Michal Marek The day before Sony officially presents its new lens compatible with the iPhone, almost all the necessary details related to this product have reached the Internet. The approximate date of the start of sales, the price of the product and even the advertisement for it were leaked.
The specifications of the Cyber-shot QX100 and QX10 models were already published on Tuesday morning on the server Sony Alpha Rumors. The cheaper QX10 lens will be on sale for around $250 and the more expensive QX100 for double that, i.e. roughly $500. Both products will hit the market later this month.
Both lenses can work completely separately from the smartphone and can therefore be controlled remotely with a connected iOS or Android phone. However, external lenses can also be firmly attached to the phone thanks to handy accessories and thus create one integral piece.
An app is required to operate this photo add-on Sony PlayMemories Mobile, which is already available for both major operating systems. Thanks to this application, the phone's display can be used as the camera's viewfinder and at the same time as its controller. The application will allow you to start and stop video recording, use zoom, switch between different modes, focus and so on.
Both the Cyber-shot QX100 and QX10 use Wi-Fi to connect to the respective smartphone. But the lenses also have their own slot for a microSD card with a capacity of up to 64 GB. The more expensive model has a 1-inch Exmor CMOS sensor capable of capturing 20,9-megapixel images and a Carl Zeiss lens. The 3,6x optical zoom is also a big advantage. The cheaper QX10 will provide the photographer with a 1/2,3-inch Exmor CMOS sensor and a Sony G 9 lens that will take pictures with a resolution of 18,9 megapixels. In the case of this lens, the optical zoom is up to ten times. Both lenses will be offered in black and white to match both iPhones.
The high-end QX100 model will offer unique functions such as manual focus or various add-on models for white balance. Both models also include integrated stereo microphones and mono speakers.
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Patrick Huang, director of Sony's Cyber-shot division, commented on the product as follows:
With the new QX100 and QX10 lenses, we will enable the rapidly growing community of mobile photographers to take even better and higher quality images while maintaining the convenience of phone photography. We believe that these new products represent more than just an evolution in the digital camera market. They also revolutionize the way cameras and smartphones can work effectively side by side.
Good move by Sony. This could be the new standard.
by the way, the amber standard... if you didn't mean the standard, i.e. the flag of the president :)
Yes of course standard. The gentleman probably makes mistakes and has a necessary need to teach someone off topic, right? Maybe you should come to the discussion about the Czech language idiot. That's what amber is for you if you can't give a decent warning. Try another lesson in good manners.
This clip was filmed in Prague.
They play on our feelings. :-)
very nice, if only the phones could last a while on the battery.
Hmmm, the agency tried hard, you can see that. Personally, I wish the guys at SONY would make it work. But.
1. It's a big device, it won't fit comfortably in your jeans pocket. Maybe a piece of iron with glass will definitely get lost in a woman's handbag. So that Barbie doesn't scratch it in her purse, she'll definitely buy a decent pink suit or a leather case for the quarter-pound porter for eight hundred.
2. It must have its own batteries, so another charger for the home. So it won't hang on a hanger, rather in the charger.
3. It's not easy to tell where it's up and where it's down, so I have to line up each photo.
4. In addition, in my opinion, the advertisement is quite lying, because 20 megapixel images will be transmitted wirelessly for much longer than half a second. During that time, the proximity sensor is activated just enough to start communication. Or they have technology that no one has yet commercially used even in cameras costing tens of thousands. But maybe I'm really wrong and they've got it wrong...
5. Dear, dear dear. For the same money, I have a GoPro with which they can do other things.
6. Clumsy, I can't imagine manipulation. If you have an SLR lens at home, try aiming it at your face, the first thing that occurred to me was that I rotated it to hit the horizontal plane.
7. Take pictures with both hands? Like focus on the object once and focus on the second on the display and look for the button? Come on guys, don't be silly… what do you want to unbutton girls blouses with?
8. Pros with SLRs know plenty of better ways to spend $500, and amateurs will think twice before shelling out ten grand for something that their compact can do maybe even better and certainly more comfortably.
9. I prefer not to even ask if the video can do it and how much it really weighs. But I'm definitely not going to take it on vacation, all you need is a mobile phone and it sends it straight to FB.
If I saw it in real life, they would probably mislead me, but this way I have a pretty intense feeling that the revolution will not actually take place. But definitely points to everyone involved for trying. If you fall off the horse, you are supposed to get back into the saddle immediately, so I will wait to see if they really fall. And if so, what will they fall from next :-)
I also wondered if it has a connector for an external flash and battery pack? How do you want to take pictures of drunk celebrities at parties when you run out of flashlights at eleven? :-)
I don't mean to be mean, I just find the concept full of weaknesses. Of course it will sell, but only at the price of an intensive media massage. They could have spent the advertising money on developing something smarter...
For example, someone who solves the battery/power problem for portable devices will do really well. And apparently it's a problem because nothing is still showing up.
I wonder if it can be waterproof in the future (or now)... it's an expensive thing, and a nice piece of crap, but also underwater photography would be great :) it would be enough up to 5 meters
I really like it. If it could do more advanced work with the aperture for playing with DOF and it would have nice glass (small aberration) and a low-sparkling chip in low light, then for 10 thousand CZK it's a nice piece.