Yutaka Iwatsuki, Senior Manager of Product Planning at Sony, has been quite chatty about where Sony hopes to take their Alpha line. While the A6300 has been nearly universally well received, fans have been left scratching their heads as to why the new E-mount camera lacks sensor stabilization. When asked about it, Iwatsuki said:

 Our challenge for the APS-C series is compact and offer a lot of technology like auto focus point or 425 UHD video, in a very compact package. Compactness is an important and currently integrate a mechanical stabilization system would make it much larger enclosure. 

We’ll obviously never know how much bigger the A6300 would have been with the feature but at least we now have an answer as to why the feature is lacking.

Discuss:

Would you have liked to have sensor stabilization at the expense of a bigger, and in turn, heavier camera body?

[Via Focus Numerique]