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Sony Announced Hybrid Digital Camera

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the put-everything-good-in-a-bag-and-shake-it dept.

Anna Merikin writes to tell us that Sony has begun shipping a new digital camera, the R1. With the R1 Sony has married the big digital SLRs' sensor with the live preview display of the compact cams. But to do so, it is not an SLR although it is about the same size as one. The new architecture also allows wider-angle optics to be used, but it does not have interchangeable lenses.

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  1. Re:Pictures? by this+great+guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    How the hell am I supposed to take a picture of the R1 with the R1 itself ? Hmm ?

    Oh wait I could use a mirror. Damn I am a blasted idiot.

  2. ETERNAL SONY BOYCOTT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't care if their camera runs 1000 miles on one gallon of gas! ;-)

    SONY = BOYCOTT
    SONY = BOYCOTT
    SONY = BOYCOTT

    HDTVs = boycott, Cameras = boycott, PSPs = boycott,
    Playstation 2 and 3 = boycott,
    VAIOs = boycott, CDs = boycott, DVDs = boycott
    Motion Pictures = boycott, Radios = boycott
    MP3 players = boycott, Radios = boycott.
    Sony's Sound Systems = Boycott, Sony headphones = Boycott.

    The SONY name is a kiss of DEATH,
    no way, no how, no place, not now, not never, not ever.

    Did I mention the Eternal Boycott of Sony?

    I did?

    Good.

  3. Re:Vital statistics by Xugumad · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's exactly my position on Sony products at the moment.

    A lot of people are likely to say "Well, that was Sony's music people, this is the cameras division, they're seperate", but until I see evidence that the higher-ups don't support the music division's use of DRM (or at least DRM rootkits with large holes in them that install irrespective of whether you accept the terms and conditions), I'm treating them the same.

    And "We're really upset you caught us rootkitting your computer, and our sales have dropped through the floor, so we're going to stop until we think you've forgotten" is not my idea of repentent...