Sony has announced the Cyper-shot DSC-RX100 compact camera, which takes the premier position among the company’s selection of point-and-shoot cameras. The primary reason it is superior to all other Sony compacts is that it has a 20.2-megapixel sensor, in fact, the world’s first 1.0-inch type Exmore^® CMOS sensor. The small DSC-RX100 has a sensor as large as those found on some mirrorless-camera systems. Plus, this new sensor has a surface area almost four times larger than the 1/2.3-type in most standard compact cameras.

The Sony Cyper-shot DSC-RX100 compact camera also features a 3.6x optical zoom lens with a fast and wide maximum aperture of f/1.8 and a circular aperture with seven blades, which also contributes to much higher quality images comparable to those from some DSLRs.

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