The E-mount QX camera is now shipping fo the first time worldwide through Digitalrev (Click here) and on plenty of [shoplink 29231 ebay]eBay Hong Kong dealers (Click here)[/shoplink].
Interesting tidbit: Sony said 50% of the QX camera owners actually don’t use it attached on their mobile devices. They use it separately (for selfies and so on).
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> Sony said 50% of the QX camera owners actually don’t use it attached on their mobile devices.
And other 50% don’t use it at all.
It was typical sony brainless marketing to render QX’s attached to their devices. This just expresses how bad designed their photography devices are. Digital and wireless is all about getting rid of limitations and sony instead keeps thinking it will always be the same. Damn, this thing can only be useful if used in this way, not attached.
Just take a look at similar device made by Olympus and MIT, how they show it in their advertisement. It is a whole league up. I am afraid Sony’s slight domination in mirrorless market will not last long with such an approach. Especially considering how they have managed to spoil the whole idea of mirrorless with their latest huge lenses. The very next player at FF mirrorless market will crush them at optics field and camera usability.
Intentions… no one cares about. Canon didn’t intend the 5D2 to be the video success it turned out to be. There were heaps more nay sayers about the concept of video in a dslr back then too.
The qx1 can be used for a lot of interesting things. Limitations are only in the user’s ideas.
“The very next player at FF mirrorless market will crush them at optics field and camera usability.”
What do you suggest? Sony stopping things, packing up and going home? Be serious. .. no one cares about the next player. It all depends on how people do things now. If you take all the big makers, they’ve been on top of the game at some point. What matters in the end? None of that. Also who will come up with a FF mirrorless next? Not MFT… not Canon or Nikon because they’re shoving dslrs down everyone’s throats and that leaves us with Pentax and Fuji. Pentax doesn’t even have a FF dslr as yet. And what did Fuji recently say about their FF plans? Yeah… so, be real.
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You fool in almost every camera there is the beating hart of Sony. Sony is the one who really inovates. The rest just tries to imitate.
Toshiba 24Mp on Nikon APS-C tops Sony made APS-C 24Mp sensor, most of APS-C sensor cameras are made by Canon and Toshiba (for Nikon).
Currently 16Mp μ43 sensor for both Olympus (EM-1) and Panasonic is made by Panasonic, not Sony.
Most FF cameras use Canon sensor (crappy though). The rest is Sony, but the situation was about the same in APS-C market before that Nikon designed 24Mp.
I only see sony domination in shrinking compact camera market and (not expanding for a moment) camera units for smartphones one. The curve sensor tech will allow them to dominate for some time, but it is still unclear how long will the status quo be the same considring increasing sony losses, partly because of brainless sony marketing team: the camera marketing doesn’t seem the only area where their management shows lack of flexibility and inablity to catch userbase minds.
They do, but their marketing downright sucks.
They make brilliant devices and then fail to present them in a way that underlines their strengths.
I thought it was limited to SLT cameras, but LOL makes a convincing point about QX.
Who would be the very next FF mirrorless player? Nikon and Canon seem intent on ignoring the market. Panasonic? Olympus?
In a dream world I’d like to see Olympus design a FF mirror less system- an EM1 type FF if you will. In the real world, I’d take a Nikon if they took a stab at it. Who knows?
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Is there a review of this contraption from Kai?
Are there any reviews of the retail QX1 at all yet?
HA!