I’d love to have one of these Sony’s sent to me to review. I still own a Sony Cybershot DSC-f717 and use it often. The Carl Zeiss lens is super sharp.

Sony’s latest top of the line Cybershot camera, the DSC-R1 is encased in black, and is the first to use Sony’s new 10.3-megapixel CMOS sesnsor. Its also the first “APS-C imager” digital camera to offer live preview. The R1 features a Carl Zeiss T* 5x wide angle zoom that is matched to the imager and covers a 35mm equivalent focal length of 24mm to 120mm and has both a manual zoom and focus ring on the lens barrel. The R1 has both a high resolution color viewfinder and a top-mounted if possibly awkward 2.0″ color LCD that tilts and swivels to nearly any angle.

designtechnica have printed a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Review and tell us-

“The DSC-R1 took great photos—as a $999 10-megapixel camera should. I highly recommend it for anyone who doesn’t want to spend a small fortune on lenses or doesn’t have any to begin with. The camera isn’t perfect but none are—it is heavy and a wider focal length would be a nice bonus. It’s also not as fast as a D-SLR with slower frames-per-second rate and response time. Still it is an excellent camera–and one of the best that arrived in 2005.”

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