Sony DSLR Teardown -- The EIectronics Inside 25

The moving Sensor is effectively for image stabilization. Sony is the only company that has that stabilization in the body of the camera. Other camera manufactures have the stabilization in the lens.

Which brings up an interesting point. The cost of a lens for a Sony is less than the cost of the equivalent lenses from any other manufacturer. Every lens for Canon, Nikon, etc, cost more to manufacture, because of the stabilization that has to be in each Lens.

But on the other hand, it makes the body heavier, and more susceptible to being damaged in a drop. Big deal you say, you don't go around dropping expensive Camera bodies, right? Well, Wedding photographers drop their camera bodies all the time. Hence the reason they always have at least two, sometimes three camera bodies at their disposal. So the reasoning for a Camera body without stabilization is that it is faster, easier and most importantly cheaper to replace a Camera body without all the bells and whistles of a Sony. Dropping a lens at a wedding can be expensive but you still have the body to use with other lenses. Drop the body and you are SOL.

But take it all this with a grain of Salt. As in every other 'this vs, that' discussion (Apple vs. PC, Ford vs. Dodge) there are heated discussions about who or what is better.

And yes, you are correct in saying that 35mm Film is the digital equivalent to Full Frame. And there again, there are different schools of thought as to which of the two most common formats is better (APS-C is the other one.) The same goes for internal/built in flash vs. external flash.

-Rene

Mostly what I expected.

I have been buying older automated 35-mm cameras and doing tear downs to see what they had inside.

Now it is just an issue of how many features they pack in and how do they route all of the sensors and controls.

DAB

Was it what you'd expected, or was it a suprise?

Now I know what is inside my DSLR.

DAB

Braver? I'm not sure, or just blisully unaware of what I was letting myself in for!

Indeed it does! I was thrown by the fack my DLSR had stabilisation as a feature of the lense!

A braver man than me!

Neil

Presumably the moving sensor allows for image stabilization in the presence of camera vibration or shake.