http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/ Engadget Comments for Sony's ultra-compact concept camera gets slightly less mysterious http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
love the screen name! ]]>Mar 11th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Sony + Words like "Ultra" or "Compact" usually = LOTS ]]>Mar 11th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Lol so true]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Because @ntelope, @ngry, @ntisocial, @nimosity, @nimated, @nglican, @phrodisiac, @ppopletic, and so on, and so on, are not as funny and clever as monkeytail_sshole. Huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign read it and weep. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Is it really a depth of field? I thought that could only be accomplished by a lens attribute. If it's an artificial blurring that is pretty lame. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
It's probably just an option to click to have the camera do all the work for people who don't understand how f/stops work.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
fancy name for shallow depth of field effect lol, probably just opens up the f-stop]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Actually seems like a great idea for bringing more advanced photographic techniques into the hands of ordinary people.]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/it seems losing the focus on the object supposed to be focused, while it is defocusing the background.]]>Mar 11th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/looks like faux-bokeh
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probably.

If that bokeh effect can be done on a great distance from the subject, then it's great.

My LX3 don't have a bokeh unless you're really close to the subject. Even @ f/2.0

:(


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Why not PNG?]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Think you meant to say RAW]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
PNG is a grand parent of image formats. It's lossless and compressed. That's some reasons why. Here, read more on why it's so great.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ go ahead, edumacate your self.

I love PNG and TIF, and it was the worst day for imagery when cameras settled on JPG. What a crying shame. I still boo hoo as much as possible to lament that deplorable decision. Lossy. Yuck.]]>Mar 11th 2010 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Both TIFF and PNG are poor choices for cameras. The whole point of using JPG is to save space. You aren't going to save that much space with a non-lossy image format, so you're better off with RAW that using TIFF or PNG if image quality is important to you.]]>Mar 12th 2010 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
I'll have to read up on RAW, none of the cameras I've bought yet had that format. But yes, I care about image quality... why bother taking photographs if image quality is not important? By the way, I should explain also that I use PNG / TIF for images I create in 2D and 3D applications, so it's not just camera related... although an old Nikon I have creates TIF too.]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/sony-ultra-compact-dslr-camera-concept-menu-and-lcd-screenshots-11-03-2010/]]>Mar 11th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
http://www.wergadgets.com/]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Most likely. A small sensor compact camera wouldn't be able to produce shallow DOF like that. Unless that's a really damn small flower.]]>Mar 11th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
Go have a gander at DxO mark, and see where Sony DSLRs rank compared to Nikon and Canon. They are certainly competitive. The big deal with this camera, like the Samsung NX10, is that it has an APS-C sensor, rather than the smaller m4/3 sensor. It also looks like Sony made the mount big enough to accommodate fullframe sensors some day. Awesome.

Sony claims this is just the first of a whole line of small, mirrorless cams coming. We'll probably see more advanced versions in the future. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Mar 11th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/Firstly, it's too big to carry around as a spur-of-the-moment camera, and secondly, if you have a dedicated bag for your camera, what stops you from using a full DSLR with mechanical controls.
Frankly I don't understand the whole micro four-thirds movement, despite how cool it is.]]>Mar 11th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/sonys-ultra-compact-concept-camera-gets-slightly-less-mysteriou/
I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

The only thing better is if Canon or Nikon would make a compact camera with a big sensor.

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