Olympus XZ-2 Major specification surfaced over the web today, the camera features newly developed 1/1.7″ 12 Megapixel CMOS sensor, I hope with the implementation of new CMOS sensor, we will see significant amount of improvement in noise performance.
Olympus XZ-2 Major Specification
- Sensor is a back-illuminated CMOS sensor 1/1.7 type 12 million pixels
- 28-112mm F1.8-2.5 lens is equivalent
- 3-inch 920 000 dot, movable, touch panel LCD monitor
- Touch AF shutter
- 11 types of five Art Filter, Art Effect
- DUAL IS
- TruePic VI image processing engine
- SD / SDHC / SDXC media (corresponding UHS-I)
- Video – Full HD (1920×1080)
- Weight 346 grams (battery included media)
- (On-sale date) in October, expected price 65 000 yen shop sale
Canon G15 is also coming soon and Nikon already announced its Nikon P7700 pro compact, nice to see all major camera giants moving towards CMOS sensors.