Sony sees a variety of low-light uses for the device, including road ice detection, rail tunnel surveillance, after-hours museum monitoring and nighttime wildlife monitoring. With all that resolution, you can also crop out specific parts of the image and display them as four separate VGA (640 x 480) images, as shown below. It can be controlled over WiFi by a smartphone and video and JPEG images can be sent directly to a LAN via an RJ-45 connector.

Thieves would be proud to be caught on the 35mm f/1.4 Zeiss lens shown above, which runs another $1,600 or so. The point is that you can add high-end glass from wide-angle to telephoto lenses to capture your target in pristine 4K. With a full-frame sensor and fast lens, you'd certainly get lovely images and bokeh, and Sony implied that the camera could even be used for production. With a razor-thin focus plane in low-light, however, we wonder if the cinematic qualities of the camera might clash with its intended use as a security device.