Official ! Sony Announces the Highly Awaited RX100 M3 !

It's official! Sony finally announced the highly awaited Sony RX100 M3 and all rumors were right, it does have a 24 - 70 mm 1.8 - 2.8 Zeiss lens, a built-in "pop up" OLED viewfinder, a screen tilting at 180° to shoot your favorite selfies, and record videos in the new - and excellent - XAVC S format!

I told you before all the good things i think of the previous RX 100 and RX 100 M2 - which were awarded by the New York Times as the "best compact camera ever made" - a title the RX100 really deserves - but this one top the M1 and M2. And dimensions remain almost the same which mean that the RX 100 M3 is always a true "pocket camera". All the previous features are still there, including the fantastic 20M Pixels sensor and i can't wait to buy this RX 100 M3 and do a full review with sample images as soon as it will be available, probably around the end of June.

In the meantime the RX 100 M3 is already available on Sony online stores in the U.S and Europe, and soon in Asia and also on Amazon for $799 in the U.S or 849€ in European countries.

Edited: Sony released a "highlight" of the RX 100 M3 Specifications, and here they are :


1" 20.1 MP Exmor R® sensor for extreme low-light shots

Bright F1.8 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens (24-70mm)

Built-in SVGA OLED viewfinder w/ZEISS T* coating

Selfie-ready multi-angle 3" Xtra Fine LCD™ display

Versatile shooting w/ XAVC S1, AVCHD and MP4 formats

Built-in ND filter for wider-ranging photographic expression

HDMI clear output for uncompressed video recordings

P/A/S/M operating modes with smooth precise control ring

Simple connectivity to smartphones via Wi-Fi® w/NFC

Enhance your camera with PlayMemories™ Camera Apps

More about the RX100 M3 specs on Sony website HERE.

Sony develops a roll-Up OLED video screen

Sony Corporation announced this week that it developed a super-flexible full color OLED display which can be wrapped around a thin cylinder. The new screen is super-flexible to allow it to be repeatedly rolled up, but it's also sturdy enough to still show images. It has a 4.1-inch full colour screen with a resolution of 432x240 pixels and this was achived due to the development of integration technologies of OTFTs and OLEDs on an ultra-thin 20 μm thick flexible substrate and soft organic insulators for all the insulators in the integration circuit. By combining these technologies, Sony successfully demonstrated the world’s first OLED panel which is capable of reproducing moving images while being repeatly rolled-up – around a cylinder with a radius of 4 mm – and stretched.

Sony has not stated exactly what it will use the new displays for, but it has indicated that they may hit the mobile device market. Indeed, the size of the screen itself supports this, suggesting we may have some kind of rollable screen on smartphones in the near future. This may be used to save space or offer bigger screens on small devices by allowing users to stretch the screen out and roll it up when not in use.




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