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The RX100 series has a one inch sensor, but the image quality is on a par with my A6000. They all have a Sony/Zeiss lens with built in lens correction. I find that going up to ISO800 is very possible. Now, I use RAW and Adobe RAW converter. That enables me to control luminance and sharpness on the full original 16 bit image. Just a careful choice of Luminance and sharpness for an acceptable end result.

Colblimp: 'Sony is due for delivery tomorrow. Exciiiiiited!!!!!'. I think you will enjoy your RX100M3. I have had one for a few years now and probably most of my Alamy images since the acquisition have been delivered by this little gem. Buy a spare battery if you shoot extensively during one outing. I recently purchased the newer RX100M6 (24-200) as I missed the reach beyond the M3 24-70mm in 35mm speak, but the M3 is going nowhere as it is faster. Can't see a difference in image quality, but because of the Corona Virus usage has been limited. For my photography I use aperture priority at typically 7.1-8 range and most of my changes relate to ISO. I shoot raw as I like the control over the final image. The image pass from Adobe RAW through PS and sometimes into Skylum Luminar 4 for slight adjustments to dull images. If I need speed or video I revert to my A6000s as the RX100 is small and fiddly. Horses for courses. For convenience, combined with quality, the RX100 series is unbeatable - at least in my opinion.

I bought Luminar 4 principally for the sky replacement feature. Use it now and then, but also find the A1 function and the landscape Enhancer useful. Improves the colour of foliage and can add a bit of 'gold' to a dull image. Not sure if it is a plug-in, but find it under Filters in PS Cloud. I find the Luminar Looks crude and not usable on Alamy. Unlike most contributors above I dislike the LR interface and much prefer to select from Bridge into RAW and then to PS with occasional visits to Luminar 4 when required. Bought Affinity Photo at the discounted price of £23.50. Not used it yet. It is my 'fall back' if I decide to ditch LR/PS subscription. May do that if sales continue to fall due to the Corona virus situation. Notice that most sales are now at below $10. Bought the Sony RX100M6 due age requirements for lighter equipment, but not been able to use it yet due to the lock-down here in UK. Not convinced it is worth-while now to spend money on taking pictures for sale on Alamy.

I have five stars and maintain a rigid system of checks before submitting in batches varying in size depending of what is usable from a particular session. All pictures are prepared in Camera Raw with only light changes to 16 bit Jpegs in PS Cloud. Never make changes in 8 bit. All images are checked carefully at 100%. If I feel an image is not up to standard at full size I reduce down to 24Mp. If I need to go below 24Mp it is a reject. I then look at every picture again enlarged to fill the full size of my 27in screen. I look first at all the edges and margins and then check the sky from one side to the other and back. I occasionally find blemishes I missed at 100%. I think this is because of the overall view you get of the whole picture. I use FastStone image viewer for this final check, but open up in PS to rectify. I look out for birds, spots, unsharp, luminance, fringing etc. I never sharpen images in PS. Only contrast type sliders.

Many thanks for your comments. I tried Capture One Sony Express but could not find out how to even export images and gave it up. I guess I was impatient and did not read the instructions. I think I will have another look. Problem is that the Camera Raw/PS development route is 'automatic' for me. No need to learn new tricks. GIMP is complicated and need a new approach. I actually have both installed. I am waiting for LR/PS pricing for 2020 and will make a decision on what to do then. I will not participate in making LR/PS even more of a 'golden goose' for Adobe. I will certainly have another look at the free Capture One. My sales in numbers are up compared with last year, but value down. No wonder when you can make a licence sales like this one of a perfectly good image this month: Country: Worldwide Usage: Editorial Media: Editorial website Industry sector: Travel & tourism Image Size: Any size Start: 10 December 2019 End: 10 December 2024 NU Editorial website and app multiple use, in perpetuity $1.25 A lot of the other sales are below $10 gross. This appears to be the market now so we have to adjust the cost/benefit courve.

I shoot RAW & Jpeg. 99% of files opened are RAW using Camera Raw. I do most adjustments in Camera Raw including shadows/highlights. Mostly I do a very slight shadow/ highlight adjustment together with contrast in PS. I really mean slight just to lighten shadows a little and increase mostly the sky/clouds presence also a little keeping an eye on the histogram. RAW adjustments do not reduce image quality the same way as PS tonal adjustments do.

Currently using Camera Raw/PS for image development and awaiting PS Cloud price increase for 2020. Thinking of moving to Imaging Edge for my Sony A6000/RX100M3 if increase unacceptable. I am uncertain about PS intentions. Looks like newly released Edge has fringe adjustments in Lens Correction section. Has anyone been using Edge with one of the free photo applications such as Luminar 4 and/or GIMP with good results? I actually purchased Luminar 4 at the discounted price and find it useful as long as moderation is employed. It installed itself as a separate program as well as a plug-in to PS so transferring an image from PS to Luminar 4 and back is seamless. With the depressing sales revenue now available, there comes a time when operating costs will have to be looked at. Alamy has licensed perfectly good pictures of mine at less that $2 and most are below $5. The $40-60 and above images are getting fewer and fewer. Definitely not viable to pay serious money to go taking stock images. I am really only taking images mostly as an adjunct to leisure except locally. I don't see any improvements in the future.

Just purchased license to Luminar 4 at £64.00. Planning to use it as a 'plug-in' to Photoshop Cloud to 'improve' on cloudy images or adding more interesting skies without going over the top. Not coming out until November. I would not use it as a stand alone application. Too used to PS now.

I just looked at the sky replacement feature in the forthcoming AI driven Luminar 4 and wondered how Alamy quality control would view these conversions. I presume that if the image still looked realistic then, all else being within their quality control parameters, the image would pass. It seems that one can make a realistic conversion from a grey sky to sunny without going 'overboard'. Looking at some of the images others have uploaded here, quite 'colourful' images seem to be acceptable.

Having been in business all my life I cannot see how a $1.50 gross sale can be cost-effective unless it is fully automatic without human involvement.

Got two of them. One with 10-18 W/A zoom and the other with 18-135 zoom. Gives me 15-200mm in 35mm speak w/o lens change. Great for 99% of what I do. Got 55-210 zoom as well to give me reach to 315mm. A gear stored out of reach. RX100M3 for pocket and walk about. Never any fails with these cameras. All processing in Adobe Cloud Raw and PS. Don't see a need to upgrade now.

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I have the RX100M3 and started with the original model without finder. Before that I used the LX2 and then the LX3, which was fine as long as the sun shined. The small 10Mp sensor could just make 24Mb as was the requirement then. Now 100% Sony. My bag consists of two A6000 with latest .21 firmware update. One has the 10-18/4 fitted and the other the new 18-135mm giving me (in 35mm speak) uninterupted 15 to 200mm reach. I also have the 16-50mm in the bag and sometimes separately the 55-210mm zoom extending my range to 315mm. I am amazed how these four lenses all can provide almost perfect images across from corner to corner at 100% without cropping - 68Mb opened. (In sunshine with ISO400 max I would say). I was reviewing all the digital cameras I have had and some sold again from the venerable R1 with Zeiss 16-80 fixed through A700/A350/A550/A580/A58 as well as NEX-3/5N/6 all because of improvements in sensor size and performance. Actually, the A700 would still be good enough, if I could carry it with requred lenses. I have now reached the buffer stop on the acquisition journey. I cannot see how newer cameras or lenses can make a necessary improvement over what I have for my type of photography. Sure there are better ones such as full frames and single focal lens wonders, but I don't need them and weight is now an important consideration. I went to Sony after having had Minolta equipment for years and have not regretted the move. Sure other makes are good, but not better than Sony.

Theoretically Alamy have not changed their IQ requirements and the size requirement has gone down to 17Mp Jpeg. On the other hand they were desperate for images to start with. I also started with film, but transparancies at 100ASA and they were scanned with a Minolta Dimage dedicated slide scanner. I re-did some, but submitted these at 24Mp after some work in Photoshop. They passed without problems. There is really only one way to find out and that is to re-submit and hope for the best. If you have three stars you may not want to run the risk. If you doubt they will pass then I would recommend you don't do it unless they are rare and might sell at a decent price. If they did not sell before why now?