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Many of us still struggle to understand the utility of the QX camera line. But it looks like Sony was spot on to make those weird cameras 🙂
Sony Japan just issued an official statement sying that because of the exceptional high demand we can expect some delays in shipments. Literally they say preorders were “much higher than the expectations“.
Well done Sony! And now give us those new RX cameras with curved sensor as next 🙂
QX1-QX30 store links
E-mount QX1 in USA at Amazon (Click here), SonyStore US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), FocusCamera (Click here).
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 (Click here).
QX30 in USA at Amazon (Click here), SonyStore US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), FocusCamera (Click here).
QX30 in Asia at Digitalrev (Click here).
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Let me guess… the first production run was for six, and eight units were preordered.
What a load of marketing crap. Just like Nikon v3. What else would any marketing department ever say?
🙂
Preposterous. They can surely twist things a bit, but if you think that they can just lie irresponsibly, you are wrong. When you make a production run, you have expectations of how much profits you will get, depending on sales. Well, they managed to sell everything.
Of course marketers and companies lie irresponsibly. Did they include actual umbers, of course not.
Creating artificial scarcity is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Assumptions are even older.
What would the numbers give you exactly? You don’t know their forecasts anyway and, same as you are doing now, you will assume whatever you want about them.
Actually you should think about what you say. I went in to 3 stores in London and all have had their first delivery of pre orders sold out. The demand is bigger than most people think.
I just wanted to chime in with my experience. I bought a QX10 on whim because it was on sale. Went out playing with it and every time I use it in public, it draws a crowd. I keep trying to tell them they shouldn’t buy it and it’s not the camera they are looking for, but it just sparks something in people. Once the idea of mounting on drones comes up, it’s all over. People are firing up their phones and browsing amazon on the spot.
Some people just don’t understand how mass consumer need or think. The golden age of pro DSLR is already over. Anyone who ever want or might want a DSLR already has or had one. This is why Nikon is loosing $$. With skyrocket sale of smart phone and tablet now days, I am not surprised QX is doing extremely well.
depends on what their expectations were…
I don’t struggle to understand the utility of QX line. Rather, most people on the forum photography community do not see them as something they would buy…but as we saw on the KW1 example, they are not the intended market anyway.
I see some reasonable areas of application: Remote surveillance, lightweight image/video capturing on quadcopters – all this in better quality than up to now.
Just like someone else commented, I`m not that surprised there is demand simply because of demand of cameras like GoPro’s and this camera offers a compact alternative with a different rendering/depth of field without being a direct competitor.
Doesn’t surprise me at all. Have the qx100. Absolutely fantastic little thing. Weighs nothing, takes superb pictures, easily lasts a couple of days. And it is always with me when I need it.
no wonder A-mount is dead.
A-mount died when Minolta died. Sony and Zeiss resurrected the A-mount and together they trample down Canon and they will be #1 camera company in the future. They already are the #1 sensor company in the world and they are already milking on Nikon’s camera sales. It’s just a matter of time before Sony’s market share will be the majority.
Canon needs to swallow its pride and bow down to the new king of camera sensor for them to survive their coming bankruptcy. They must do what Nikon did and use Sony’s sensor for their camera.
Unfortunately, right when Sony had all the needed ingredients to do so, they came up with FE.
Who care about A-Mount? it would be a terrible financial mistake for Sony to invest $$ in so called “pro” market, which is already over saturated by Canon and Nikon. Good luck trying to grab customers who are already heavily invested in Canikon lens. So what they came out a another great a99mk2? There is no way they can sell as many unit as the a7s Just look the sales statistic of a77mk2! In addition, the “pro” market is not as big as the consumer market and they tend to keep their equipment (camera/lens) much longer.
Lol, so Sony is learning from market leader Nikon (“everyone wants a V3, HELP!”)
Once they sort out the connection, making it more stable… etc and maybe extend the range , there is a lot of applications for this thing. I personally would not use one at the moment but that can change. I did try one at a event I went to and I did like it, but I would need some way to trigger a flash so I cant really use it.
Can you pair the QX camera w/ a head mounted display like google glass? imagine the possibilities!
Let’s see the impossible! Make a head mounted display now Sony! go go go!
This is what I hope for.
This is what I’m waiting for since the first QX.
Edit: no need of head up display or something “like” Google glass, direct connection with google glasses (or a sony version of them) and we are sold.
I don’t see why it is so surprising, the QX has been selling well in Asia, the new QX1 offer entirely new uses for video, it may even be a GoPro competitor
I like your avatar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ#t=20
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this is fakin awesome !!!
Very apt! 🙂
LMAO
Old sh%t but funny!!!!!!! Onion news FTW.
“….those new RX cameras…..” Plural. I like that, sounds like something good is right around the corner?
The photoshopped image is actually wrong. There’s a 16-50 zoom lens in between the camera and the la-ea2 adapter (it’s not supposed to be there…). The adapter and lens image is mirrored horizontally and the colors are off.
after reading all the comments, theres mostly 2 kind of people here
the ones that prise sony for their relentless inovation and are happy for all great new things sony is delivering (even if they wont buy that shining new thing) they understand sony is making money from the camera market and actually its a global leader and should focus in all the spectrum of the market
and the ones that hope sony became canon: kill E mount and all “crap” cameras they dont need like action cams, smartphones, selfies, qx, rx, etc. and focus entirely in A mount, all resources should go to A mount and bet the future of sony as a camera manufacter in only that product, sony also should not sale sensors to anyone and keep to themselves, bring back mirror and OVF of course, sony should see and go for IMPOSIBLE, became canon its their only option or they will die because i will switch to canon or nikon and all the money sony its making comes from me buying A stuff
lol i only came to SAR to laugh of the second ones lol
Why not do both – provide a wide range of products, and continue to challenge Canon with its A-Mount offerings?
You can’t really call Sony the ‘global leader’, when Canon owns the DSLR market
Because nothing is wrong with a-mount.
FYI – admin is shooting E-mount and from what I see – majority of people surprised by QX success are E-mount shooters, not A-mount.
I know that throwing mud on A-mount gives you upvotes, but at least: don’t lie.
I’m surprise that people surprise that this is surprisingly high demand…
try imagine put this on a quadcopter rather than any mirrorless camera..
Try to use proper verb forms.
How far do you think the quadcopter can fly away from your cellphone?
About as far as a quadcopter with a gopro. Tge cellphone isn’t the restriction.
Wow what’s so surprising about the high demand?
I recently received my QX1 (AMAZING little beast) and I am loving every bit of it, takes great pics, and I love the freedom of angular shooting.
And I’m not alone in my love for the QX series, loads of people in Asia and the middle east love these things. It just makes sense carrying a lighter camera that attaches to your phone rather than a whole extra camera and your phone.
More upskirt videos please!
LOL wow…I never even thought of that possibility. Don’t give the japs that idea!
Wow that’s a funny looking buckler on your loafers. These things will have lots of possibilities for the nefarious minded peeping Tom
Why does that image show an LA-EA4 adapter mounted onto the front of an SEL-1650?
Because it’s a Photoshop fail.
Learned this “much higher than the expectations” trick from Nikon?