When you pick up a Lenovo X1 Carbon notebook, you should be keenly aware that the hardware is all business. Literally. It’s a bit confusing to see the company launch a new digital camera with very similar branding. Lenovo has announced (via NotebookCheck) a new product called the Lenovo X1 Digital Camera.
How it relates to the company’s notebook lineup isn’t clear. Perhaps someone in Marketing was just phoning it in when the camera’s name was being discussed. The 12MP Sony sensor, all-white rounded design, and sub-R1,000 price tag (in China) suggest that it’s not really intended for boardroom usage, though.
X1 carbon copy?
The compact digital camera features a 12MP f/2.2 Sony CMOS sensor that Lenovo says features pixel binning and a native resolution of 64MP. 18x digital zoom and an LED flash round out the basic features, but there’s 4K video recording to look forward to, as well as microSD support.
The 950mAh (possibly removable) battery is rated for up to 90 minutes of photography (60 minutes of video recording, assuming there’s enough storage in your microSD card). The X1 digital camera includes a tripod mount at its base, an LED display, and autofocus. Not bad for a camera that’ll fit in the palm of your hand.
The only tricky bit is availability. Lenovo’s camera will retail in the company’s native China for ¥389, which works out to roughly R920. Whether it’ll launch anywhere else is doubtful, but there are suggestions that it’ll appear in other regions via outlets like AliExpress. That means there’s still a chance that some well-meaning relative will present the X1 digital camera as a gift instead of the far more impressive Carbon-branded business notebook.
Of course, it’s actually confusing
