Sony Announced Hybrid Digital Camera

Anna Merikin writes to tell us that Sony has begun shipping a new digital camera, the R1. With the R1 Sony has married the big digital SLRs' sensor with the live preview display of the compact cams. But to do so, it is not an SLR although it is about the same size as one. The new architecture also allows wider-angle optics to be used, but it does not have interchangeable lenses.

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[Grandma Death]

Who gives a crap how it works, the real question is what kind of rootkit does it come with?

Hmm

[Ziviyr]

They named it after a button on their game controllers, I so must have one!

I'm in!

[Construct X]

As long as I have to purchase another redundant proprietary memory format (Hello xD), that costs nearly twice as much per MB as SD and CF, then I don't want to be right.

Sony Camera

[this great guy]

Strangely enough, pictures of objects showing the word $sys$ always end up being completely black...

yes we know

[towsonu2003]

Beware: may install rootkit and ugly invisible mustache to your then-DRM'd digital pictures. May attempt formatting CF and/or HDD if rootkit is removed.

Good Store to Buy the R1 From

[lo0ol]

When these things start appearing in stores, why bother going into one to buy one when you can get it a lot cheaper online? I haven't bought from the company myself yet, but I've seen it linked to on a lot of blogs lately. Something about supplying cheap cameras, so maybe some of you want to give them a shot; you might save some money that way.

http://www.priceritephoto.com/ [priceritephoto.com]