Sony RX10 V launches Thursday, teaser reveals surprising upgrades
Rumors had already suggested last week that the Sony RX10 IV would soon get a successor. Now Sony has officially confirmed the upcoming launch of the RX10 V in the teaser video embedded below. The compact camera will be unveiled on Thursday, July 9.
While rumors had suggested a rather modest update with a new processor and possibly a USB-C port, the teaser video shows that the camera will indeed offer more comprehensive new features. According to the inscription on the lens, the Sony RX10 V comes with a 9.1–235 mm f/2.4–f/4 lens, instead of the 8.8–220 mm lens with the same aperture found on its predecessor. This means that Sony is using a new, or at least significantly redesigned lens.
If the sensor is designed in the 1-inch format as before, the lens will offer a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 25–640 mm, achieving a nearly 26x optical zoom. The camera’s silhouette makes it clear that the design will also undergo significant changes: the presumed mode dial is now located on the opposite side of the viewfinder, the dial for activating continuous shooting mode on the front appears to have been removed, and the top has sharper edges.
The fact that Sony is redesigning the body could be an indication that more extensive technical updates are also planned. However, no details are known about this yet, aside from the fact that the Sony NP-FZ100 battery ($88 on Amazon) – which is about twice as large – is to be used. The older Sony RX10 IV from 2017 was equipped with a 20-megapixel 1-inch sensor, a 3-inch touchscreen with 1.44 million pixels, and a 0.39-inch OLED viewfinder with 2.36 million pixels; Videos could be recorded at a maximum resolution of 4K at 30 fps.
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