Monday, March 4, 2019

Yongnuo Smart Camera YN450, an Android based Mirrorless Camera

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 Yongnuo conducted a naming contest for their new mirror-less  YN450, and the person who won came up with the name “Smart Camera”, and the winner now has a Yongnuo Smart Camera YN450.

Yongnuo YN450 smart camera utilizes a Panasonic 16MP M4/3 sensor attached to a Qualcomm 8-core processor. The Android portion of YN450 uses 3GB of RAM and has 32GB of onboard storage in addition to the Qualcomm processor. The external card storage is limited to just 32GB for some unknown reason.  The smart camera runs on the Android 7.1 operating system. The lens mount is a Canon EF mount and the M4/3 sensor could be well covered by and Canon lens, be it original Canon lens or a third party. Yongnuo also makes a few EF mount lenses.


The back of the camera has a 5-inch 1080p multi-touch display and most of the camera operation is done via the touch screen, including the focus. Focus can also be done by half-pressing the shutter button.

For the sound recording there an in-built stereo microphone, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. There is also a GPS. All this is powered by a 4000 mAh battery. The camera could be mounted to a tripod via a 1/4 20″ mount. There is a SIM card slot to be connected to a 4G / 3G data network.

 Yongnuo HK

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