Hats off to you Sony! You've got our teardown engineer tired, but not beat. The upper case assembly pops off and steps aside for a glimpse at the goods.

Eager to get our first look at the new Exmor R CMOS sensor, we extricate the entire sensor assembly from the camera. The rest of the body feels like an empty husk without the hulking sensor and stabilization cradle.

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