Sony recently announced its range of camera lenses for smartphone, the QX0 and QX100, and it might just be another evolution in making. As smartphones have been steadily taking over cameras as the prefered medium for amateur photographers, these new lenses can really help settle that debate. The lenses act as a viewfinder as well, and they work with all the smartphones with Wifi. The fact that they work on Wifi and don’t physically connect to the phone might be perturbing, or even discouraging, for some, but this certainly made us realize that this is one technology they aren’t working enough on. Efforts like this can change the future, and they already are, and what was once a rich man’s sport might soon be something everybody can do.
The QX10 will be around $250 when it hits the market, and the QX100 around $500, though we’re still awaiting their official launch for the Indian market. While the QX10 has a 18.2 megapixels Exmor R CMOS sensor, the QX100 is the bigger brother in the family with a 20.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor, the same one found on cyber-shot RX100 II camera. The QX100 also sports a manual zoom ring found on DSLR lenses, something which might help make it feel like the real thing. The official announcement is still pending, though we hope we get our hands on this one for an exclusive review soon. Stay tuned…