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We saw it coming. Some of us even started forecasting it quite a while ago. Convergence. The marriage of still photography and video in a single device. Of courseSony's new VG10isn't the first device to marry stills and video. As of mid-2010 it's reported that some 65% of DSLRs are video capable, and (I'm guessing here) likely more than 95% of all pocket cameras and point-and-shoots can handle video as well as stills. (And let's not even talk about phones – with the iPhone 4 now handling 720P HD).
But with the just announced and soon to be released NEX VG10 Sony tackles convergence from the other direction, with an interchangeable lens, large sensor camcorder also capable of taking 14MP stills, and using the same interchangeable E series lenses as theNEX 3andNEX 5still cameras (which of course also shoot video).
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