Fancy a phone with a Leica lens?

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http://petapixel.com/2014/09/15/panasonic-packs-a-whopping-1-inch-sensor-and-leica-lens-in-its-lumix-cm1-smartphone/

[Guest]

I'm really happy to see these better quality android phone cameras coming out.

It's not only the camera abilities, but also the abilities for software developers to get these devices even further. The results will be something much more than a camera or a phone or a computer can do by themselves.

Here is a dpreview article of the camera

http://connect.dpreview.com/post/7107523787/panasonic-announces-lumix-dmc-cm1-smartphone-with-1-inch-sensor

And some of my thoughts about a year ago when Samsung brought it's Camera phones to the market.

http://www.sfonge.com/forum/topic/camera-android

There will be shift to the photography once the software developers get really interested of developing software to the cameras and to the image processors. We are getting closer to that moment all the time as visual media is more important. Sensor megapixels does not anymore need to mean that there are more details on a single photo, why not to make a HDR image with splitted (lower amount of pixels) at one go?

[MJP]

No!

[sunshine51]

Hmmmmmmm....After the "holiday season" in France & Germany eh?

When for the rest of the world?

Really...these type of cameras with a phone built in are challenging

the norm and they sure interest me to no end. However it's most

likely gonna be a bit pricey so the thought of leaving it for a picosecond

on the bar is well outta the game plan when owning one. Being my

cynical self one may or may not even be able to impress their mates

& friends (ladies) with it for much longer than a couple hours and then

what do you have left? A prety damn good gadget that's what!

I bet it'll be interesting to figure out how to "root" the phone....and

how long that will take to reach the various droid forums dedicated

to rooting.

BTW..."rooting" has no carnal incantations...it simply applies to giving

the phones owner access to "admin" privledges inside the phones

software. Makes many things much easier to accomplish also and

rooting your phone is not a complicated process as long as one

follows the instructions & gets the required software to facilitate the

root. Heck...I root my phones so if I can do it...anybody can.

I have seen some really nice results from a rooted Samsung

Galaxy camera phone....and not just for what the phone end

can do.

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Panasonic are a bit dodgy when it comes to rooting and stuff like that. They used to make one of the few DVD writers where you couldn't alter the region code after you'd had your 5 goes. They also make it much more difficult to make their DVD players region free than other brands.

[sunshine51]

^^^ Thanks for that sustento...never knew pana was that "picky".

However there is an infamous rooting site on the web and since

this is a droid phone...Pana may be able to do little about the

root. PM me if you want a link to the site...

[sustento]

I don't think I'll be needing to root it as I expect it will be a little too pricey for me. I'm happy with my I-mobile with its 18MP! camera

[sustento]

Matshita is another brand to watch out for as they're a subsidiary of Panasonic.

[tw25rw]

I'm not sure the demand is there for this, but in a way I think it's ahead of it's time.

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Available in Austria, France and Germany next year at 900 Euros

[sunshine51]

Matshita is another brand to watch out for as they're a subsidiary of Panasonic.

Ahhhh...actually Panasonic is a subdidiary of Matsushita and Mshita are into everything

from department stores (huge one at Ginza Corners in Tokyo) to heavy industry a.k.a.

Matsushita Heavy Industries....ship builders...big ship builders...almost as big as

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries!

Just FYI matey!

Edited September 18, 2014 by sunshine51