On the off chance that you could promise your telephone had the greatest camera sensor, the best lens, and more profound controls than something else out there for the following couple of years, that'd be something worth being thankful for, yes? What's more, on the off chance that this super camera happened to be separable, giving you a chance to utilize it with future telephones, that'd be far and away superior, isn't that so?
That is basically the guarantee of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX100, a $450 appendable lens-style camera that clasps onto your cell phone. Tragically, while the thought sounds incredible on paper, by and by you rapidly find some key failings.
The QX100 comes outfitted with a balanced out F1.8 lens with optical zoom and a vast 1-inch-sort sensor. Sony has contracted down the guts of its previous lead minimal camera–the $700 Cyber-shot RX100 II–into a gadget the measure of a container of Vienna wieners.
That is basically the guarantee of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX100, a $450 appendable lens-style camera that clasps onto your cell phone. Tragically, while the thought sounds incredible on paper, by and by you rapidly find some key failings.
The QX100 comes outfitted with a balanced out F1.8 lens with optical zoom and a vast 1-inch-sort sensor. Sony has contracted down the guts of its previous lead minimal camera–the $700 Cyber-shot RX100 II–into a gadget the measure of a container of Vienna wieners.
Picture quality is top-rack. The QX100 will beat any cell phone for a long time to come. It's superior to anything for all intents and purposes each reduced camera, as well. Its substantial 20-megapixel sensor, combined with its wide-gap and wide-edge zoom lens (28mm to 100mm) helps it exceed expectations in low light and catch shallow profundity of field.
As you may expect with any lens-and-sensor tube, there's no LCD board; rather, you interface the QX100 to your cell phone through Wi-Fi Direct and utilize your cell phone as its viewfinder and control board. You needn't bother with a Wi-Fi hotspot. The camera appears as an entrance point for your telephone, and you write in a secret key imprinted on the underside of the QX100's battery compartment to interface the gadgets. On the off chance that you have an Android gadget, you can ease future pairings with a straightforward NFC knock.
As yet, utilizing the QX100 depends vigorously on that Wi-Fi association, and that is the place this gadget begins to frustrate. It has simple equipment controls incorporated with it–a screen catch and a zoom control–but you'll be shooting blind in the event that you just utilize those. To see what you're snapping and to make modification, you have to combine it with your telephone and control it with Sony's free PlayMemories Mobile application for iOS or Android.
That basic Wi-Fi association works OK the length of the QX100 and a gadget are right alongside one other. Yet, in the event that the telephone is 10 feet far from the QX100, the remote controls get laggy. When you're attempting to zoom and snap from a far distance, there's a beat or two of postponement. More awful yet, you're regularly met with a spinning association status symbol, which can take a few moments to determine. It's a level of controls-slack that hasn't existed in cameras for around 10 years, and all that Wi-Fi reliance saps its battery life. The QX100 gets around 200 shots for each charge, which is powerless.
When you take a shot, the Wi-Fi association spares a two-megapixel review to your telephone right away. From that point, you can select to exchange a full-determination picture to your device–if you have a MicroSD card embedded in the QX100. If not, it'll spare that low-res form as it were. There's additionally no real way to erase shots on the card from your telephone. That implies you're screwed over thanks to two-megapixel shots if your MicroSD card tops off until you can physically erase them from the card.
This sawed-off camera has a sawed-off list of capabilities contrasted with the RX100 II. There's no full-manual introduction, no burst mode, less video alternatives, no RAW-shooting mode, and no blaze. You do, be that as it may, get opening need and a "Project Auto" mode, where you can change the introduction pay. There are two auto modes, and the best one (Superior Auto) utilizes burst shooting and picture stacking to broaden the dynamic reach. There's a manual center choice that gives you a chance to utilize a ring around the lens to calibrate concentrate, however there's no amplified perspective to bail you out. It's truly just helpful in case you're utilizing the QX100 while it's mounted on your telephone.
That is a disgrace, on the grounds that the QX100's best characteristics are the strange things you can do when it's not mounted to your telephone. Utilizing it as a little, incorporeal lens you can control remotely gives you a chance to get inventive and have a fabulous time, and its little size and level base make any level surface a specially appointed tripod. (There's an appropriate tripod mount on the QX100, as well.)
You can stick it in a blossom bed indicating upward for a bug's-eye perspective of blooms and the sky. You can put it close to some birdseed or a sustenance dish to get ground-level shots of pigeons or canines. You can point it at your cell phone screen for a limitlessness shot. You can likewise take decent selfies, in case you're into that kind of thing. (That is, you can do all these fun things on the off chance that you can deal with a laggy association because of the telephone being a few feet far from the QX100.)
On the off chance that you do utilize the QX100 while it's appended to your telephone, the mount is a very much outlined piece that keeps it safely associated. It turn locks onto the back of the camera, and has two flip-out gripper tabs that embrace the edges of your telephone. One of them has a spring-stacked arm that keeps the 7-ounce gadget clipped on firmly. It's shockingly cozy, notwithstanding when you swing your telephone around. In any case, the mount hinders the QX100's battery compartment, so make a point to include the Wi-Fi secret word underneath the battery entryway before you wind it on.
When it's physically mounted and remotely associated, the QX100 works to a great extent as publicized. The issue is, it's a four-stage prepare that pauses for a moment, and strolling around with the QX100 for all time connected to your telephone isn't a practical alternative. Other than mounting specifically to your telephone, it doesn't do anything unique in relation to Wi-Fi-empowered premium compacts. While it might offer further cell phone controls than the RX100 II, the last is a far unrivaled general bundle. In addition, conservative cameras are much more pocket-accommodating than the can-formed QX100.
That is a definitive condemnation of the QX100: It's another article you'll have to bear. The truth of the matter is you're in an ideal situation bearing a decent Wi-Fi minimal camera. It's an accomplishment of building and creative energy, it takes awesome photographs, and it's less expensive than Sony's comparative top of the line compacts. Issue is, it isn't precisely shabby. The value, the slack, the bulky shape, the battery life, and the way that it's inadmissible as a standalone camera make it a hard offer.
Editorial manager's Note: Sony cases to have enhanced the underlying Wi-Fi association speed for the QX100 by means of a firmware redesign. The organization likewise included a couple of all the more shooting modes–shutter-need mode and a more extensive scope of ISO settings–most prominently. The QX100 equipment we tried didn't have this firmware overhaul, however the fundamental issues we had with the camera were generally random.
