The Cyber-shot QX100 is essentially a point and shoot camera without a viewfinder, designed to be paired with a smartphone over Wi-Fi and NFC. The QX100 comes with a sensor, shutter and zoom controls, a microSD card slot, and internal battery. The QX100 is the higher-end of the two models, packing a 1" 20.2-megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics with 3.6x optical zoom, Bionz image processor, and manual controls for focus and zoom.
Lag experienced when shooting fast moving subjects
Slow to connect
No raw support
Expert reviews and ratings
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The photos look great. It'll do a much better job than your phone, especially in low light. Creative potential abounds if you use it as a disembodied lens for your phone. Around half the price of the RX100 II, which has the same sensor, lens, and image...
The Sony Cyber-shot DCS-QX100 is an example of a bold design as a smartphone add-on lens, but there are performance issues that keep us from recommending...
The more we used the QX100, the more apparent the difference from the QX10 became. Once connected to a phone, the QX100 is difficult to get into your pocket. Even with a big jacket pocket, attached to a big phone like the HTC One, it was just...
The Sony Cybershot QX100 is a very unusual product, it's basically a compact camera without a screen. It has a fast f/1.8 aperture lens and good quality Exmore R CMOS sensor, so picture quality is excellent. There is optical image stabilisation and ISO...
The Sony QX100 smart lens is a digital lens for your phone, pairing the excellent image quality of its large sensor and high-quality glass with the instant editing and social sharing of your Android or iOS phone. If you want to take your mobile...
Using the same sensor and lens as the RX100, the Sony QX-100 delivers on its promises and brings never-before-seen levels of photo and video quality to Android and iOS smartphones. It therefore just manages to bag itself a four-star review. However, it's...
First I saw Paul Rudd, walking in cargo shorts and a very baggy white T-shirt. Then, not 48 hours later, a scruffy Paul Giamatti walked past me on the street holding hands with his son. In both cases, I knew I had to take a picture — you're not really a...
Left to right) An E-mount lens, the QX1 device, a smartphone mount and, allegedly, the yet-to-be-announced Xperia Z3 smartphone from Sony. Image via sonyalpharumorsA new smartphone-mountable camera component from Sony will be equipped with an E-mount...
As any shooter knows, the ability to have a remote-controlled camera small enough to fit in tight spaces is a rare thing. Even more so, is being able to shoot with a 1-inch sensor on a smartphone camera system. That's what makes Sony's new QX100 so...