Panasonic’s CM1 weds a 1-inch camera sensor (as found in high-end point-and-shoots like the Sony RX100 and Canon’s just-announced G7X) with a smartphone running Android 4.4.
It has a fixed f/2.8 Leica lens, a mechanical shutter and a control ring, reports The Verge’s Vlad Savov, and at 21mm thick, is clearly intended as a camera-with-a-phone rather than a phone-with-a-camera. It’ll be 900 Euro, with no plans yet to release in the U.S.
Also announced by Panasonic was the LX100, a small camera with an even larger Micro Four Thirds sensor. It’s fixed-lens, though, and conspicuously bigger and heavier other high-end point-and-shoots (and even Panasonic’s GM1, a highly-rated MFT compact with interchangeable lenses), so it perhaps compares more to pro compacts such as the RX1 and Fuji’s X series. It has a sub-$1000 price tag, though, and 4K video.
