While I would love to get my hands on a Sony QX100, I’m not about to dish out $500 to give it a whirl. I learned that lesson when I bought that Polaroid camera a few years ago… long story…
So when Sony announced that they would make a lens attachment for the smart phone (iPhones included), we were all pretty jazzed. You can listen in on that conversation in Episode 67. I did – however – have some reservations about this device.
Lag, I was afraid of lag on this lens. I was also concerned about connectivity. While I did not get to test this, the folks over at Digital Rev TV ran it through its paces and found – you guessed it – a ton of connectivity issues and lag. Boo!
Give it a watch, it’s worth it:
I have a qx100 and the concept is very good and the picture quality albeit JPEG only output are a nice quality with detail. Sadly the sony play memories app is the issue as shown in this video. At the weekend I took 72p pictures and there must have been 20+ restarts of the app required. Luckily sony have opened up the api and both camera+ and camera 360 are going to extend their apps to use the qx100. Sony have delivered