Sony QX100: like a minute to turn a smartphone into a steep camera
Android Ios / / December 19, 2019
The emergence and success in the market of compact mirrorless cameras, which in quality photos can compete with comparable cost SLR, Sony forced to reflect on the creation of an entirely new niche devices. The result is called smartografom and presented to the public in the third quarter of last year. Two models - QX10 and QX100 - attached to your smartphone, and ensure the quality of filming is much higher than the built-in camera. In return, the company's engineers need to sacrifice convenience and rather big amount of money. How justified the purchase of the accessory, at a cost commensurate with the top-end smartphone? Let's face it.
On the test we went to the older model - QX100. On paper, the differences from the younger are enlarged in size, of the matrix and a steep high-aperture optics. In practice - we get an excellent, detailed picture with clear color reproduction and minimal noise in the classroom at night. Such improved performance could not affect on the overall dimensions of the device: its compact can not be called precise. But at the same time, the QX100 take in your bag much less space than any budget bezzerkalka.
Traditionally smartografa build quality, like most of the other company's products, no complaints - Sony maintains its reputation. It is made of metal, no backlash and squeaks no. The main body of the loop is provided for the strap and the bottom - grooves for a special "pegs", with which the camera clings to the body of the phone. All surfaces of contact with the body of the last smartphone rubberized, which guarantees enough good anchorage and protection from scratches. Range of adjustment is quite enough for the camera settings in the 5-5.5 "smartphones. But if you use something like the Xperia Z Ultra or the Lumia 1320, for example, the QX100 is not for you, keep this in mind when purchasing.
The first connection to the camera is unlikely to take place you smoothly. By the way, it can be carried out both by means of Wi-Fi, and thanks to the NFC. If you are the owner of Android-smartphone with similar technology, it is sufficient to remember the location of the NFC-tag on your device's housing. Otherwise you will have to use the connection over the wireless network. This is a much longer and more inconvenient little fact that has to be disconnected from the other networks, and the process takes about 10-15 seconds, which can reduce the image on the desirability of not. Moreover, for the first time, you definitely have a good search before you find the password from the network created smartografom.
In the future, all manipulations with the chamber will pass through the Sony Play Memories special application. Not to say that it is incredibly easy to use, but performs its tasks as needed. With it, you can change the shooting mode, aperture value and exposure, adjust the values of the white balance manually or by using the presets. In general, there is everything that you expect to see in the interface of the modern camera.
By the way, all the work of processing the image takes on an embedded processor Bionz, a smartphone performs a display function, and controls the process of shooting. Last but not least thanks to the autofocus is fast and accurate white balance is determined correctly, and the colors are transferred as accurately as possible.
What a bunch of QX100 and the smartphone can accurately give odds to all competitors in the class DSLRs and bezzerkalok, it's a social component. Given that we live in a time when every photo instantly downloaded to Instagram or Facebook, phone and direct interaction smartografa - a huge plus. Yes, many modern cameras are already equipped with Wi-Fi-module and Wi-Fi-card is no longer a gimmick, but it is convenient and quick to make shots you do not spill over in any case.
Another trump card - the photo quality. Four-optical zoom, the optical stabilization, aperture f / 1,8-4,9 lens Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T *, the matrix Exmor R 1 inch - thereby QX100 can accurately compete with the mirrorless cameras medium price range. Detail and sharpness of the height and quality of the level of images that can be easily printed in high resolution.
Video is written in Full HD with a frequency of 29 frames per second. Here the situation is worse than photos, but get a good movie under conditions of good lighting is still possible. To start recording, the memory card must be inserted into the camera, otherwise nothing happens.
If we consider the gadget as a camera, it turned out just fine, but if as an accessory - not bad, with the caveat that you are using a smartphone with NFC. Therefore, the main question that remains unresolved and probably bothers many and will be a decisive factor when buying - the price. The gadget is priced at $ 550, and you can not say it is expensive or not, given PhotoChances offered by the Sony and the fact that competitors have no QX100. This is a product-an experiment, a new niche in the camera market, and to give him an independent assessment is also difficult. With this lineup the company to test the waters on the mobile photography market, and one thing is clear: at Sony will draw conclusions and, most likely, we will soon see the second generation smartografov.