Having teased us with a concept of their ideas for a camcorder version of their interchangeable-lens NEX cameras, Sony has now unveiled the production version of that dream. The Sony NEX-VG10 Interchangeable Lens HD Camcorder is, the company reckons, the first consumer model to support switchable optics of this sort, sharing the same E-mount lens interface together with support for regular A-mount lenses with a suitable adapter. Thanks to the comapny’s Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor, the NEX-VG10 can shoot Full HD video at 24Mbps or 14.2-megapixel stills.
Sony say the NEX-VG10’s sensor is almost twenty times the size of what you’d find in a regular camcorder, and brings various pro-photography style abilities to the table; that includes bokeh-enabling shallow depths of field, up to seven fps continuous shooting, and Auto HDR, Handheld Twilight and Anti Motion Blur stills. Audio, meanwhile, is courtesy of a Quad Capsule Spatial Array Stereo Microphone, though of course there are external microphone inputs too.
Storage is courtesy of SDHC/SDXC or Memory Stick Pro DUO cards (expect up to four hours of Full HD footage to a 32GB card), there’s a 3-inch Xtra Fine swivelling LCD, electronic viewfinder and dual hotshoes (one powered, one not), while Sony will also throw in a copy of their Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 video editing software. The Sony NEX-VG10 will be available in September for about $2,000, with presales kicking off from July 14th.