Song DCR-IP1K - The Pulse 2 - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., Nov, 2003

* The DCR-IP1K from Sony is the world's smallest and lightest MICROMV camcorder. And the MICROMV tape is--yes, you guessed it--the smallest camcorder tape in the world. With dimensions of 39 x 69 x 91 mm and weighing just 230 g, it makes the DCR-IP1K a considerable 26 percent lighter and 30 percent smaller than the now fatty for, in PC terms, both vertically and horizontally challenged) DCR-IP7 model, so the IP7's catwalk days are definitely over. For the gamblers amongst you, Sony helpfully informs us that the DCR-IP1K is almost exactly the same size as a regular playing card. They're calling it a "rump size" camera. The one-fifth inch CCD produces 1,070,000-pixel images, which boils down to 690,000-pixel moving images or 1 million-pixel still pictures in real life. The lens is one of those fancy Carl Zeiss efforts, with a 10x optical zoom allowing 35-mm camera f-stop equivalents of F1.8 to 2.3. There's also a Memory Stick Duo slot for recording still images (up to 1,152 x 864 dots) or brief MPEG-1 movies. Connection options include composite, S-Video and USB/i.LINK. An NP-FF51 lithium ion battery is included in the pack.

More info: www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/ Press/200309/03-0903/

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