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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. A simple choice for you, OSTG/Slashdot by AeroNate · · Score: 0, Troll

    You may choose between advertising for Sony and counting on my bajillion-per-day lurker page views to make money yourselves. Another "story" like this and I'm history.

  2. SLR by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 0, Troll
    I was just thinking about this. Is it me, or is an SLR mechanism in a digital camera totally and completely stupid? The point of the SLR was to be able to look through the lens and see exactly what the lens was seeing. With a digital viewfinder, who needs all that extra mechanical crap? The only conclusion I can come to is that the camera makers are adding the SLR to appeal to "traditional" photographers.

    Are there cameras with the extra good sensors along with interchangeable lenses, but without the SLR that I actually think is a negative?

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  3. Re:Who cares? by mikefrommcmurray · · Score: 1, Troll
    If people buy this camera, it will just encourage Sony. If consumers punish then for the other Sony hardware with crappy DRM built in -- from MiniDisc to SACD -- diminishing profits for the entire company, parhaps that will force the suits to act. Not I'm not even addressing the Software DRM here.

    There are 1,001 different digital cameras out there, including dozens of that blow the doors off this model. This is not a camera for professionals. How many non-pros need 10 megapixel resolution? If it's for a website, 5 MP is already overkill.

    According to DPreview, This camera offers both Memory Stick/Memory Stick Pro and Compact Flash Type I/II. Isn't Memory Stick chock full of DRM goodies? While CF is also available, isn't a DRM storage method bad? Help me out here, people!

  4. Re:No thanks. by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Troll

    This camera could give me free beer (as in FREE BEER! WOO!) and I still wouldn't buy it

    If by "still wouldn't buy it," you mean "would buy one for sure," then I'm with you 100%.

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