one needs six-digit ISOs other than for fooling around. Photography is all about light and lighting, so if you have no light, you should be working on improving that light rather than worrying about which camera makes the least awful photos in bad situations.
Click any for the camera-original © LARGE LIGHT JPG files (about 5 MB each):
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (about 5 MB each).
Fine Details: 600 × 450 Pixel Crops (9.12× magnification) High ISOs details performance top
Here are crops from the same images as above, showing the clock on the right.
I must apologize: I have my sharpening set as high as I can (+9), and therefore it's increasing the visible noise. Set to its normal strength there is much less noise, but not to worry: what's important is the signal (subject detail) to noise ratio, not the absolute level of each, because we always can sharpen or add noise reduction to our images afterwards to taste.
What we see at the high magnifications below is that fine details go away as the ISO increases. This happens with all cameras (and our own eyes) and is an artifact of the noise reduction working harder as the ISO increases.
In the RX1- V, the most detail is at ISO 64 (L), and becomes softer at every higher ISO. This is normal and how noise reduction works in every camera.
ISO 64 is a "pull" ISO, and thus has more highlight contrast. This usually increases perceived highlight detail, and can lead to clipped highlights if you have too much subject contrast, as in the case of the window reflection in the glass of the clock face.
By ISO 1,600 most of the detailed scrollwork between the clock numbers is gone.
By ISO 6,400 the minute marks are mostly gone.
By ISO 12,800 all the detail is gone from the clock face, leaving only the numbers. Even the second hand is starting to disappear.
It's normal in all digital cameras for details to go away at higher ISOs. The differences between cameras are in how much detail is lost, and at what ISOs.
These are 600 × 450 pixel crops.
If these are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 18½ × 28" (50 × 75 cm) at this same magnification.
If these are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 37 × 56" (1 × 1.5 meters) at this same magnification.
If these are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 75 × 112" (2 × 3 meters) at this same extreme magnification.
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files:
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (about 5 MB each).
Macro Performance performance top
Macro performance is wonderful.
At 24mm it gets so close that it's difficult to get any light on our subject because it's right in front of our lens.
For best results, shoot at the 600mm end so you can stand far enough away to get light on your subject and not make it look funny.
There's no need for any macro buttons; it simply focuses right up to the front of the lens at the wide setting. It focuses so close that you'll have a hard time getting light on your subject, since it's pretty much touching the lens:
It has different close-focus distances at different focus length settings, giving the largest magnifications at the ends of the zoom range, with the best results at 50mm and 600mm. It gives slightly more magnification at 50mm, but there's not much working room in front of the lens, so I skipped it here (see samples at different focal lengths in my RX10 IV review).
Wide Open at f/4
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch at close-focus distance at f/4 at 600mm at 1/1,250 at ISO 100, 14 July 2026. bigger or camera-original © file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (4.56× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 9¼ × 14" (25 × 35 cm) at this same magnification.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 18½ × 28" (50 × 70 cm) at this same magnification.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 37 × 56" (1 × 1.4 meters) at this same magnification.
At f/8
It's actually a bit softer where it's in focus at f/8 due to the laws of physics. f/8 shows a lot of diffraction (softening) on this small sensor, so avoid these smaller apertures unless you need depth-of-field. This ins;t a flaw of the lens, it's limitations of the fabric of the universe. An advantage is that you'll see that the wide-open f/4 example above actually has lots of depth-of-field as things go in macro.
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch at close-focus distance at f/8 at 600mm at 1/400 at ISO 100, 14 July 2026. bigger or camera-original © file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (4.56× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 9¼ × 14" (25 × 35 cm) at this same magnification.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 18½ × 28" (50 × 70 cm) at this same magnification.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 37 × 56" (1 × 1.4 meters) at this same magnification.
Mechanics performance top
The RX10 Mk V is mostly plastic.
The only metal exterior parts of the RX10 V are its focus and zoom rings, exposure compensation knob, strap lugs, tripod socket and screws.
Everything else is plastic. The top cover, mode dial, zoom lever, shutter button, power switch, top buttons, lens filter threads, lens front barrel, aperture ring, lens rear barrel, focus mode switch, focus lock button, left and right sides, grip, both connector covers, memory card door, bottom cover and the battery door are all plastic.
The RX10 Mk V's lens has to motor out and then back in every time it turns off. These complex and delicate plastic mechanisms eventually break or get jammed, but people usually replace these cameras at about the same time the warranty expires. This isn't a LEICA M3 or Hasselblad 500 C/M that will still be working well 50 years from now. Like all digital cameras, this is something you buy to take loads of great pictures for the next few years, and then replace with something even better three or four years from now.
The good news is ever since I reviewed my first RX10 Mk III in 2017 that I've not heard any reports of dead RX10s. They seem more durable than pocket-sized point-and-shoots which usually die of erectile disfunction from small amounts of grit getting lodged in their tiny erectile mechanisms which make those cameras completely flat when turned off.
Noise and Vibration performance top
The RX10 Mk V has a quiet leaf shutter; much quieter than a LEICA and certainly quieter than any focal plane shutter.
Even better, the RX10 V also has a completely silent electronic shutter. In this mode, the RX10 shoots completely silently; no one will know you've taken any pictures.
Sharpness performance top
The Zeiss lens is superbly sharp at every setting, especially wide-open where you most often will be shooting.
The Program auto exposure often shoots wide-open, and the darn thing is always super sharp throughout the entire frame, even at 600mm.
If you're not getting sharp pictures, you're doing something wrong, like letting your subject move or shooting through heat shimmer at longer zoom settings, or foolishly shooting at a higher ISO. Let Auto ISO and Program mode do their work and shoot at ISO 100 with the lens wide-open for the sharpest photos.
Spherochromatism performance top
Spherochromatism, also called secondary spherical chromatic aberration or "color bokeh," can cause colored fringes on out-of-focus highlights, usually seen as green fringes on background highlights and magenta fringes on foreground highlights.
Spherochromatism is common in fast lenses of moderate and long focal lengths when shooting contrasty items at full aperture. It goes away as stopped down.
Spherochromatism is when the spherical aberration at the red and blue ends of the color spectrum (which together make magenta) is corrected differently than in the middle of the spectrum (green).
Spherochromatism is an advanced form of spherical and chromatic aberration in a different dimension than lateral color fringes and therefore cannot be corrected with software or automatic corrections.
The great news is that after all this explaining, this lens has no significant spherochromatism:
Mondaine A132.30348.11SBB at close-focus distance at f/4 at 600mm at 1/3,200 at ISO 100, 14 July 2026. bigger or camera-original © file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (4.56× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 9¼ × 14" (25 × 35 cm) at this same magnification.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 18½ × 28" (50 × 70 cm) at this same magnification.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, the complete image would print at 37 × 56" (1 × 1.4 meters) at this same magnification.
Image Stabilization performance top
Optical Image Stabilization (OIS, IS, OSS or VR (Vibration Reduction)) works well, with three to four real-world stops of tested improvement.
We're all different, and I can get 100% perfect tripod-equivalent sharpness hand-held almost all of the time at 1/8 at 24mm, 1/15 at 50mm, 1/30 at 100mm and 1/125 from 250mm to 600mm.
"Percent Perfectly Sharp Shots" are the percentage of hand-held, free-standing with no support or bracing, frames with 100% perfect tripod-equivalent sharpness as viewed at 300% on a 100 DPI monitor.
Looking at images at 300% on my 100 DPI monitor from 2½ feet (76cm) away are the same as scrolling around a 15 × 10 foot (4.5 × 3 meters!) print, from just 2½ feet (76cm) away — and images are still perfectly sharp most of the time hand-held at 1/8 of a second. Bravo!
Of course we all will get different results hand-holding. While your speeds will vary, the number of stops of improvement should be the same for all of us regardless of who's shooting.
Hand tremor is a random occurrence, so at marginal speeds some frames will be perfectly sharp while others will be in various stages of blur — all at the same shutter speed.
This rates what percentage of shots are perfectly sharp, not how sharp are all the frames:
At 24mm eq.
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 1s |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
20 |
40 |
90 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
93 |
100 |
100 |
I see 3½ stops of real-world improvement.
At 50mm eq.
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 1s |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
30 |
20 |
60 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
50 |
83 |
100 |
I see 3 stops of real-world improvement.
At 100mm eq.
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 1s |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
0 |
10 |
70 |
78 |
95 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
15 |
16⅔ |
70 |
100 |
I see 4 stops of real-world improvement.
At 246mm eq.
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
1/500 |
1/1,000 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
15 |
10 |
20 |
50 |
80 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
16 |
30 |
70 |
100 |
I see 3½ stops of real-world improvement.
At 600mm eq.
This also applies with the digital zoom options, which shoot at the same 600mm setting:
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
1/500 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
0 |
0 |
23 |
10 |
28½ |
90 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8⅓ |
5 |
30 |
100 |
I see 2 stops of real-world improvement.
Sunstars performance top
With a 9-bladed rounded diaphragm, I get soft but reasonably strong 18-point sunstars on brilliant points of light mostly at the smaller apertures.
Ignore the crazy rainbow dots at small apertures; these are sensor artifacts caused by interference among the divisions between pixels on the sensor. These are made visible because we're using enough exposure to show the dark underside of a huge palm tree, and then putting the blinding disk of the mid-day sun in it. Doing this will show everything due to the insane lighting range.
Click any to enlarge:
Click any to enlarge.
Zooming performance top
This incredible lens zooms very well. It's easy to set precise framing with the zoom ring, and just as easily you can use the little zoom lever in front of the shutter button to get in-range quickly. The zoom lever works at two speeds.
The finder reports the equivalent focal length as you zoom from 24mm to 600mm, while the file's EXIF (and file information in Playback mode) reports the actual focal lengths from 9.1 to 210mm.
In A mode, the lens always uses the aperture set on the aperture ring from f/4 to f/16. The lens has a variable maximum aperture, but the aperture ring has fixed markings. If you set wider than f/4 and the lens can't go there at longer zoom settings, no worries, the lens simply uses its widest aperture.
I find the zoom ring is too far back; I often turn the front (focus) ring by mistake. The functions of the focus and zoom rings should be reversed.
Movies performance top
I didn't spend much time with movies. Sony's been defining the state-of-the-art in video cameras for way over 60 years, so I doubt there's much I can add.
Not only does it shoot all sorts of high definition and 4K content; it also runs at frame rates up to 120 FPS for slow motion.
Rear LCD Monitor performance top
The LCD is sharp, bright and colorful - but TINY and no match for any iPhone.
It has no auto brightness control, but always seems to look well in any light.
I rarely use the rear LCD; I prefer the electronic finder, but to each their own.
The rear LCD pivots up or down, but not left or right, and it can't flip far enough for self-portraits.
Playback performance top
You have to turn on the RX10 and let the lens motor out to play. You can't just hold the PLAY button.
Playback is fast and fine; no difference here from other Sony models.
The finder has a 4:3 aspect ratio and the rear LCD is 3:2.
If you shoot 4:3 crops, the image has black bars on the sides while shooting, but in playback, the 4:3 images grow to fill the entire finder compared to standard 3:2 images.
All image shapes fill the screen when zoomed.
Shots made in continuous mode usually play back grouped together, not as individual shots. This makes it a pain to review them, but easy to delete them all at once.
Data performance top
Card Formatting
Cards are not titled properly. They are titled as "Untitled" instead of being titled something meaningful like "SONYRX10."
Image Sizes and Crops
At lower resolution settings, the RX10 Mk V is nice in that it tends to retain the same amount of megapixels as the crops are changed. In other words, if shooting at 10 megapixels as I usually do, you get 10 megapixels at either of the native 3:2 or cropped 4:3 settings.
Vertical Shots
Like most digital cameras, vertical shots are merely flagged for rotation and not actually rotated. No one notices unless you try to view the image in software that doesn't recognize the rotation flags.
JPGs
JPG files are expertly coded; file sizes vary with image complexity for constant quality.
They are tagged as 350 DPI.
Daily Folder Creation
I LOVE how I can set it to create a new folder each day. See Usage for how.
Power & Battery performance top
My battery seems to run forever on a charge, so I see no need for a spare NP-FZ100 for even a hard day's shooting.
Like most mirrorless cameras, I can get 10,000 shots on a charge if I'm making long continuous sequences of shots (think sports) rather than shooting a frame at a time.
Mine draws 13 watts (9 volts at 1.5 amperes) charging via USB-C.
User's Guide top
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
It's not shipping until about August 6th 2026, and then only to the first people who've ordered them. You have to you have to order yours today and be patient. It's so popular that impatient people have already paid $3,000 each to get the first ones because they didn't order as soon as they could have.
See my separate Sony RX10 Mk V User's Guide.
Recommendations top
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
It's not shipping until about August 6th 2026, and then only to the first people who've ordered them. You have to you have to order yours today and be patient. It's so popular that impatient people have already paid $3,000 each to get the first ones because they didn't order as soon as they could have.
Get one; I'm astounded at how this one amazing camera can replace an entire mirrorless system.
It's especially great for people who need an ultralong lens; if a 24-70mm is enough, the RX100 Mk V is about the same thing in a much smaller package, but if you need 600mm for sports and nature and sunsets and surveillance, there's nothing like the RX10 V (or the older RX10 Mk IV or oldest RX10 Mk III). This is not your mom's point-and-shoot.
Sony has come a long, long way in recent years, and as you can see this RX10 Mk V may be the only camera you need for everything.
See also my separate Sony RX10 Mk V User's Guide.
Protection
I never use the hood; it doesn't actually do anything. I leave my hood in the box for resale time.
I use a clear (UV) protective filter instead of a cap (exactly like an iPhone) so I'm always ready to shoot instantly. I only use a cap when I throw this in a bag with other gear without padding — which is never. The UV filter never gets in the way, and never gets lost, either.
The very best protective filter is the 72mm Hoya multicoated HD3 UV which uses hardened glass and repels dirt and fingerprints.
For less money, the B+W 72mm 010 MRC MASTER, Hoya 72mm NXT Plus and even the most basic Hoya 72mm multicoated UV all work great to protect this lens with varying degrees of environmental toughness, while the Hoya HD3 is the toughest and longest-lasting in the field.
Filters last a lifetime, so you may as well get the best. The Hoya HD3 stays cleaner than the others since it repels oil and dirt.
All these filters are just as sharp and take the same pictures, the difference is how much abuse they'll take and stay clean and stay in one piece. Since filters last a lifetime or more, there's no reason not to buy the best as it will last you for the next 50 years. Filters aren't throwaways like digital cameras which we replace every few years, like it or not. I'm still using filters I bought back in the 1970s!
Where to Get Yours
I'd get the RX10 V at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Amazon or at Adorama, or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
It's not shipping until about August 6th 2026, and then only to the first people who've ordered them. You have to you have to order yours today and be patient. It's so popular that impatient people have already paid $3,000 each to get the first ones because they didn't order as soon as they could have.
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