A new camera from Sony

It seems that Sony drops a new camera every time I turn around these days. This one has a couple of interesting features that make stand out a bit. For one thing, it's a shoulder mount cam, and the second puzzler is that it's projected to sell for about $1900. It's probably safe to say that this camera won't feel as robust as some of the good old DSR series units. I don't see how they could pull that off for in price range. Some will no doubt remember the dubious shoulder mount Panasonic cams
that sold for about as much.

It sports a 6.1 megapixel 1/2 inch CMOS sensor. Actually, Sony calls it a "1/2.9 inch sensor", which I've never quite figured out what the deal with that is. We saw this on the little PDX-10, which had a "1/4.9 inch CCD sensor". What a great little camera that was.

Sony claims that this is targeted at event videographers, and educational institutions. Perhaps this isn't an an issue for the latter, but I've been quite disappointed with the low light performance of several popular HDV camcorders. In fact, my old PD-150 blows most of them away on this. Sure it's only SD, but if the color is almost gone, and the grain is looking like 40 grit sandpaper, which would you rather watch? I'd love to see some footage from this cam in the same conditions that some of you are probably all too familiar with.

Via Engadget