Panasonic puts a Leica lens on new CM1 smartphone

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It has a 20-megapixel resolution and is paired with an f/2.8 Leica lens
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They never multiply crop factor with aperture too. So its a F7.6 lens with equivalent 27mm(?) fixed focal length.

They should have put a zoom in there, even 4x would have been perfect. No manual focus either. They're fighting with physics here, bigger sensors means less zoom and bulkier camera.

Can't do portraits with 27mm. Makes people look round and fat.
 
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Forget the Leica lens, a 1" sensor? That's like the holy grail of advanced pos cameras, sony rx and panasonic fz1000 are providing them, pic quality will be beyond groovy.
 
yeah but all of them have zooms. If you're willing to forego that then its definitely a step up from the status quo.

Given a choice between this or the k zoom i'd still go with the latter for versatility ie framing options. More general purpose. Weight wise both are identical so it isn't hard to get used to.

They do not mention if there is OIS in this device or not, probably not because OIS is used to make a mediocre lens less mediocre :D

The lens is 10mm then 1/10 is the absolute slowest you can manage hand held and that will require skill. More likely 1/20. The bigger sensor might compensate with a faster shutter for low light some. I've started to question the value of OIS for stills, its more useful in video. But video makes up < 10% of camera use isn't it.

Also they don't say anything about the flash, is it LED or zenon.

Need more info on the software they are providing and what 'full manual' actually means.

The niche these hybrid devices inhabit is promising, things can only get better in the future.
 
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