Like I told you days ago there will be many multiple and separate announcements from Sony. The next one will be very soon and Sony will unveil quite a strange camera. The new KW1.
It’s a compact camera with tiny 1/2.3 inch Exmor RS sensor and a 23mm f/2.0 lens. Quite unusual for a small sensor camera like that to have a prime lens. Makes me wonder if the real special thing of that camera may be a sort of curved sensor…but this is just speculation from my side. Here are the likely real specs of the camera:
– Sensor 1 / 2.3-inch Exmor RS. The number of pixels 19.2 million effective pixels
– Lens Sony G lens. Conversion 21mm F2 (4: 3). Conversion 23mm F2 (16: 9)
– Optical image stabilization
– ND filter built-in
– Monitor 3 inches 1.23 million dots
– The shutter speed -1/8000 seconds 2 seconds
– Camera application corresponding
– MicroSD / SDHC / SDXC
– Wi-Fi, NFC
– The size is 57.7mm x 125mm x 20.1mm
– 120 g Weight (body only). (Including media and battery) 136 g
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Well, this camera can only make sense if its an Action Cam or something, otherwise I don’t know what to make of this. 2/3 sensor and a prime lens is kinda weird. This camera would only make sense if it has a sensor bigger than 1 inch type, preferably APS-C.
the casio selfie camera is a big thing, im dubious on the stacked sensor claim, there really bad at high iso, and the tiny sensor size means more noise for same iso (including pixel density) and my merrills suck up crazy detail that selfiers might not want…
I´m confused……..
can’t wait to skip it!
Lol. Sony recycling spare smartphone cameras in ‘high quality’ bodies now? 😀
And wtf is that 2 sec min SS?
23mm fixed lens? Probably an action cam of some sort.
Makes me wonder what makes this camera superior to the Xperia Z1?
i have no idea.
It will be muuuuch cheaper and it will have a better sensor + optics !!on the display side!! It is 2 cm thick, so no pancake optics needed.
Sounds like a selfie cam to me
Yes, that could be very well possible.
The 23mm field of view, f/2.0 dept of view, ND filter and app side ‘skin treatment’ I can’t think of anything else this camera is targeting at, needless to mention the dimension and the weight of it.
Make it in pink and sell it to the ladies. Why not?
Tiny cute selfie cam? Kawaii = cute in Japanese. (KW1 is for KaWaii?)
I’ll put money on this one.
Yeah, yeah, more E-Mount crap and a weird compact.
Wheel out the A99-II already!
Do you really think that will make it ship any quicker?
maybe not ship quicker but it will give me a better idea if I’m going to be selling all my Amount stuff or just my Amount bodies…
Sure. Every 1000 comments and 10000 thumbs up Sony assigns an additional engineer to make it faster.
This is the rumor about the selfie cam coming from Sony China: will be announced 8-22 I guess.
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-teaser-for-a-new-lady-friendly-cybershot-camera/
Lol I totally forgot about that post;) guess the metallic part of the crystalish ‘cap’ is where the lens and sensor fit in? A perfume bottle inspired design aye
Well I couldn’t make anything of it but maybe it is indeed a perfume container with retractable camera + LCD or something 😉
Not with a 3″ LCD it won’t.
Ok then, maybe the label on the perfume bottle is a flexible OLED…
On the edge of that picture you linked, there’s a fading on/off sign with the power button;)
Ah, now I see, it’s just the shape that reflects a perfume bottle. Probably packed with perfume in the box too.
Yeah, cause that’s all we need. More emphasis on people taking selfies.
“Look at me world, aren’t I purdy?”
I’ve never understood the selfie craze. Seems blatantly narcissistic to me.
Selfie takers and twitter junkies all seem to be insecure idiots that think their lives mean more than what they really do. I would feel sorry for them except they have become such a nuisance I now just hate them.
I was recently in a restaurant with my wife, waiting in line (for a long time) to be seated, and saw a young man and woman taking numerous photos of their food (and posing with the food!) with their iPhones, for probably 10 minutes. And then called a waiter back to take the food to be re-heated! I noticed several other people doing the same thing – taking photos of the food. I saw one person flag down a waiter to ask if they had some more parsley he could add for the sake of the photo.
So, I walked over and quietly chewed them out – I was still in line because of stupidity like this. The restaurant owner actually pulled me aside and thanked me with a gift certificate. He said selfies and food shots are becoming a major efficiency headache for his staff and he’s considering banning photography inside his building. It would make more financial sense to turn some customers away, than slow everyone down.
People are so entitled these days. It’s really sad.
Ok, rant over.
I agree. They often look silly. WTF do they think? That they can take nice photos of themselves without us photographers?
Yeah. They’re weirdos. Why don’t they hang around on camera forums like us normal folk?
selfie cam targeted for chinese and it will sell damn good
Here is a rumoured picture for that perfume bottle camera.
http://image20.it168.com/201408_0x0/1941/15a31212ccc0759c.jpg
Ridiculous.
you taking the pi$$?
Because if you are not…then Sony must have the “fad” department inside the imaging department. That prestigious department would be filled of people that watch youtube, twitter, vine and instagram all day looking for the current fads. If that is the case, then Sony failed to bring us the PK1, for people planking…or the waterproof “CB1” for the cold bucket people.
No buttons needed, not even shutter… smile detection 😀
According to photorumors who broke the story this camera will be Sony’s first camera featurng a CMOS stacked sensor!!!
http://photorumors.com/2014/08/17/sony-to-announce-a-new-dsc-kw1-compact-camera-with-exmor-rs-sensor/
More information and examples of what the sensor can do below
http://photorumors.com/2012/08/20/sony-introduces-a-new-exmor-rs-sensor/
Now they may have got it wrong and it is just a curved sensor, but we will find out in a few days time
Indeed, in ‘Exmor RS” the S is for Stacked. Until then Exmor RS sensors were smaller than 1/2.3″ and only used in smartphones.
Could be something like the Casio TR type which sell for an insane high price and sell faster then a smart phone. The main function is to make you look like a Korean celebrity.
Please no. Not a selfie-cam. Shoot me now.
Or is it a self-ego-cam – “look at me – I’m really great”. Here’s more pictures of me on facebook etc. etc. Next my autobiography – I’m even greater. Me, me, me & I might think of someone else. As long as they are not in my selfie.
true selfie cam should have its LCD on the lens side, right next to it. There’s no point in pointing the lens outwards and seeing the world around you 🙂
Very strange for me. An 1 / 2.3-inch Exmor RS sensor combined with a 21mm lens would compare to an 123mm lens on full format. There must be a mistake in the specs.
Maybe it is a 3.6mm lens, comparing to 21mm full format. My mistake!
I have no idea, but yeah. It could be a selfie cam, and also marketed as P&S. Canon and Nikon didn’t see this coming despite Casio selling a few yet profitable. This is the RX100 for girls, especially Asian girls.
Looks like they’re making a try at a consumer equivalent of the RX1.
if it has a nice control layout and is reasonably compact – maybe.
I believe this is a selfie camera to compete with the Casio TR series. the Sony China website has posted a date on the announcement for Aug 22nd i beleive….Just wondering how it would look
KW1 is suspiciously similar to Kawaii!
Ah yes, it sells like hotcakes at many times the original price due to the sheer number of well-off morons littering the Chinese market, at least competition could rein in the insane price.
I do hope it has the kiss mode. You kiss it and it triggers the shutter.
Angry shutter mode: someone gets angry, foto is taken. For emergencies.
Laughing my ass off!! ROFL!!! Made my day, thankyou.
Stop this insane madness now Sony! Stop treating your customers like idiots! WE DEMAND AN EXPLANATION AND AN APOLOGY!!!
And Sony says “LOL” and keeps on keeping on.
Sound like they have put a unit from one of their top smartphones into a camera. Phones don’t sell so they had some extra inventory?
The unit from Experia Z2 – means there will be no stabilization.
Based on the specs, this looks like a close match to the Casio EX-TR10/15/35 series of selfie-cams.
* All have 1/2.3″ BSI CMOS sensors (Sony’s 19.2M resolution is higher than Casio’s 12.1M).
* All have 3.0″ displays with 640×480 resolution (Sony claims 33% higher dot count because they use RGBW instead of RGB, but the effective resolution is the same).
* All have 21mm fixed lens. (Sony is slightly brighter at f/2 vs. f/2.8 for Casio)
* Dimension are similar, although Casio is ~25% thinner
Sony= 125mm x 57.7mm x 20.1mm,
Casio = 128.9(W)×61.6(H)×14.9(D)mm
* All use microSD for storage.
* All except the TR10 have WiFi
Sony advantages:
+ Optical Stabilization
+ 58% more pixels
+ Slightly lighter (136g vs 170g with media and battery)
+ NFC
Slap a Zeiss label on it and Sony can sell it for $1,000. A Hasselbad one will fetch you $6,000!
I already have 1/2.3 exmor rs sensor in my phone…
That is weird…an ultrawide could mean that it’s useful for landscape, but the DR at this sensor size is total crap, you’d have to piece together a 5-shot-burst using HDR…unless it’s really cheap and is catering to people who can’t afford a decent smartphone?
You’ll get two devices per package. How else could you take a selfie of your selfie cam taking selfies…. err… whatever.
Does it come with a built in selfie stick? Cos getting hit in the face by an iphone on a stick never gets old…
No GPS, will not even look any further… hope others enjoy it… 🙂
This is how it looks like btw – http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/20/6047713/sony-seems-to-be-making-a-selfie-camera-shaped-like-a-perfume-bottle