The Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 is a large-sensor camera smartphone announced by Panasonic on 15 September, 2014 and released in December of the same year in Germany, France and Great Britain only. It was also released in the USA later, in summer 2015.
Description
To date, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 is the smartphone with the largest sensor, surpassing the
Nokia 808 Pureview
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(2012) with 1/1.2" sensor, and the slimmest camera with 1" sensor at the same time. It is also the only smartphone that takes any external lens (37mm or any other with a step ring) like any other dedicated camera.
The combination of an f/2.8 lens and 1 inch sensor give it a hitherto unprecedented ability for (unsimulated) shallow depth of field. Forbes reserved judgement on the image quality given review samples were not available, writing "it remains to be seen whether a 1-inch sensor and Leica lens is enough to elevate the image quality of DMC-CM1 sufficiently high above the best smartphones".
It is able to record video with
2160p
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at 15
frames per second
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and 1080p at 30 frames per second.
[Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 specification sheet]
– GSM Arena It is equipped with manual camera controls and allows for a maximum
light sensitivity Photosensitivity is the amount to which an object reacts upon receiving photons, especially visible light. In medicine, the term is principally used for abnormal reactions of the skin, and two types are distinguished, photoallergy and phototoxicity ...
of ISO 25600.
References
Hands-on: Panasonic Lumix CM1 review: Is it a camera, is it a phone? It's a bit of bothPanasonic announces Lumix DMC-CM1 smartphone with 1-inch sensor
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Mobile phones introduced in 2014
Panasonic Lumix cameras
Digital cameras with CMOS image sensor
Cameras introduced in 2014