Should You Buy This Camera

Sony RX100 IV

Compact · Fixed Lens · released 2015-06-10
Lowest now
$559
Good price -44% vs MSRP
See prices at 3 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$999
Jun 2015
Inventory
15
across 3 sources

Prices are rising

How we compute this

Used prices have been rising recently. Prices are up 90.1% over the last 30 days. The 90-day low was $294, $265 below today. Currently 56% of the $999 MSRP.

Lowest now
$559
MSRP
$999
vs MSRP
-44%
90-day low
$294
All-time low
$294 (May 3, 2026)
30-day trend
+90.1%
Observed across 3 sources · 79 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
bh
excellent
→ excellent
$1,150
1 Observed yesterday view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$559
ships free
4 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$884
4 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$979
5 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
like new
→ mint
$1,079
1 Observed yesterday view listing

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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Specs

Brand
Sony
Family
Sony RX
Category
body
Body type
Compact
Mount
Fixed Lens
Sensor
1-inch
Megapixels
20.1 MP
Lens type
—
Sensor family
Sony 1-inch 20MP stacked (RX100 IV/V/VA)
Autofocus
Contrast Detection
AF system
Sony contrast AF
IBIS
no
Weather sealed
No
Max video
4K30
Max native ISO
ISO 12,800
Weight
298 g
Dimensions
102 × 58 × 41 mm
Body material
aluminum
Released
2015-06-10
Status
likely discontinued

Notes

manual MSRP

Autofocus & action

AF system
Contrast detect
Focus points
25 contrast-detect
Subject detection
Human face
Burst (mechanical)
5 fps
Burst (electronic)
16 fps
Pre-burst capture
No
Card slots
1 (Single SD UHS-I)
Sensor readout
Stacked BSI

First RX100 with stacked 1-inch Exmor RS sensor; 16 fps Speed Priority locks AF/AE at first frame; contrast-detect only.

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Measured dynamic range

Bill Claff's lab measurements of how much shadow-to-highlight range this sensor holds, plotted across the full ISO range. Higher is more latitude to recover a dark frame.

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Measurements by William J. Claff. We link rather than reprint them.

Sample photos

Real-world photos taken with this camera, grouped by EXIF data on Flickr.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
#1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.