The 1/1.2" format (about 14mm diagonal) is quite impressive for any pocketable camera: far bigger than Pentax Q, almost as big as Nikon One.
Actually this is a bit like a fantasy of mine from many years ago:
- the biggest sensor you can afford, for best performance at wide to normal field of view (I was thinking even biggest than 35mm format, ignorant of the high cost)
- the smallest, most numerous pixels you can manage, for telephoto reach through cropping rather than zooming, and so easy optical design and a more compact lens
- oversampling and binning/downsampling to avoid aliasing without any OLPF and improve the DR and low light performance far beyond what the "per pixel" performance numbers suggest.
That f/2.4 lens wide-open is near the "diffraction limit" of the 1.4 micron photo-sites, so there may still be some aliasing, but it should be easy enough to fix with the heavy binning/downsampling. Or by stopping down a bit.
I would actually like to see something like this in a compact camera: there is room in a pocketable body for a 4/3" or "APS" format sensor and a fast, fixed focal length moderately wide lens, about 14-18mm. Throw in a 2x or 3x add-on convertor for the occasions when you want better telephoto performance.
Could this be another case of new technology being tried first in a higher-volume lower-level market, and then working its way upwards?
P. S. Never mind MLU: can it do 4K video? How about 8K? It's got the pixels.