The Sony NEX DSLR

It was expected, but has it started? The end of the DSLR? Well, I offer for you The Registers hands on report of the camera.

The big bug bear for me is that the lenses are still large. Indeed, the comment I put forward for moderation is... "I mean, that 50-200, was it 4 to 5.6, was it 2.8 throughout the range? What? It is easy to make a small lens at poor performance but if that was a 4 to 5.6 and they then manufacture a 2.8 that is eight times the size of the body ... it's no DSLR killer, that's for sure."

But it is warning shot across the bows not to invest serious money in more lenses. The anti-shake system, taking and combining six 14 mega pixel images in just a couple of seconds ... man, that is some serious computing power on board. They are now at the final hurdle; lens technology. Once they've cracked that, the game will change; but not until then I think.

To that last question on lens technologies, Scotty might have an insight, "We canna' change the laws of physics, Cap'n."