Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Preview

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Preview

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/sonydscr1/

This is a most interesting camera! It uses the same sensor as in many
DSLR cameras (21.5 x 14.4 mm) and so offers much better noise performance,
but has the live preview we expect from a ZLR and the lower acoutsic noise
and more compact size you can get without all the moving parts (mirror)
present in a DSLR. 24 - 120mm (equivalent) zoom.

Is this the start of a new line of cameras? Is this the camera for you?

David

David J Taylor wrote:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Preview

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/sonydscr1/

This is a most interesting camera!

Indeed. It is finally The Camera for taking peformance shots of
classical guitar solo concerts, among other things. (Try to do this
with an SLR in the middle of "Requierdo el Alhambra", and the mirror
slap noise will be enough to get you banned from classical guitar
concerts worldwide for life...)

And the DOF geeks will have an entirely new toy to play with, one where
you can frame the images without having the eye at the eyepiece. (They
might consider getting a 67mm ND filter, though. Minimal ISO 160 and
maximal shutter speed 1/2000 means that you won't reach f2.8 without it
in bright light.)

It uses the same sensor as in many
DSLR cameras (21.5 x 14.4 mm) and so offers much better noise performance,
but has the live preview we expect from a ZLR and the lower acoutsic noise
and more compact size you can get without all the moving parts (mirror)
present in a DSLR. 24 - 120mm (equivalent) zoom.

Is this the start of a new line of cameras?

I definitely hope so. But one never knows. I mean, I've been waiting
for half a year for Fuji to put their F10 sensor in a decent camera.
What's the idea of having a great sensor if you only put it in a camera
that sucks big time?But no sign of it. Instead, they make a new 5MP
suoperzoom with a tiny wee sensor, and claim the same ISO sensitivity
as the F10 in the specs. We'll see when it comes out, but I'm not too
hopeful.

Is this the camera for you?

Not as my sole camera. It would complement my Panny FZ20 nicely
(thanks, btw, for recommending it), but then I have to consider if I
really need a complement camera which will cost something like twice as
much as the camera I have.

And I would like IS/AS on it, even if it just goes to 120mm. Having
image stabilisation is highly addicitive, and when Canon apparently
feels that consumers would want an image-stabilised dSLR lens with
field of view equivalent to a FF 27-136 mm, why shouldn't Sony have it
on a 24-120? I do hope Sony isn't into Fuji's general mantra of "We
have higher sensitivity, so we don't need IS/AS". That's plain silly.
Of course both is better.

Jan B=F6hme