Sony will reportedly be a high-end compact camera release with a 1″sensor. The same sized sensor in the Nikon 1 milc series. The camera would be a 3.6 x zoom lens and the designation of the RX100.
On the geruchtensite Digital Camera Info is a list of alleged specifications and a potential image of the RX100, taken from different angles. According to the site, get the RX100, which is most likely part of Sony’s Cyber-shot-compactcameralijn, a 1″image sensor with 20,2 megapixels.
Furthermore, would the new high-end compact camera has a 3.6 x zoom lens with a zoom range equivalent to 30-108mm in small, and would be the aperture range of f/1,8-f/4,9 amounts. 3″lcd with 4:3 aspect ratio would have a resolution of 1229K sub-pixel and the camera reportedly has the ability to shoot in raw shooting and full-hd progressive video recording with up to 50/60fps, depending on the region in which the RX100 is released.
If the RX100 with this specifaties actually be released, would that mean that Sony has for the first time direct in the high-end segment for compact cameras. Until recently, it was the top model of the Cyber-shot HX20V, a travelzoomcamera with a compact camera usual 1/2,3″sensor, which on Tweakers.net a review published.
The new model would, the Canon Powershot G1 X as a direct competitor to take. That last one is equipped with a 1.5″sensor, slightly larger than a m4/3 image sensor, with 14.3 megapixels, and has a 4x zoom lens with an equivalent range of 28-112mm, with a diafragmaverloop of f/2,8-f/5,8.
Sony saves this segment with a 1/1,7″sensor. That sensor is found in high-end compact cameras such as the Lumix LX5 from Panasonic, the ZX-1 Olympus, the EX1 Samsung and the Powershot S100 Canon. The sensor size is the same as what Nikon are Nikon 1 milc-series used, but that sensor is from aptina is offering and has half of the resolution of the RX100. Sony Benelux could not yet respond to the rumor.
