Sony Debuts New High End Digital Camera

[Suhit Gupta]

http://news.designtechnica.com/article8285.html

"Sony today said they were looking to make a major splash in the digital photography world as they unveiled their new Cyber-shot DSC-R1 digital camera. This product, available in mid-November for around $1,000, is what the company is calling the first integrated lens digital still camera to market to combine a 10.3 megapixel image sensor with live preview while shooting. The DSC-R1, said Sony, features an ultra-wide Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 5x optical zoom lens and a free angle, two-inch LCD. A technology known as Sony Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor allows the camera’s APS-class CMOS image sensor to provide the live preview mode."



This looks like a really feature rich camera, which also includes a one-second shot-to-shot time, shutter release time of 7.5 milliseconds, three different modes of color reproduction, a user selectable image optimization system, digital dual media capability and support for JPEG and RAW digital image formats. I just wish that they had picked a lower price point. By going with around the $1000 mark, I feel that more produmers will go with the Nikon and Canon DSLRs instead.

[Suhit Gupta]

http://news.designtechnica.com/article8285.html

"Sony today said they were looking to make a major splash in the digital photography world as they unveiled their new Cyber-shot DSC-R1 digital camera. This product, available in mid-November for around $1,000, is what the company is calling the first integrated lens digital still camera to market to combine a 10.3 megapixel image sensor with live preview while shooting. The DSC-R1, said Sony, features an ultra-wide Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 5x optical zoom lens and a free angle, two-inch LCD. A technology known as Sony Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor allows the camera’s APS-class CMOS image sensor to provide the live preview mode."



This looks like a really feature rich camera, which also includes a one-second shot-to-shot time, shutter release time of 7.5 milliseconds, three different modes of color reproduction, a user selectable image optimization system, digital dual media capability and support for JPEG and RAW digital image formats. I just wish that they had picked a lower price point. By going with around the $1000 mark, I feel that more produmers will go with the Nikon and Canon DSLRs instead.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

The main feature is that it uses an APS sized sensor, which is what most DSLRs on the market use. So in a sense it's an alternative to them.