Compact, point-and-shoot cameras are dying, simply because people would rather use smartphone and tablets to take pictures of their dinner and share them on Instagram. Unfortunately, that's a segment of the market that Panasonic abandoned (at least in Europe) in 2013. That left the company without a convincing rival to offerings like the Lumia 1020 and Samsung's various phone/camera hybrids. That's why Panasonic has just launched the DMC-CM1, a "connected camera" (i.e. a smartphone with a proper lens) that packs a one-inch MOS censor capable of taking 20-megapixel stills and record 4K video.
Perched atop said sensor is a f/2.8 Leica DC Elmarit lens, which is fixed, but is equivalent to a 28mm zoom, with an aperture that'll run all the way to f/11. On the other side of the hardware, you'll be staring into a 4.7-inch full-HD touchscreen that'll enable you to tweak the aperture, ISO and shutter speed of your images. Sandwiched between the frame is a 2.3Ghz quad-core Snapdragon 801 with 2GB RAM running Android 4.4. The 16GB of internal storage can also, thankfully, be improved with microSD cards up to 128GB in capacity. Battery-wise, there's a 2,600mAh unit lurking inside the hardware, although at first blush, we'd be concerned that it wouldn't be enough juice to last you long. Unfortunately, the device is only launching in France and Germany in Christmas of this year, but we imagine several enthusiast shooters to get back in contact with their long-lost relatives on this side of the pond to ask for one of these as a present.
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