When we think of Android as an operating system, the first thing that comes to mind is mobile phones, but there’s a lot of life outside of the smartphone ecosystem with the green robot operating system. So we find projectors, televisions, tablets and even cameras.
The older ones surely remember Samsung’s experiment with Galaxy Camera (then came a second version), and since then it has rained and we have seen other proposals of the most varied. A catalog that now grows with the Zeiss ZX1 camera presence, a model that is very close to reaching the market.
Zeiss and Android lens binomial
The Zeiss ZX1 camera is not exactly new, as it is a model already announced in September 2018. And it is now, almost two years later, when the well-known lens manufacturer seems to you already have your landing on the market ready.
Zeiss is a firm that stands out for being specialized in high quality optics and in fact, we can find them in reflex cameras, binoculars and mobiles like Nokia, brand that has opted for these lenses from the already distant series “N”. Taking into account that Zeiss is a brand that we can define as premium, the benefits of the ZX1 and its price must be consistent.
The ZX1 It is a compact mirrorless camera equipped with Android as an operating system but adapted by Zeiss in what amounts to a fork. We can handle all the options by means of a 4.34-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels and integrates all the usual functions of a phone (minus the ability to make calls).
In this sense, thanks to the connectivity represented by NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a USB Type-C port, we can easily share the photos we take. Images that a Zeiss Distagon 35mm lens with focal aperture 2.0 is responsible for collecting that format for a total of eight elements offers a resolution of 37 megapixels.
The ZX1 integrates a 0.7-inch viewfinder in the form of a small OLED panel to capture the action that the lens picks up. In addition, by integrating Android as a base, we can treat the photographs captured with all the editing apps that we already know. In fact, the ZX1 comes with the Adobe Lightroom app already preloaded in a memory that offers a total of 512 GB of storage in the form of SSD.
The version of Android running the ZX1 is up in the air And we do not know if already in September 2020 the company will bet on Android 11 or will prefer to adopt an earlier version of the operating system.
And we end up talking about the price and that is that whoever wants to get this camera must pay a price close to $ 6,000, which for now is the one that, according to The Verge, are offering some specialized shops. For its part, the Zeiss page offers a form to inform us of availability.
Via | The Verge
More information | Zeiss
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Zeiss’ ZX1 camera with Android could be worth $ 6,000 and would be very close to going on sale
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