{"id":4544,"date":"2017-10-24T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:18:36","slug":"sony-hx80-a-camera-with-just-enough-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/sony-hx80-a-camera-with-just-enough-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony HX80 &#8211; A camera with just enough stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-24-11.03.32.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-24-11.03.32-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2017-10-24 11.03.32\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-24-11.03.32-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-24-11.03.32-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-24-11.03.32-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-24-11.03.32-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I&#8217;ve toyed with a number of Sony cameras in the past few months, looking for something that gave good enough results while being easy enough to carry that it doesn&#8217;t get left home. So far, the HX80, while not as impressive a camera as any of Sony&#8217;s RX series, is filling the bill. Granted the Zeiss lens has a narrow range of f stops (3.5-8.0), but it delivers\u00a0up to\u00a030x optical zoom (24-720mm equiv) decent low light performance, a pop up viewfinder and tilt lcd display. All for a list price of $369, though I managed to get mine down around 275 thanks to some credits I had at Best Buy. For that price, it&#8217;s a great camera that slips comfortably into a pocket.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just out of the box, I took the HX80 to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, where the long zoom came in handy. if you check out these shots over on Flickr, you&#8217;ll see some close ups of faces taken at max zoom, which still came out pretty crisp.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elilley\/albums\/72157687416474981\" target=\"_blank\">MD Ren Faire w HX80<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elilley\/albums\/72157687416474981\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4550\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/flickr-ren-faire-set.jpg\" alt=\"flickr-ren-faire-set\" width=\"700\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I&#8217;ve toyed with a number of Sony cameras in the past few months, looking for something that gave good enough results while being easy enough to carry that it doesn&#8217;t get left home. So far, the HX80, while not as impressive a camera as any of Sony&#8217;s RX series, is filling the bill. Granted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}