Small-Sensor

New Yashica Fixed-Lens Compact Cameras

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It’s nice to see compact cameras being made again.  Smart phones obliterated this market, but there’s still some things that smart phones cannot do as well as a dedicated camera.  This market will never recover to its previous glory but hopefully a nice niche will develop here.

Here’s what we know about these cameras:

  • Called the Yashica City line
  • Yashica City 100 has a fixed-lens with 3X zoom
  • Yashica City 200 has a fixed-lens with 10X zoom
  • Both have the same 1/3.06-inch 13-megapixel Sony sensor
  • 4:3 photo aspect ratio
  • Offers 4K video
  • Autofocusing
  • Price starting at around $249 USD (not confirmed)

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Panasonic Lumix FZ80D Digital Ultrazoom Camera

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There is not much of a market or use case for small sensor cameras anymore (like this 1/2.3″ sensor camera), but ultrazooms is one of the places that they make sense. It has a 20-1200mm zoom range which gives you both a wide angle and an incredible telephoto. Image quality won’t compare to larger sensor cameras but if it’s good enough for your purposes then great. If you just want to photo document everything and want a single camera to compliment your phone without breaking the bank then this camera is worth considering. Nikon is the other company making some pretty interesting small sensor zoom cameras (albeit with somewhat larger bodies than we would like).

We are happy to see cameras coming out in this segment because they are fun and may be a better fit for certain demographic of camera user.

Key specifications:

  • 18.1MP 1/2.3″ CMOS sensor
  • 60x Optical zoom lens with optical image stabilization and 20-1200mm
  • Aperture of f/2.8-5.9 to f/8
  • 2.36m-Dot OLED viewfinder
  • 3.0″ 1.84m-Dot LCD screen
  • Full HD 4K30
  • ISO 80-3200
  • Up to 10 fps
  • $480
  • Shipping early August of 2024

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