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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. Everything you need to know by Tom+Davies · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05120603sonydscr 1review.asp

    Summary -- fantastic lens, but despite the large sensor inferior noise performance to entry level DSLRs.

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  2. Re:Why Sony? by Rdickinson · · Score: 5, Informative

    To Quote dpreview of the R1:

    "I'll start as I shall no doubt finish this little piece of editorial, the lens is worth the price of the DSC-R1 alone. That fact is not to be underestimated, it's a great lens which provides you with a very useful 24 - 120 mm zoom range (which will be sufficient for the majority of users). Doing the math it's pretty clear that you have to spend a fairly considerable sum on lenses for a D-SLR to get close to this range and the quality of the DSC-R1's lens. "

    The cameeras problem is not its lens, its in its image processing:

    "The second issue is image processing, take a RAW out of the DSC-R1 and run it through Adobe Camera RAW and you can see just what that lens / sensor combination is capable of, however you really need to be pretty dedicated to shoot RAW all the time, 20 MB per RAW file and around 9 seconds to write; I did note that some of our forums users are converting the Sony RAW files to Adobe DNG to save space. That's not to say JPEG's aren't good, they are very good, but you get a whole new appreciation for just how much crisper images could look converting in ACR."

    And the fact that your still better off buying a dSLR.

  3. Canon's slow autofocus and high shutter lag by greeneggs2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've never understood why Canon compact cameras are popular. They do tend to have decent lens quality. But: they have the slowest autofocus of any compact camera manufacturer. Enormous shutter lag. Lots of people who bought Canon digicams think they need to get a DSLR if they want 1 sec shutter lag. In truth, they just need to try a different brand.