Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love this little camera. My previous camera was a Canon S100, and I loved it, too. But I really wanted the wi-fi functionality so that I could share pictures with friends and family at moment's notice and not have to wait until I got home (which, half the time I would forget to do anyway). The wi-fi feature works very well. You can upload photos directly to your phone or tablet by connecting to the camera's built-in wi-fi hotspot. Or you can upload pictures directly to the web by connecting the camera to a wi-fi hotspot with internet connectivity. Both ways work great. Before this one I bought a Sony RX100M II. Great little camera, but it wasn't really pocketable (yes, you could fit it into a jeans pocket, but you would probably hurt yourself if you tried walking with it). Also, the menu wasn't as intuitive or smooth. Plus, it was rather slow to navigate between images in playback mode, not something I was used to since owning the S100, which was very quick. You can't go wrong with either camera, and it really depends on what you value more. For me, the size and weight of the camera was more important than slightly better image quality of the Sony. I wanted a camera that I could bring with me anywhere and not worry about it, and this one is perfect for that. I had both cameras to compare side by side. In terms of portability, even though the size & weight look pretty similar on paper, it's no contest when it actually comes down to carrying the camera - Canon S120 wins. If I was going to carry the Sony, it would always be in hand or in a case. That defeats the whole point of having a pocketable camera. I might as well carry a larger & better camera if I'm going to carry it in a case. While the image quality was slightly better in the RX100M II (especially in low light), it wasn't *that* much better. After carrying around both cameras for a week, I definitely prefer the Canon in terms of portability. I could slip it into my jeans or jacket pocket and forget about it - not something I could say about the Sony. Both cameras are built like a tank - fantastic build quality. However, I think that the Canon would probably survive a fall onto concrete/marble floor better than the Sony, which has an articulating screen & huge lens. Pros of the Canon S120: - Small, lightweight, & most importantly pocketable!!! - Quite a bit cheaper than the Sony RX100M II ($450 vs $750) - Wider angle (24mm vs 28mm) - Longer optical zoom (5x vs 3.6x) - Touch screen is very nice - useful for manual focusing, menu navigating, picture browsing, etc - Faster, smoother, and more intuitive user interface - the Sony user interface felt much slower - Better optical stabilization - I noticed that I got more sharp pictures hand-held at night than with the Sony (on auto mode) - Built-in neutral density filter - can do really cool motion blur effects during daytime - Better automatic mode - closer to the way I want the pictures exposed - skin tones in particular are more natural looking - Very cool built-in HDR mode - Continuous 9.8fps burst mode until the card fills up - that's awesome! (very few cameras have this) - Clicky selector ring around the lens - the Sony also has one, but it's smooth (no click feedback), and therefore harder to select settings accurately. I found myself under-rotating or over-rotating the ring when trying to select settings on the Sony. Pros of the Sony RX100M II that I will miss: - Sweep panorama - great feature - I don't get why Canon still didn't get this one - 20MP - awesome detail - you can really use digital zoom with so many pixels - Huge 1" sensor - better quality pics in the dark, but not *that* much better - Longer battery life - no big deal as extra batteries are small enough to carry - Extremely fast focus & shutter - a little faster than the Canon - Long flash range - you can also manually tilt the flash to bounce off of the ceiling - Articulating screen - can tilt the screen in different directions - NFC quick connect feature - very quick tap & connect on some NFC enabled phones