Last month a source told me that Sony will soon release a new “QX camera model featuring an impressive 30x zoom” (article here). Well, it seems like our source was correct! The Korean agency RRA just registered the new QX30 camera. There is also a new A5100 which we reported to be registered at the Indonesian agency a couple of weeks ago.
image via Digicameinfo.
Here are all direct links to QX in USA/Canada:
QX100: Amazon (Click here), SonyUS (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), SonyCA (Click here).
Soft Carrying Case for DSC-QX100 at Amazon (Click here).
Black QX10: Amazon (Click here), SonyUS (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), SonyCA (Click here).
White QX10: Amazon (Click here), SonyUS (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Soft Carrying Case for DSC-QX10 Amazon (Click here).
Xperia Z case with QX mount on Amazon (Click here).
Here are all direct links to the QX in Europe:
Black QX100 at SonyDE, Amazon.de (via DealsRunner), Amazon France (via DL), SonyUK, SonyES, SonyIT, SonyNL, SonyBE, SonyAT, SonyCH, SonySE, SonyFI, SonyNo.
Black QX10 at SonyDE, Amazon.de (via DealsRunner), Amazon France (via DL), SonyUK, SonyES, SonyIT, SonyNL, SonyBE, SonyAT, SonyCH, SonySE, SonyFI, SonyNo.
White QX10 at SonyDE, Amazon.de (via DealsRunner), Amazon France (via DL), SonyUK, SonyES, SonyIT, SonyNL, SonyBE, SonyAT, SonyCH, SonySE, SonyFI, SonyNo.
Xperia Z1 at SonyDE, SonyUK, SonyES, SonyIT, SonyNL, SonyBE, SonyAT, SonyCH, SonySE, SonyFI, SonyNo.
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I refer you back to my comment two weeks ago that the only slightly interesting thing to be announced at photokina will be a new QX camera 😉
On the other hand my a77ii will sleep better at night if they don’t an a88 at photokina!
Then Sony might as well stay home. No point being loneliest guy in a booth.
This is what everyone has been waiting for!
LOL what a good joke!
Great. That makes me want to go to Photokina. Hold on – other manufacturers….
Hold on. A-mount is dead! Long live QX!!
I’m sure there’s an adapter for e-mounts. Sony’s new plan to expand their pathetic lens line? ;^)
Does anybody actually buy these things? It seems unlikely, but I suppose Sony wouldn’t make them if there was no market. Personally, I’d rather carry a compact optimally engineered for photography rather than use one of these things. I can’t imagine it would be much bigger, and the ergonomics are surely better.
You’d be amazed by how many people don’t think things through. The idea that “you don’t need to bring another device” but can simply use your smartphone directly with a better ‘lens’ apparently sounds amazing to many, but in reality of course is a moot point, because it is another device. It’s clear if you think about it, but not if you don’t. 😉
The point is not having to bring another device or not, but how the other device relate to your main device which is the smartphone. An RX100 will give you a better result an photographic experience but if you want to share it you need to hassle with a computer or with the UI of your camera for the tethering which is not an instant experience.
For the masses the new king of electronic device is the smartphone, so any device who want to make a breakthrought need to relate to it (car, camera, drone, house, home apliances… name it there is a ton connected to your smartphone). It’s like computer in the early 90’s, it could have made a faster breakthrough in houses if it was able to relate to the king of home appliances back then: TV. Instead it was relegate to the room of the nerdy kid of the house.
And yes QX line sell beyond Sony’s expectation.
Sony have to address to all his audience, If you can’t relate to it, it’s more a question of Admin’s choice to talk about it here in SAR.
Yes. It’s basically a camera without a viewfinder and, if your smartphone is forgotten (or the battery is flat) then you can only use it “blind”.
I suppose it saves Sony the cost of putting a screen on the damn thing, but I can’t think it’s that much of an issue. I’d rather have a device that works independently for a modest cost in money and weight.
You woefully underestimate how many amateurs (read: instagrammers) are taking AND PP editing solely on their iDevices (thereby eliminating the laptop intermediary–which in many amateurs’ eyes can impede workflow and stifle creativity so dramatically that it no longer is worth the obvious superiority in finished quality) and a QX at first glance gives those same users a much better lens-sensor combo than their iphone can provide. That was my situation (and first reaction) just over a year ago when these QX cameras came out. I had actually been waiting for some company to do just what Sony did and release a product to interface with the iPhone (or in my case the iPad) as the QX’s do. But then something happened. I realized that because sony offered essentially the same functionality in the Nex-6 (which affords even more versatility to the combo while still being easily controllable by iPhone or iPad) I went with that instead of the QX.
I had never purchased a Sony camera before. Now I have an A7r, an A6000, 3 Sony lenses, and am considering purchasing an A7s… So I would say whatever their strategy was it worked with me 😉
Yea, I agree MJr. If they didnt improve the lag and startup/linking times from the previous models, then the only people who would buy these are people who didnt bother to think about those specs when they are sinking the money into them in the first place.
Finally a new lens !
But will it have super Zeiss like QX100? QX30 is closer to QX10 than to QX100 so maybe No?
full frame or medium format ?
or maybe two models – QX30u (full frame) and QX30z (medium format) ?
Inside Sony Product Team – we don’t have enough models to sell, let’s create more.
During CES Sony featured a QX model and nothing much else. During this worse presentation ever their QX marketing video featured one strapped to a dog, a Fido doggy cam. I don’t think I can stand a repeat performance at Photokina.
They introduced 3 FE bodies in less than one year and they beleive they are enough to compete with CaNikon so, no need for fast portrait prime, no need fast 35, no need for 2.8 wide prime in case we dare to do night photography, no need for small flash that goes with them, no need for intervalometer for serious landscape/architecture photographers.
All Sony needs is to introduce another toy that most consumers don’t even understand what’s the point behind it.
I have Galaxy K zoom for daily snapshots and crippled A7 for serious photography, and guess what my k zoom is in my pocket always and I don’t need to charge two devices to take a snapshot.