The Photo Times: HANDS ON: Sony QX100 and QX10 lens cameras

The preference of smartphones has all yet killed a need for a compress camera. However, aside from a handful of eminent decent efforts, few can compare a opening of dedicated camera tech. Sony consider they have a solution: rather than squeezing a hybrid phone/camera device into your pocket, they’re anticipating you’ll be tempted by their new attachable DSC-QX10 and QX100 lenses, any housing a BIONZ picture processor and compact-comparable sensor.

It’s a totally new judgment for cameras. Communicating with a smartphone by Wi-Fi or NFC, any lens can be clipped onto a smartphone with a ascent joint and tranquil around an app, or carried around and used altogether independently, interjection to built in storage and a earthy shiver button. You need afterwards usually cocktail them out when you’re about to take a snap, but compromising a svelte support of a mobile in your trouser pocket. With a QX100 measuring only 62.5 x 62.5 x 55.5 mm and a QX10 62.4 x 61.8 x 33.3 mm (and weighing 179g and 105g respectively), you’ll frequency notice them when sat in your carrier or coupler pocket.

The Sony PlayMemories Mobile app is used to control any lens, with versions accessible for Android, iOS and Kindle devices, adding inscription functionality into a brew alongside smartphones, and hopefully troublesome those misled line-up owners from regulating their large-screened tech as their primary camera devices. The earthy controls onboard any lens (which also embody a wizz toggle) concede any section to be used but a smartphone or inscription too, yet we of march remove a ability to preview your snaps on a shade in a process.

The dual models have a few important spec differences. The QX10 has an 18.9-megapixel 1/2.3? (7.76mm) Exmor R CMOS sensor and 10x visual zoom, while a high-end QX100 has a 20.9-megapixel 1-inch (13.2Ã—8.8mm) Exmor R CMOS and 3.6x visual zoom. As good as onboard storage, any section has a possess battery power.

For many then, a visual wizz functionality will be a biggest pull here, given a intolerable outcome digital wizz has on smartphone picture quality. But it’ll come during a cost – Sony’s brave judgment sees a QX10 labelled during Â£179 and a QX100 labelled during Â£399. That’s a ruin of a lot of money, and would-be buyers might feel a small shortchanged, given a sense they are profitable tip dollar for radically half a camera. But it’s accurately this out-of-the-box meditative that creates Sony’s lenses so engaging in a initial place. We’ll try to get some some-more hands-on time with a lenses soon, and broach a final outcome then.