Sony built a tiny mirrorless camera with a full-frame sensor inside

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 14:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Attaching high-end lenses to a tiny camera looks slightly awkward. (Sony /)At first glance, Sony’s new A7C camera would fit right in with the company’s mid-level A6000-series cameras. Instead of a smaller APS-C sensor inside, however, Sony has crammed the full-frame sensor (the same size as a frame of 35mm film) from the A7 III into a more compact, rangefinder-style body.Compared to the rest of its full-frame A7 siblings, the A7C is roughly 20-percent smaller, which makes it very close to the consumer-oriented A6600. It’s not the smallest full-frame mirrorless camera on the market—that title goes to Sigma’s curious fp—but Sony has included a 5-way image stabilization system built around the sensor, which takes up some extra space.The sensor is the same 24.2-megapixel chip you’ll find in the A7 III, paired with the BIONZ X image processor, all of which is familiar territory for full-frame Sony offerings. With that...

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