This new "vlogging" camera looks like it may have some real potential for underwater use. 1.4" sensor - 4k 30p downsampled from 5.7k (image stabilization), 16-50mm full frame equivalent lens, big battery. I'm excited for a new compact camera to potentially replace my wife's aging RX100 VII camera.

 

https://petapixel.com/2025/02/19/the-compact-powershot-v1-is-canons-answer-to-the-sony-zv-1-mark-ii/

 

Note: Not initially planned for US market (but that's why there's Japan)

 

Edited February 22Feb 22 by insomniac

It does seem like it would be a great compact option with effectively a wide m43 sensor.  The $64,000 question of course is will anyone make a housing for it??

Looks good. Maybe this will herald a new line of larger sensor compacts.

I suppose any potential housing for it will need a dome port?

Yeah, that's likely, Nauticam has a small dome port adapter for the RX100 VII housing so I would hope they would be able to build something similar if they choose to make a housing for this camera. They could also make a flat port that just requires you to zoom to 24mm first, and then that could be compatible with some of their water contact optics.

On 2/22/2025 at 7:31 PM, insomniac said:

Yeah, that's likely, Nauticam has a small dome port adapter for the RX100 VII housing so I would hope they would be able to build something similar if they choose to make a housing for this camera. They could also make a flat port that just requires you to zoom to 24mm first, and then that could be compatible with some of their water contact optics.

Nauticam just announced the housing…

But do you see it as a real alternative to the last compact camera models? The biggest problem for me would be 16-50mm lens. Might be nice for wide angle videos but 50mm is very limiting for macro, isn’t it?

Would be interested what you think 👍

I saw it over here in Japan - one of the really interesting features is that it has 4K 60 fps, but with 1.4x crop.
This would be really useful for underwater imaging on a compact.

On 6/18/2025 at 7:30 PM, MrPhilipps said:

Nauticam just announced the housing…

But do you see it as a real alternative to the last compact camera models? The biggest problem for me would be 16-50mm lens. Might be nice for wide angle videos but 50mm is very limiting for macro, isn’t it?

Would be interested what you think 👍

I think with flat port and diopter it would be great for macro.

I am very excited about this Nauticam housing with this camera - combining (removable) dome port with the 16-50 (supposedly) almost constant length barrel it should provide image quality comparable to (in real world) any full frame camera with 25Mpix sensors. Plus it has good ergonomics plus the trigger for flash... It checks all buttons for ultimate pocket UW imaging device.