Pre-PMA
2003, 15:00 GMT: Sony has today announced its first foray into the
compact prosumer market since the excellent DSC-S85. The DSC-V1 is designed
to battle against Canon's hugely popular PowerShot G3, Nikon's Coolpix
4500 and Olympus's C-5050 Zoom. The DSC-V1 has a five megapixel sensor
and a four times 'Carl Zeiss' zoom lens. It has all the major manual controls
you would expect, as well as various shared enhancements including MPEG
VX (VGA, 16 fps), USB 2.0, color saturation / tone adjustment, Smart Zoom
and MS Pro support. All this plus a flash hot-shoe, metallic case and
it measures just 99 x 65 x 57 mm (3.9 x 2.6 x 2.2 in) - about the same
size (from the front) as Canon's PowerShot S330 (Digital IXUS 330). UPDATE:
Preview online.
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Pre-PMA
2003, 15:00 GMT: Sony has today announced its first foray into the
compact prosumer market since the excellent DSC-S85. The DSC-V1 is designed
to battle against Canon's hugely popular PowerShot G3, Nikon's Coolpix
4500 and Olympus's C-5050 Zoom. The DSC-V1 has a five megapixel sensor
and a four times 'Carl Zeiss' zoom lens. It has all the major manual controls
you would expect, as well as various shared enhancements including MPEG
VX (VGA, 16 fps), USB 2.0, color saturation / tone adjustment, Smart Zoom
and MS Pro support. All this plus a flash hot-shoe, metallic case and
it measures just 99 x 65 x 57 mm (3.9 x 2.6 x 2.2 in) - about the same
size (from the front) as Canon's PowerShot S330 (Digital IXUS 330). UPDATE:
Preview online.