Introduced during a IFA 2013 tradeshow in Berlin alongside a new Sony Xperia Z1, a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX100 and QX10 are a new multiply of camera appendage that is designed to urge a peculiarity of images shot with smartphones. Equipped with bigger sensors and visual wizz capabilities, these accessories are radically cameras add-ons (without viewfinders) for your phone that lets we fire improved cinema than a stream stand of smartphones.
In fact, a high-end QX100 indication is indeed formed on a innards of Sony’s modernized compress camera, a Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II. This should safeguard flattering high peculiarity images, given a glorious lane record of a RX100 II and RX100. Sadly, as many as we’d like to give Sony credit for an innovative try to urge a design peculiarity of smartphone cameras, a QX100 isn’t a many user-friendly device.
Design
Even yet a QX10 has a 10x visual wizz lens compared with a 3.6x wizz on a QX100, a latter is about twice as high due to a higher-end imaging specifications. Like a QX10, a QX100 comes with a joint that lets we mountain it on any smartphone. You can also use a QX100 alone on a own.
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The device fits absolutely in a hand, and we can take cinema simply by dire a onboard shiver symbol with one hand. You can also adjust a wizz spin around a controls that are located subsequent to a shiver button.
In tangible use, we find it can be utterly ungainly to reason a phone with one palm and a QX100 in a other. Perhaps this is a matter of personal preference, and while ascent a QX100 on a smartphone might seem unmanageable for holding pictures, we am some-more prone to use a QX100 mounted to a phone. You can also fire though a smartphone, though a skip of a viewfinder for framing shots will expected outcome in badly stoical images.
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Features
Since a QX100 is formed on a imaging components of a RX100 II, it facilities a same 20-megapixel 1-inch sensor, splendid F1.8 optics, Carl Zeiss lens with 3.6x wizz and Sony’s Bionz imaging engine. Unlike a RX100 II that can constraint in RAW, a QX100 is usually able of holding cinema in JPEG.
The QX100′s battery is rated for around 200 images before wanting a recharge. To span a lens with your smartphone, all we need to do is bond it to a Wi-Fi Direct hotspot and bucket adult a PlayMemories app. Android users can spin on NFC and daub a lens for discerning pairing. Note that withdrawal your Wi-Fi connected to a lens will empty your smartphone battery.
Like a QX10, it seems that a QX100 has unequivocally singular sharpened modes. It comes with five: Superior Auto, Intelligent Auto, Program Auto, Aperture Priority Shooting and Movie Mode. There’s no flash, nor can we use a smartphone’s peep for holding pictures.
I found Intelligent Auto to be sufficient for many situations, while Superior Auto, like in a RX100 II, takes several shots to brew into one. As highlighted in a QX10 review, do not use Superior Auto to constraint relocating shots.
Program Auto lets we tweak a white change and exposure, while Aperture Priority Shooting adds orifice to a mix. There’s no ISO control, or detonate modes. So those who wish some-more primer controls will have to cruise a RX100 II instead.
Shooting with a lens can be utterly frustrating, generally if you’re in an area with a lot of Wi-Fi networks. The shade tends to incidentally freeze, and there is also a loiter between what we see on a smartphone shade (as a viewfinder for QX100) and what is function in genuine time. So while a QX100 is good for sharpened immobile subjects like food and portraits, a shade loiter will meant we are expected to skip a impulse in an movement shot. Having pronounced that, a shiver is unequivocally manageable and will snap on command.
My biggest dispute with a QX100 has to be a vapid setup process. To use it, we have to mountain it on a phone, spin it on, activate a phone’s Wi-Fi, bucket a app, wait for it to hunt and bond to a lens before we can take a initial shot. You can, of course, select not to mountain it or fire though joining to a phone (hence no viewfinder) to save a few steps, though that brings about other challenges.
Performance
Not surprisingly, a QX100 takes unequivocally identical cinema compared with a RX100 II. The usually disproportion we beheld was that a cinema taken RX100 II were somewhat brighter. Pictures were shot in a Intelligent Auto mode with shiver speed, orifice and ISO settings identical for both pictures.
Nonetheless, a QX100 takes unequivocally good cinema with pleasing abyss of field. Colors are healthy and colourful with good details. In fact, we find a design peculiarity improved than some of a compress cameras out there. So if we are looking to take unequivocally good cinema with your smartphone, this is substantially an appendage we can severely consider.
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(Credit: Aloysius Low/CNET)
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Conclusion
There’s no doubt that a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX100 is an innovative product, though during S$649, it is not for everyone. As a comparison, a Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II retails during S$999, that is only S$350 more. While a QX100 captures good images, until Sony finds a approach to make it easier to use with a smartphone, it’s tough to wholeheartedly suggest this camera appendage to phone photographers, for now.
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