Sony A300 vs Sony RX100 II

Let's look closer at the Sony A300 vs Sony RX100 II, former being a Entry-Level DSLR while the latter is a Large Sensor Compact and both are built by Sony. There exists a large gap between the image resolutions of the A300 (10MP) and RX100 II (20MP) and the A300 (APS-C) and RX100 II (1") feature totally different sensor measurements.

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The A300 was launched 6 years prior to the RX100 II and that is quite a serious difference as far as technology is concerned. The two cameras come with different body type with the Sony A300 being a Compact SLR camera and the Sony RX100 II being a Large Sensor Compact camera.

Before going in to a more detailed comparison, below is a quick introduction of how the A300 grades against the RX100 II when it comes to portability, imaging, features and an overall grade.

Below is a preview of the gallery photos for Sony Alpha DSLR-A300 & Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II. The complete galleries are provided at Sony A300 Gallery & Sony RX100 II Gallery.

For those who are planning to lug around your camera often, you are going to need to think about its weight and measurements. The Sony A300 offers outside measurements of 131mm x 99mm x 75mm (5.2" x 3.9" x 3.0") with a weight of 632 grams (1.39 lbs) whilst the Sony RX100 II has proportions of 102mm x 58mm x 38mm (4.0" x 2.3" x 1.5") having a weight of 281 grams (0.62 lbs).

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Do not forget, the weight of an ILC will change dependant on the lens you select at that moment. Following is the front view scale comparison of the A300 and the RX100 II.

Factoring in dimensions and weight, the portability score of the A300 and RX100 II is 64 and 89 respectively.

Quite often, its tough to visualise the gap between sensor measurements only by looking at a spec sheet. The photograph here might offer you a more clear sense of the sensor measurements in the A300 and RX100 II.

As you can see, the 2 cameras have got different megapixels and different sensor measurements. The A300 because of its bigger sensor will make achieving shallow DOF simpler and the Sony RX100 II will give you extra detail utilizing its extra 10MP. Higher resolution can also make it easier to crop shots much more aggressively. The older A300 is going to be behind in sensor technology.