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I was going to make this a DP Review post but …. I have enough to say I thought it was worthy of a post. So this is Why and How I took and made a Sony RX100 M2 Dust, Scratch, and Dent Protection and STILL Pocketable.
I talk a lot about why I got this camera in my previous post here . So I won’t go into that again. So I got the Sony RX100 M2 and I love it. I still love my Canon 5D Mk III but for different reasons. The Sony can do 90% of the stuff that the Canon can do but with a much smaller sensor. However that sensor is still much larger than almost all the other compacts. But enough about that.
The camera was over $740. Add in another charger, battery , and some SD memory cards and you getting close to $800. The main reason I got this is that I can slip it into my pocket and carry it ALL the time. But here is the problem. Try as hard as I can. I still will screw up and drop some coins in that same pocket…. or my set of keys….. or a pockect knife. My pocket, even when I am being careful, can be a dangerous place for a nearly $900 camera.
So the first thing I did was get some protection for the LCD screen. It came down to a couple. The Sony PCKLM15 screen protector and the Expert Screen Protector (links to both at end of post). I found that the Sony seemed to have more good reviews…. although both got good reviews. I put it on after one week. While I was putting it on…. I found a tiny scratch in the black border of the LCD screen…. And I KNOW that camera never came in contact with anything hard. Well at least I thought I knew. This is another good example of the danger zone of my supposedly empty pocket. So I put the Sony LCD protector on. It went on easy and I am happy with it.
But what about those flimsy lens blades.
I know several people, inlcuding myself, who have dented or dirtied blades like that in other digitals and caused them to freeze and not work anymore. This seems to be another weak point for my pocket danger zone.
There is a nice Sony leather form fitting case and others will likely come out. They look great but I think they would fail the pocketablity criteria of easily slipping in and out of my pocket. In addition that adjustment screw knob on the bottion will not allow you to set the camera down evenly unless you take the case off. I also looked at small camera bags but they add too much bulk to the camera and again fail in pocketability.
Then my DSLR brain kicked in. It needs a Lens CAP!!!! I measured the outside ring on the front of the camera and its about 58.13mm. So I order a cheap 58 lens cap. Well it turns out that a 58mm DSLR lens is really something larger than that. I don’t have any 58mm lenses handy but based on the 58mm cap I got… a real 58mm lens must be about 59+mm in dia. The cap fit the Sony but was too loose for my taste. So I lined the ID of the cap with a couple of circumferential strips of black electricians tape about 3mm high.
The reduced ID of the cap now fits snugly on my Sony.
But what about scratches and misc. dirt and lint on the other parts of the camera. Well I did a search on this camera and bag alternatives. I found one guy who used a soft cloth case that came with sunglasses. Turns out I have the same case. So you can see what I have here:
And here it is in the Bag.
The camera goes into and out of the bag easily. And the bag goes into and out of my pocket easily. I can put the cap back in the bag and then put the bag back in the pocket if I will be shooting for a while. AND…. the bag can even be an emergency lens cleaning cloth!!
So my $900 investment is nearly 100 % safe from the dangers of my pocket and I am carrying now every day without fear!
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