look about as ergonomic as a brick

Thanks for combining them! :)

It's pretty impressive than in 2018, Zeiss have managed to come out with a camera which has lower resolution than Sony's very similar compact (right down to the lens!) from 2015 - and it will probably only cost about 1.5-1.8x as much (the RX1R II still seems to retail for about $3200)!

Ah, you beat me to it. I should have known!

https://zx1.zeiss.com/

Zeiss just announced the ZX1, an extremely ugly fixed-lens compact with poor ergonomics which is apparently for people who want a camera released a couple of years after the Sony RX1 Mark II, but with very similar specs.

It has a 37.4 megapixel full-frame sensor with ISO sensitivity from 80-51,200 and the lens is a fixed 35mm f/2.0 Distagon with 8 elements in 5 groups. Neither the lens nor the sensor has any stabilization.

Video is on the low end of average - 4k at up to 30fps and 1080p at up to 60 fps.

Storage is an internal 512 gb SSD or via USB-C connector. The camera doesn't seem to have a card slot.

External mic support is available by USB-C.

The EVF is also pretty average - a 0.7" 1920x1080 OLED (magnification 0.74x)

It comes with Lightroom pre-installed which, I guess, means that the camera is running Android as an OS. That might be the most interesting thing