Our long time sources confirmed Sony will launch the new 1/2.3 inch curved(!) sensor soon. It will be featured inside the new Sony KW1 compact camera and also inside that strange lady-friendly selfie camera you see on top (leaked via Scweeny).
Here are the specs of the KW1.
– Sensor 1 / 2.3-inch Exmor RS. The number of pixels 19.2 million effective pixels
– Comes with two conversion lenses: they will be 1-3.5x and 3-10x zoom
– 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
The next Sony announcement appears to be scheduled for September 3! Stay tuned on SAR!
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This seems more practical than the qx series
Does it have a phone built in? It looks like one and if it does not offer that function, it will be a big let down.
Doesn’t seem to have GSM-module built in. It loos like the successor to the Sony Bloggie Live Camera (MHS-TS55) from 2012
I think only the top clear part is the camera, and it is attached somehow to the phone.
That was my first thought, if they could cram a phone in they would probably make a killing on the consumer market. Seems that’s not the case though…
Pfff…..
Sony please move your ass and show us new E mount Fe lenses!!!!
And i repeat… lenseS. I am getting old waiting
perfect phone for my gf!! F yea!! (seriously)
oh god….. its trying to compete with the casio i guess?
Cute design, sure can sell a lot.
It’s not a phone.
women will love it
preconception, I don’t love it 🙂
Yes, but saying *some* women will love it just doesn’t spark quite the inflammatory chord that @moviemaker was going for here. 😛
Let’s just say a few of them 😉
is this a perfume ?
Cos that’s not going to cause any problems when you’re drunk in the back of a taxi
Well lets hope they iron out all the teething issues before they go rx2
well it looks like it will sell very well. For the looks only.
if that came with a curved oled screen it would be such a homerun despite the perfume package
“The next Sony announcement appears to be scheduled for September 3! Stay tuned on SAR!”
— Does this mean that the KW1 will be officially announced then, or something else?
I thought that we established a case for this selfie cam to be the KW1 (since someone came up with the clever KaWaii = cute, explanation. Maybe we just established suspicion…
Well, this is relatively sexist. I feel left out in the selfie department. I don’t do them, but what if I did? do only women do selfies? Maybe they’ll bring a for-men selfie camera….in the shape of a gun, or a grenade, or a swiss knife in collaboration with victorinox or wenger.
a functional zippo shaped selfie cam for man will work ! use the lighter part for your cigar/shots, while the handle being the oil can and cam body in one !
Give this man a medal!
Lots of men do selfies, especially those who are into fitness and bodybuilding. You know the type, they sit all day lifting weights in front of a mirror. They are just as common on Instagram as the young ladies posing in their underwear.
Yeh, but it’s presumably easier to have a pout shutter than a guns shutter…
i think the bottle camera actually IS the KW1.
Put android phone and 4000 mah battery in it…
The LCD should be switchable to a full mirror mode for easy makeup
I cannot fancy which becomes the thing a bestseller.
Selfies one can make with every Smartphone and upload it promptly on Facebook, Instagram etc.. Who one carries together with her’s big smartphone a another big think like this?
The camera is as superfluous as an Eskimo needs a fridge !
Sony really is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks! If this device manages to bring the compact camera market on its feet again, then we can look forward to a deluge of awesome ridiculousness from every manufacturer out there! Ahahahahahahahahaha! Lolololololol! LOL!!!
Keep it coming! This deserves all the trolling it will get!
No Casio did this first. Sony is a follower for this one. It’s unbelievable to us sane people but seeing sales of the Casio you gotta believe that it does stick.
I cannot fancy which becomes the thing a bestseller.
Selfies one can make with every Smartphone and upload it promptly on Facebook, Instagram etc..
Who one carries together with her’s big smartphone an another big think like this?
This camera is equally superfluous as an Eskimo needs a fridge!
with each year the smartphone screen is getting bigger and bigger and ppl seem to love that. Therefore I guess you just need a handbag 😀
a handbag… its not big enough , a forklift will be better for transport it. Believe it or not, Look here the I-Phone 11s ;-/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XPZR41U4O4
The average (i)phone is absolute crap for selfie, since its front facing cam is far beyond the quality of the backfacing one. and yes this come from someone who shot selfies with his kids and realized they look awful in our family album (sh*t quality)
I mean a bad I Phone Camera is not a reason to buy a additional camera only for selfies. It gives smartphones with a good cameras,too. I think one which want good selfie photos, buy a smartphone with good camera or has a good ,normal’ camera. But when SAR soon publish ,,Woman’s storm the amazon for the KW1” Sony knows how to pick ’em, and I was wrong 😉
I know Sony isn’t the biggest player in the phone market, but surely they could have released a handset with the 20mp camera on the front?
Very interested how it performs. Of course this is just a first step on a highly innovative road. Well done Sony!
It’s not exactly a flop, Asian ladies are going crazy on these ‘selfie cams’, made specifically for…um…selfies, business opportunity there.
But to think that Sony is going to cash in on this department, makes one giggle.
Interesting technology, I’m definitely looking forward to seeing how it performs! If the compact is a sort of test and there is a strong advantage to using a curved sensor, maybe we’ll see them a lot in smartphones and also in very high end compacts with big sensors!
Is it possible that this is actually a phone with a rotatable camera on top
Alpha = gadgets, according to Sony…
not for guys visiting this site
Yes. Most come here for “Sony Alpha” stuff and not this kind of gadgets,
Casio is selling a crappy selfie cam for 1300$ like hot cake! Apparently Sony wants a peace of that cake.
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-EXILIM-EX-TR35-International-Warranty/dp/B00KBX63JS/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db1K4qeS5NM
So, where is the “innovation”?
$1,300! Unbelievable.
I just can’t believe this. That thing does have a massive market.
Sony has the more glamorous looks for the intended market (looking at this) so it might just well very well.
The profit margin must be huge on this!
Think about it…average sensor (on the casio), average lens and screen, put some wifi and write the filter software for this and BANG! $1,300 thank you very much!
Casio’s own description of their masterpiece:
http://www.casio-intl.com/asia-mea/en/dc/ex_tr35/
Casio has made several models in that series. It started 4 or 5 years ago with the EX-TR100, or TRYX as it was also called. The later ones have only been officially released in Asia. Anyway, Casio was way ahead of the times with that one.
The Tiffany Green version has 4/5 stars on Amazon and sells for $1,549
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-Exilim-EX-TR15-Digital-Tiffany/dp/B00JAJLZCY/ref=pd_sim_sbs_p_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1E0D9XCXWT4C7TBQZXY4
And people say the RX100m3 is overpriced…
or the RX100m2
or the RX100
Crap, I thought the well-off morons who buy those things only amass in China.
Innovation is great and it’s logical that a new tipe of sensor will hit the market in a gadget or in a compact camera. I guess nobody wants a curved sensor to be launched in a full-frame or aps-c camera because it will have untested issues. In 2 or 3 years, when the tech matures the bigger cameras will sport that kind of sensor.
http://photobyandrei.wordpress.com/
I knew it. KW1 = Kawaii!
Good thinking!
wait…
curved sensor with fast wide prime + 2 conversion lenses
so the chart we see weeks ago was not fake???
damn… some of the specs in that chart were unreal
from what i see… not bad, not bad at all
cant wait for the big brother (rx2)
Longest possible exposure 2 seconds? Am i understanding this right?
It ain’t that bad, esp. considering fast lens. My first digital camera had only 1/2 sec slowest shutter speed.
Ok – this makes sense as it is made for selfie shots. Surely not so good for other kinds of photographers, especially landscape and low-light. We’ll see how well the first curved sensor performs.
Selfies are not listed on my A99 specs! oh my god… A mount is dead.
I know, we a mount users wait forever, and still no A99II Selfie Cam…Sony marketing sucks!
What an ugly phone, I hope at least it will have a better JPG engine the Z2 which is horrible.
Sadly, it’s not even a phone.
My mistake then, but it’s still ugly :)-
Did you check out the Casio? I think this one’s at least better than the Casio.
No, I personally don’t care about Casio or selfi gadgets.
Surely they worked on that, but not with maximum detail in mind. Detail is the devil in the world of Selfies. Most likely it is *all about* the skin smoothing filters and look of the photo’s OOC (that’s R&D time too you know). I don’t think many would be shooting Raw selfies with this. 😉 See the DigitalRev video below.
This is the kind of innovation that goes beyond one-dimensional pursuit of image quality in a typical camera. Convenience, fun factor, hip factor, etc. It might look stupid to us but this could actually produce quite a lot of sales.
Let’s see where curved sensor technology goes from here now that a major electronics company has taken up this technology. If I understand correctly, a curved sensor requires a completely different lens design than what is currently available, apparently a much simpler design. My guess if all goes well with this first wave of gadgets, curved sensors may start showing up in Sony’s high-end fixed lens cameras in the not too distant future.
Mother of god………………..
At least it’s designed to look like it’s worth more than the Casio. Change the plastic into sapphire and the back panel into titanium and it may actually be worth ￥8000 lol
I just noticed that according to the admin the image above does not show the KW1 but in fact an unnamed something else? I’ve noticed many others who have not.
And the image does not seem to show a model ready for production. If you look carefully you’d notice that the bezels at the sides are huge…
that’s a camera that can make calls instead of a phone with a good camera. I hope it comes with android.
BTW, Android was designed for cameras in the first place and only after it championed smartphones (-:
at least it is in a smartphone-is the sugestion in our days on the level of a chicken
in front of burgerking`s burial station?
Sony works on a simple thing…
2017 nobody buys any camera at all-it was in this time a uncool and rubish
oldfashioned pice of nonsense- and the last 999 filmers/ photographs got
their cameras in the pro store = $$$$$
ther was no canaon, no nikon, no bmc, no nothing…
and everybody out, who did not response all 20 seconds ( 24 hours 7 days till end of
short live) on his DEVICE..was baned to quantanomo 2.0- means he was part of
modern oil+gas-human-recycling production..maybe something else..
but..maybe it goes in the right way….. its yours to go it….
What a weird thing to say!
I didn’t understand a single thing you said. Might be worth breaking down that wall of text and sentences ending with “…….” into something more coherent.
So this camera isn’t for ladies only. It’ll also appeal to guys who enjoy a CURVY gir…erm… senso… erm.. girl… erm….. curvy!
😉
Nice specs….hmm….this could be an Android device.
One thing missing here is a mechanical device that will allow it to stand on its own for composition. I have seen selfies that are done by allowing the camera to shoot from a distance.
Oh the self absorbed generation. It starts.
I would hit it. 19? MP
Boy oh boy! This thing will take GREAT selfies!
Now you can redo your avatar and it will show your whole face instead of just half and that stupid camera.
Hey, the screen and main body of that ‘selfie-camera’ looks a lot like the Nokia N9.
Hmmm. 🙂 Me gusta.
See the “8.22”, Sony China may provide more detail on 22 Aug.
http://www.sonystyle.com.cn/products/cyber-shot/warmup/index.htm?ssid=dsc_portal_banner_0722
Can someone explain to me the selfie phenomenon and the psychology behind it? People have been doing self portraits before. Why and how did it become a ‘thing’ or a brand?
I’m right there with you.
This is incredibly stupid.
Human psychology is the same as it ever was. There have always been
people with exhibitionist urges, attention seekers, and insecure people
who seek confirmation by others. And there have always been people who like to look at other people, especially good-looking people of the opposite sex.
It became a thing because it is much easier nowadays; Van Gogh and those guys had to paint their self portraits. Later, with film cameras, it wasn’t as convenient as with digital cameras. The smartphones have made it even easier to take and share images, so that in combination with the rise of social media is the explanation.
My comment wasn’t accepted the first time, so here I go again:
Human psychology is the same as it ever was. There have always been people who seek attention, or are exhibitionists or narcissists, or are insecure and seek others’ confirmation. There have also always been people who enjoy looking at other people.
The reason why it has become a phenomenon is because it’s much easier to take and share pictures, than it ever was before. Van Gogh had to paint his self-portraits, and film cameras weren’t as convenient as digital cameras. The smartphone is even more convenient, and in combination with the internet and the rise of social media, that is the explanation of the phenomenon.
Human psychology + Digicams/Smartphones + Social media = Selfies
It should have built-in mini-tripod and voice shutter. Shame that it doesn’t have any.