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Of course the ILCE-QX1 isn’t meant to be used with such huge lenses…or maybe yes? Anyway, this is how the new ILCE-QX1 looks on a big Alpha lenses. And watch the video below (in Spanish) to see how the QX1 works with the FE 70-200mm lens:
Preorders of the new QX cameras (Click on store name to open the exact product page in a new tab):
E-mount QX1 in USA at Amazon, SonyStore US, BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera.
E-mount QX1 in Europe at Sony DE, Sony UK, Sony FR, Sony ES, Sony IT, Sony NL, Sony NO, Sony BE, Sony PT, Sony SE, Sony FI.
E-mount QX1 in Asia at Digitalrev.
QX30 in USA at Amazon, SonyStore US, BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera.
QX30 in Asia at Digitalrev (Click here).
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And then the phone rang.
You just gave an idea. How about using this setup as some kind of face recognition tool? Since it is directly connected to an Android device, I think it’s possible in near future. Or you can activate the shutter just by a call.
just make sure vibrate is off!! 😉
What about this thing deserves an Alpha “a” logo? Why don’t they just put the dang thing on their phones and tablets. Put one on the Playstations while you’re at it.
Clowns.
Haha if you watched the CEO speak, today… you would have also noticed when he discussed the future of alpha cameras he didn’t show any A-mount cameras
because it still takes better pictures than any Canon APS-C camera.
the fact thats E Mount ?
The confusion continues…
…partly because nobody seems to distinguish between ‘a’ and ‘α’.
All of Sony’s interchangeable-lens cameras are α cameras. Alpha cameras.
Alpha cameras can be split into A-mount and E-mount.
People talk about a7, a77, a900, etc, etc.
None of these cameras exist.
The cameras in question are called α7, α77, α900, etc.
Check the camera itself, check the box, check the manual, check the Sony Japan website (www.sony.jp/ichigan). But still 99.9% of other websites get it wrong.
α7 is E-mount, whereas α77 is A-mount. Et cetera.
Latin letter ‘A’ (or ‘a’) is only for the mount.
Greek letter ‘α’ (Alpha, not ‘a’) is for camera names.
It’s a special phone machined from a solid block of titanium to support the weight of lens and QX camera module.
But you need really strong hands to hold it steady.
Just as with any DSLR.
only an idiot would hold a long lens just on the camera
Only an idiot would not realize the comment was tongue in cheek.
why? you can place QX with lens on your shoulder or head.
I personally do believe this might be useful for multiple angle remote shooting, such as sports or events, if it works as same as the SONY Action Camera Multi-View!! That mean SONY really need to put in more effort to make the PlayMemories Camera App much much more better than the current version!!!
Also astrophotography or macro stacking, or, basically, anything that requires a tripod comes to mind when I think of qx1 usage. I guess it would be easier to pack this camera for trekking and taking landscape shots.
with that said, Sony should make another adv to promote these ideas and thanks us!! hahahaaa…
The easy way to get a remote controlled rig, yes, but to make that work in real life, for sports or other action photo, you need DSLR kind of respons on the trigger. I don’t se a cellphone hooked up wireless to this thing giving that kind of respons.
How about burst shooting as we have 11 fps in the A6000? to get series of photos before and after the action, for example placing this at the football gate, that what I saw on TV 😉
Of course I also hoping to see a wired connection in between for fast operation, however remote still better for easy to setup 🙂
I’m with you. I see some great potential—although like the original NEX cameras Sony is marketing to consumers while the pro’s will really make the best use of this camera. This is a GoPro competitor not a consumer smart phone camera!
Imagine how this QX1 can be useful in these situations…
http://amasportsphotoagency.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ama92_world_cup_final.jpg
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/450820328-photographer-adjusts-his-remote-camera-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QUUq5Sax0HfNErRJkY9R8GGyOp%2bmi%2fdQs0iw2eauORY1zBx5Dk038ptGoDBIjUvDWg%3d%3d
http://sportsmarketing.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/spider-cam.jpg
I think, that Sony, being an electronics company rather than software company, should rather open Playmemories for everyone.
Well the phone doesn’t have to be attached. So it could have its uses.
Videographers tend to prefer side-mounting LCD. Plus one off camera for the director.
Like this: http://www.sony.net/Products/di/common/sgwt/products/cm32/img/09_E1.K1/09_E1.K1-desktop.png
for tripod use this would be still better than any DSLR
image is not correct… the sel1650 is installed
In the video there is no FE 70-200mm lens attached to the QX1 🙁
SAL300 maybe? …at 36sec is a zoom lens, imho amount
Sony is just dicking around now. Good job, Kento.
For all the people who are asking for an FE 70-200 f/2.8.
Get it now?
Still don’t get it. It looks ridiculous, but it takes pictures. Of course, this is also ridiculous because it is not functional without the grip, but ILCE has that. If I already bought ILCE, why would I need to buy another camera just for using it with the lens that i need from time to time? Also, a7 is bigger than a55 (http://camerasize.com/compare/#238,487 ) and almost the same size as d5300 or 700d. Does that mean that all the people who bought big lenses to use it on those dslr-s are idiots?
Oh, I get it now – big lenses go to the bodies with mirrors! Size of that body, obviously, doesn’t matter, because a55 is smaller than a7 and yet Sony made huge lenses for that camera. And d5300 or 700d are almost the same size as the a7 and Canon/Nikon created some badass lenses for them. Note to self: if you don’t have a mirror in your camera, don’t put a big lens on it, because you will look stupid…
Thanks, duott!
This is just pretty freakin awesome!!
awesome.
It looks nice, it only needs a bigger tablet to really shine :D.
űthe viewfinder lags as hell
The top image is a bad photoshop job. The LAEA4 is mounted? on the 16-50 and the 500mm lens with orange ring was a prototype.
Yup, I did that and later realised that I had left 16-50 in there. 😀 But then again it’s meant to be a joke so who cares? 😉
I agree, I actually thought it was real until I thought again. Actually, sony did mount the 70-200 f2.8 and 300 f2.8 lenses on it in the YouTube video.
Someone needs to try a speedbooster on this.
Greatest nonsense I have ever seen.
New things ALWAYS look like a nonsense to old people ….
Be more positive to change, don’t think “I’ve not seen this in the 80s its nonsense” but what you can use it for!
I suppose that this was meant to say that innovative products often look like nonsense at their launch and that’s true but it does not mean that everything that looks nonsense is innovative. To me at least this is more within the spirits of an electronics product company that is trying something out because it can rather than the expression of a vision of something. The sequence seems to be, in no particular order: (i) to reach for your phone/tablet, (ii) reach for the QX1, (ii) eventually reach for a lens and attach it to the QX1, (iii) pair the QX1 with the phone, (iv) each for the mount, (v) attach the mount to phone, then to QX1 and (vi) shoot. If the job to be done is to take great pictures touching your smartphone then you’re OK, there is no other alternative but if you are looking for portability or user experience or bang for the buck I think there are better options within the sony catalogue. I am sure that there will be some creative speciality use with the current lens owner pool but have difficulties seeing this as anywhere copse a mainstream product.
Sometimes you launch a product and people find a sort of uses that you never thought about. This was an interesting review of the original QX100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1RwJl9M9Jo
It doesn’t look weird, it just looks like a lens. Ever looked at a telescope? Same. And btw, the trick is to have the screen removed and separate from the lens. Ipad anyone?
It looked like a doomsday weaponry in Sci-Fi movies which is awesome~!!!
Sony is a great electronics company with lots of innovation but it’s not yet a great photo company and may never be. It’s good that other, more serious photo companies are using Sony tech 🙂
As always, this is just so freaking cool~!!! SONY is back~!!!
It is like some cool weaponry in Sci-Fi movies and this is how tech stuff should look and it did recite what cool new tech should have looked since the purged by the minimalistic & drab look Apple introduced which every tech company nowadays follows and thank god techy designs returns~
for a moment when I saw the picture I thought this was a rumor about the 400mm… To bad I haven’t heard anything else about it.
That moment when you realize, carrying a tablet around is less convenient than just having a camera.
Nooo no no. Every piece of equipment has a place. I can see this used at sporting events, photo-booths, unmanned aerial vehicles, jib or otherwise separated camera angles.
I am sold, frankly. I have dozens of uses for this.
do you know what a smartphone is?
Ok so we got rid of camera bodies, now can we get rid of lenses please?
why not get a pencil and a sketchbook and totally get rid of photography … Im sure Sony can make funky pencils … 🙂