Sony DEV5 Looks Like Luke Skywalker’s Binoculars

I'm watching you...

I'm watching you...

[/caption] Now you too can track down Sand People and hunt the horizon for lonely, brown-robed old Jedis with Sony’s new NEX binoculars. The binos, named DEV3 and DEV5, pack a CMOS sensor, two lenses and two electronic eyepieces instead of the usual light-folding optical prism design. Because of this all-electronic pipeline, you can also snap stills, along with 2-D and 3-D video.
Both models have constant AF to follow the subject, and both have image stabilization, while the DEV5 has GPS to geotag your photos and videos.

When it comes to zooming, things get a little confusing. Both have optical zooms of 10x, and while the DEV3 stops there, the DEV5 will add in a digital zoom to boost the max to 20x. If you want to record 3-D, then the maximum magnification drops to 5.4x.

Sony DEV3 and DEV5 Binoculars Capture Stills and HD Video [Press release / Photography Bay]