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The famous magazine “Time” selected the Sony RX100 as one of the fifty best inventions of the year! They write: “Digital cameras have been getting smaller and more capable every year, but that trend took a huge leap forward in 2012 with the Sony RX100, which bridges the gap between point-and-shoots and pro-quality digital SLRs. Sony’s innovative design and 1-in. (2.5 cm) sensor allow the camera to take flawless photos even though it’s 20% slimmer than your average digital SLR—small enough to fit in your pocket.”
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english is not my native language but, the word ‘invention’ feels kind of misused here. is it?
IMO yes
technological innovations?
It depends on how strict you are about what exactly is an invention and what is not. Very rarely is an invention a truly ‘new’ thing. Mostly an invention is an innovative way to use existing technology or a significant improvement on exisiting technology.
The RX100 fits somewhat in the latter category if you ask me, but the RX1 more.
you are correct.
Deniz, Right on the money!
Surely it’s not just 20% thinner than a DSLR.
I guess they meant : It is %20 the size of a DSLR.
RX100 is a great camera and very bold, but not an invention for sure.
Sony must be doing good PR work recently 🙂
“20% slimmer than your average digital SLR” ??? i’d like to see that average SLR 😉 even without lenses your average SLR is is likely to be 200-300% the thickness of the RX100..
Time don’t know what a “1 inch sensor” is. And me too.
But I know it is not 1 inch. Dpreview.com says the size is:
– 1″ (13.2 x 8.8 mm)
And this is not Sony’s alone foult.
Nikon and other people in the business also use this confusing “term”.
Would be better if sensor size always was in mm^2
Like 116mm^2 for the RX100 sensor.
Really, I don’t care about this. But a magazine like Time
should check the facts if they really wrote “2.5 cm”.
They probably mean 20% as slim.
And super 35mm/academy 35 is not 35mm as we know it from still photography, it is closer to APS-C in size but no one in cinema calls it APS-C.
Same goes for 1″, it comes from a dimension related to the space available in film days for motion pictures. 6×6 medium format photographs are also not exactly 6x6cm (although the name implies that) but shorter at 5.6×5.6cm respectively. The film roll, however, is 6cm wide and the 6×6 name of the frame refers to the 6cm of the film’s width, not the actual recorded area.
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/filmformats.html
1″ used to be the frame format of TV cameras and recording equipment in broadcasting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_inch_type_A_videotape
35mm film isn’t a 35mm frame. In fact there is not one sensor format that I can think of that is the dimension that it is ‘quoted’ to be. 1″, 2/3″, 1/1.7″ etc. That is a format size and they come from old lagacy formats from film and video systems. Time are completely wrong here as they don’t seem to understand that it is a format, not a sensor size – this is clearly evident by the fact they do a simplified metric conversion. It isn’t 1″ therefore it is 2.54cm as they suggest. It is a 1″ FORMAT sensor.
magazine “Time” is definitely on it’s way out if it thinks this is an invention. They must be desperate to find something new. Next year I’ll bet the go Pro is their big innovative invention.