A full-frame sensor inside a compact camera sounds like lunacy, but Sony's managed it (at least, in principle) with its new Cyber-shot RX1. While only at the engineering sample stage, we're already deeply in love with its retro body and the potential that lurks inside that 24.3-megapixel sensor. The question, of course, is how did they manage to squeeze that whopping hardware into such a small body? Take a gander through the gallery from our brothers at Engadget Chinese to see how it achieved such a feat.

Gallery: Visualized: Sony Cyber-shot RX1 in pieces

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Visualized: Sony's Cyber-shot RX1 gets smashed to pieces, in a good way originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.