Xatakafoto.com (spanish) has taken a screenshot from the new Sony mirrorless teaser. Analyzing the screen you learn following about the camera:
Integrated Flash in auto
AF-S mode
Filters?: “FH Movie”
Face recognition
Object tracking (focusing)
Some kind of image stabilization (or lens IS indicator)
Easy modes (Olympus Pen LiveGuide-like): Background Defocus
Shooting tips (like Olympus E-PL1
Easy menus (icons, feature guided)
[Thanks Tony]
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3456 is not the horizontal sensor resolution – left of the 3456 is a memory stick item, 3456 is the number of pictures remaining on the memory stick!!!
Thanks Huggy! I only did copy and paste and didn’t notice that error…my mistake!
And it seems touchscreen, bearing in mind the virtual buttons on the left for “back” and “tips”…
My bad for stating that number as the resolution ! (some cameras specify the selected picture quality as one of the resolution pixel-numbers, width or height)
As for the possibility of the screen being a touchscreen, the video shows the movement of that “Defocus” feature without showing any fingers or “shadow” (in the case that would be a virtual demonstration)
And the Back and Tips could be indicating that you have to phisically press some buttons, just like those pictured, and placed outside the screen.
FH may mean Full HD movie format (not filters): that should be seen anyway…
This new mount…do anyone think Sigma or Tamron will release lenses to it in the future?, and why is the believed price tag so high, you would think throwing out the mirrorbox and shrink the whole thing would make it cheaper instead!…
Not a touch screen — the curved “sweep” area on the right mirrors the large button-dial-thing on the physical camera. And the on-screen buttons in the upper right and lower right corners of the screen mirror physical buttons also.
But still, a very nice menu layout!!!
And that flash icon proves that there is indeed a swing-up flash on this camera, even if Sony has not shown it yet.
What’s “background defocus”? Is it just changing the aperture or is it a software-driven special effect, ie detecting blur and exaggerating it or something? Would be interesting to see how that would work, vs genuine shallow DOF.
Yup, it’s just their way of saying “shallow depth of field”.
Rob – it’s just about opening/closing aperture.
They named it this way so that compact owners would know what’s this all about – I know few people who have the PASM compact cameras yet have no idea that they can get defocused background by just switching the mode and clicking the button. So Sony solved the problem – brilliant in it’s simplicity.
It would be far more brilliant if it was a software driven special effect that blended in. Dummy cartoon graphic on an expensive camera, whats the point, compact users are perfectly happy with just that, compact ixus cameras. This cam is not compact at all if you have a lens on it, so what is the point, I would much rather buy a superior compact like LX3 or the new Samsung F1.8 than this one. A3xx & A5xx ftw.
Ken, then don’t get it. Sheesh. So negative.
Will, I am not at all sure this isn’t a touch screen; it certainly looks like one to me.
It does, but only because the image is divorced from the camera back. If you check a pic of the camera back itself, you’ll see how it is just like a non-touch-screen cell phone.
But maybe the next iteration of the camera will have touch. It is certainly within Sony’s ability.