The QX10 is in Stock and the QX100 will ship on October 15 according to Amazon US (Click here). And the QX10 is selling quite fine if you look at Amazon’s overall ranking (here). But does the gadget actually do the job? Engadget posted the full QX review and they say it’s both a fnatastic and impractical tool:
“It’s possible that the new technique will feel natural over time, but why bother? Serious photographers need a serious camera, and the QX100, as much as we wanted to like it, is not a serious camera.”
Time will tell if the QX LensCameras are succesful or not. For now I can say that I am happy to see Sony bringing some kind of excitement ont he camera market…not only with the QX, but also with the NEX-FF.
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QX100 (the RX100MII clone) at Amazon (Click here) and on many stores on [shoplink 21395 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
QX10 (black and white) at Amazon (Click here) and on many stores on [shoplink 21394 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Sure, sales are good now. It’s new and people want new, especially when it’s a new Sony camera thingy.
But let’s see how well they’re selling six months from now.
Who needs practical, when you can have fantastic?
I hope that is not Sony’s line of thinking!
I certainly hope Sony keeps up that kind of thinking!
This is a fantastic example of risk taking and innovation. It has a small chance of success but I applaud both the risk ad willingness bring an odd product to market.
Right now the two most profitable camera companies are Canon and Nikon. Undoubtedly the most boring and least innovative brands in the camera industry right now. I believe this should ring a bell : innovation for innovation’s sake is useless. Innovation is only good as long as it remains relevant, i.e. solve problems and invent more efficient ways to perform a function. Sony’s got good ideas, but they also have plenty of bad useless ones (irrelevant innovation), but more importantly they don’t solve current existing problems by at least copying what others are doing (auto ISO implementation springs to mind). For the latter innovation isn’t required, not even technical know-how, simply phoning the engineering department and tell them “do this” will do.
I actually believe that Sony’s camera division could be more profitable if they innovated less, but better.
Admin, the Engadget article you link to here is only about the QX100. They did a review of the QX10 last week at http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/18/sony-qx10-review/
QX10 is useless because of the small sensor size and QX100 is comparable with RX100 in size and price but with less options so indeed QX100 looks impractical.
As I mentioned in a comment on another story, I just got my QX10 yesterday, and think it is indeed fantastic. I think that the price/performance advantage tilts toward the QX10 (though all the buzz is about the QX100). Some silly things said in that Engadget article, like the “serious photographers” crap – sometimes what a photographer wants is an un-serious camera (think Holga or Lomography). Let’s see what happens to the Sony PlayMemories App development – perhaps a paid PlayMemories Pro version with more features, such as HDR, manual mode, ISO, Panoramics, etc.? Most major oversight in the software for the casual user is no access to the phone flash – for now, must turn on the flashlight manually. Anyway, QX10 will do vey, very well, and deserves to.
While we’re wishing, may as well ask for play memories to add native raw support for android… I’ve still yet to find a decent android raw editor.
QX could be fantastic but sure looks ugly! From a design point of view RX is a very nice series but QX is a joke!
Tu, if the QX cameras are fun to use, can be used in ways that no other cameras can be used, doesn’t cannibalize at all on any traditional camera markets but instead opens up new usage areas, finding new customer bases who are not looking for technic (completely uniterested in any traditional monkey boring cameras from – you know who…), but are looking for something that brings joy when used. Sony has understood that the “fun factor” is very important, unlike most other camera manufacturers. The fact that many traditional advanced camera users haven’t discovered this is a completely different matter…
If the “fun factor” is high, then it doesn’t matter at all if some people don’t like the design. Enough of others will realize all the fun thing that can be done with these kind of cameras.
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I think that Engadget are missing the point ? This is not meant to be a ‘serious’ camera but is aimed at the I-Phone generation who like innovative gimmicks !
These lenses are fun-tastic (quoted from a reviewer) so need not to be practical to sell well.
Meanwhile anybody on the same budget who actually cares about practicality will just get the original RX100 for even less money.
Seriously, this camera should be compared to and priced below the original RX100 by a good margin. All those reviewers are being too friendly by saying ‘whooo cheaper than RX100MII but same IQ!!!11’.
A good deal RX100 greatness is lost in crappy compression anyways. Wasn’t there supposed to be a new jpeg engine by now?
Already in stock and shipping in switzerland! Delivery 29.9.
Source: http://Www.digitec.ch
The big use I can see for this camera is to be able to hold the lens at a distance away from the smartphone and take pictures. Great for concerts, etc. One could use poles like those mini booms used with Hero cams.
Instead of a sea of glowing LCDs distracting us in events, we now have a forest of pole-raised QXs:-)
Lol, engadget. If it would have been something like iCamera or something made by (f)@pple, they would have praised into all existent and/or non-existant heavens. They’re practically owned by @pple.
Another toy from the big toy factory, what a surprise…
I was told there should be a surge of FF NEX rumors these days, yet here we have nearly nothing about it.
read rumors on previous pages – pretty much everything that could be said in rumors was already told. We don’t need another rumors reminding us of the old rumors, there were tons of these already. I guess most of the people are already tired with that topic.
My advice for V2:
* Full manual controls. Fully documented protocols/etc. (so we can have an appstore).
* Cell phone gets 3MP JPEG images for e-mailing/posting to Facebook/etc.
* Camera gets full RAW images on an internal SD card for future editing.
* Communications support both wifi, Bluetooth, and NFC
* There are mounts for the ~10 most common cell phones (Nexus 4, Galaxy S4, etc.).
129,90 $