Sony QX10 and QX100 evaluation: a good idea but not a good product

You have a wonderful time on the road, want to record it, but your mobile phone camera is slag, what to do now? Sony has given their solution. The 499 dollar QX100 and the 249 dollar QX10 are designed for this moment, they look like lenses, but they function like cameras, some call them "external cameras," and they are extended as mobile phones, and no matter how you understand them, they are good partners for smartphones, which greatly improve the quality of the photos. Connect QX100 and QX10 to the phone, and you can edit and share the photos. They can be connected to any Android or iOS device. Ready, aiming QX10 and QX100 are not simple, these two black plastic cylinders are not just the lenses that extend from behind the smartphone, they are complete cameras. After inserting the microSD card in QX10 and QX100, the camera doesn't even need a cell phone-it's just that the two machines are missing the viewfinder. QX10 is the younger brother of the two, 2.5 inches in diameter, slightly above 1 inches in height, weighing about 6 ounces, and perfectly fit into the pockets. QX100 are about twice times the height and weight of QX10, but in some ways it is easier to use. Operation QX10 sometimes the fingers will block in front of the camera and affect the shooting, but QX100 will not appear this problem, especially for the larger hands of the user. Both devices are strong and a certain degree of fall will not cause damage. Both cameras are fully functional-just aim at your shooting target, use the variable zoom on the left to zoom, press the shutter on the right, and a picture will be taken. They even have a tripod interface, but if you are willing to take a tripod, then saving space is certainly not your most concerned about the problem, naturally do not care to take a larger volume of photographic equipment. Just using a camera to take a picture is obviously unrealistic, and you can't see what you're doing-like using Google Glasses for a photo shoot, I've found that a lot of photos taken with it either don't shoot the object's head or the background is tilted. and using the lens alone looks strange, as if using a sci-fi weapon, press the button to put the other side in the small round barrel. When you use it, you have to shout, "I call you, do you dare to say yes?" With detachable clips, you can QX100 and QX10 lenses to the back of the phone, which makes the camera comfortable. With one hand holding the right side of the phone, the other hand dragging the camera, the phone seems to become a micro-single camera. Sony offers a matching clip that can be used on almost any phone, from the Galaxy Mega to the iphone 4s, which is best suited to the size of the HTC One phone. Physical connectivity is nothing compared to the software level. When you use the Sony playmemories cell phone to connect to the lens, the handset becomes the viewfinder, the hard drive and the remote controller, and it can manipulate much better than the camera on the phone itself.Prepared。 There are 2 ways to connect QX lenses and mobile phones. It's easy to NFC: On any mobile phone that supports NFC, it's easy to pair with a qx lens to touch it. If you have a playmemories application installed on your phone, it will automatically open and ready to shoot, and if you haven't already downloaded it, the phone will automatically jump to the appropriate location in the App Store. For mobile phones that don't have NFC (especially the iphone), you'll have to get into trouble by using Wi-Fi to connect--into a setup, connect to a camera ad hoc network, enter a password, and then enter the PlayMemories application to see if the connection is successful. The process is as cumbersome as connecting all Sony's Wi-Fi cameras, in fact, connecting QX100 is no different from connecting RX100 or NEX6. Click to watch the video it is worth mentioning that the QX10 and QX100 filming process is not rapid, open the application, connect the camera, ready to take the process of taking a picture is often 5-10 seconds, if you want to use a clip to fix the QX to the mobile phone and add another 10 seconds. It also has to wait for the photos to go through Wi-Fi from the camera to the phone (if you choose to transmit the full file instead of the 2 million pixel thumbnail), this is an extremely test-patient experience. More importantly, this often leads you to miss a lot of precious shooting moments. The biggest advantage of smartphones is speed and convenience, Sony's external lens in these two aspects is definitely a big setback. Of course, time is not always the most important if you want to use QX lenses to get better photos than your phone.