Sony Unveils the RX10 V, Wholly Unsuited to Underwater Images

Some cameras lend themselves to dropping into an underwater housing greater than others… after which there are cameras that you could possibly by no means put in a correct underwater housing even in the event you needed to—the brand new Sony RX10 V is simply such a digicam. Still, there’s no purpose we will not spend a bit time marveling at this new-and-improved mannequin, maybe with our eye on it as an excellent all-in-one topside digicam for our travels.

What hasn’t seen a lot, if something, of an improve is the RX10 V’s sensor and lens. It’s nonetheless the identical 20-megapixel stacked Type 1 Exmor RS CMOS sensor and Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 24–600mm f/2.4–4 equal lens used within the Mark IV from 2017. Thankfully, that’s the place the similarities finish, together with the processor—now the most recent Bionz XR processor (from the a7 Mark V), which options an built-in AI processing unit. That ought to imply glorious real-time topic detection and monitoring.

Other welcome upgrades embrace: an Alpha-series-inspired physique that includes Sony’s new menu system and autofocus joystick, a brand new 3.69M-dot EVF with 0.78x magnification (up from 2.36M dots and 0.7x magnification), a higher-resolution 3-inch rear LCD touchscreen with 1.62M dots, USB-C versus Micro USB, and a contemporary NP-FZ100 battery. The new processor brings blackout-free steady taking pictures at 30fps (up from 24fps), and 4K/60p full-width recording and 4K/120p with a slight crop.

The digicam will retail for $2,300. Just don’t search for it at Backscatter…