Sony treated us to a very early Christmas Party the other day as they launch bunch of products under the campaign OneTouch. Sony’s upcoming products in the country will use NFC technology in their devices. One of them is the QX series camera that can be attached to any smartphone. It can also be used as stand alone camera.
Dale of Geeky Nights testing his iPhone 5S with the QX100. He noted a little lag in the app for iOS. The QX100 works best with Android.
The QX10 and QX100 is not only for Sony Smartphones. You can use it, or attach it to any smartphone, up to the 5-inch phablet.
The DSC-QX100 and DSC-QX10 attach in a moment with the several popular smartphone models (width 54-75mm/max. thickness 13mm). Connection to your phone is made via Wi-Fi and the latest version of Sony’s PlayMemories Mobile application. NFC technology play important role in this camera by Sony, you can use your Xperia Z1 or other Xperia smartphones as image viewers with just one-touch connectivity transforming your mobile into a power-packed camera.
The Cyber-shot DSC-QX100 features a large 1.0-type Exmor R CMOS sensor with 20.2 effective megapixels. Enjoy sumptuous, ultra-low noise images – even indoors or at dusk when many cameras and camera phones seem to struggle. It’s simple to frame shots and tweak camera settings like aperture control and exposure compensation as well as photo/video record mode on your smartphone’s big touchscreen. You now get more creative control than you’d ever get with your phone’s regular camera enabling the user to capture beautifully background defocussed shots. Everything’s easily accessible, with extra dedicated keys for fingertip control of zoom and shutter release on the camera body. The DSC-QX100 is also teamed with a wide-aperture Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 3.6x optical zoom with Optical SteadyShot giving all the picture quality you’d expect from a premium pocket camera.
The powerful BIONZ processor in the DSC-QX100 and DSC-QX10 refines your image for beautifully natural, detail-packed stills and HD video. Superior Auto helps get the best from any scene, automatically recognising dozens of different shooting conditions and adjusting camera settings to suit. As an extra refinement, the DSC-QX100 sports a dedicated control ring for camera-like adjustment of manual focus and zoom.
Here’s the hands-on video by Engadget.
The QX10 is the entry level camera which is best for taking photos for sharing to social media, while the QX100 is best for taking photography into the next level. Sony Cyber-shot QX10 will retail at P10,999 with free 8G memory card and the Cyber-shot QX100 is priced at P23,499. Credit card buyers will enjoy 12-month zero percent interest.
