This point-of-view camera allows users to record GPS as they record video on-the-go. The theme of this product is “Prove Yourself”, Sony suggesting that the addition of GPS to video is letting users to show – and prove – that they were rolling out in hardcore sports situations of all sorts. This camera is 25% […]
Sony Cyber-shot DSC QX10
We all know that a large part of photos and videos are shot from smartphones, and the point and shoot camera market share is shrinking. According to a NPD Group study published in December 2011, consumers now take more than a quarter of all photos and videos on smartphones.
Inventing the next generation camera that will be competitive in the smartphone market has become a necessity for manufacturers. Sony has often been at the forefront of product innovation in the past, and with the release of its new “Lens Style Camera”, the company exceeded our expectations. Basically, the Cyber-shot DSC QX100 and DSC-QX10 are stand-alone cameras that look like lenses and that can be attached to a phone to use it as a grip, a view finder and a remote control.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC QX100 and DSC-QX10 “Lens Style cameras” original content from Ubergizmo. 
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At the end of last month, we brought to your attention of a rumor surrounding the yet unreleased Sony QX100 “lens camera” which is said to retail for $450 thereabouts when it is finally released. Well, here we are down slightly more than a week after that rumor hit the grapevine, and there are more details concerning the pricing of not only the Sony QX100, but also the Sony QX10.
These two different models will target contrasting market segments – the Sony QX10 will be the more affordable option, retailing for $250 while packing an 18.2-megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor and 10x optical zoom Sony G lens, not to mention being highly portable with a weight of approximately 113 grams thereabouts.
As for the Sony QX100, the sticker price seemed to have fluctuated upwards this time around, hitting the $500 mark, while boasting a superior 20.2-megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor, which is similar to the sensor you will find in the Cyber-shot RX100 II camera. This particular sensor made its name in being capable of delivering detailed, ultra-low noise images under most lighting conditions, and it will work in tandem with a wide-aperture Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 3.6x optical zoom and a BIONZ image processor.
Sony QX10 And QX100 Pricing And Details Allegedly Leaked original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sony has been as leaky
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I don’t know if 3D cameras ever took off or are taking off, but a simple invention could hasten their downfall. It’s called the Kúla Deeper, an add-on for standard DSLR cameras that uses mirrors to create two side-by-side images or videos.
The Kúla Deeper attaches to 72mm DSLR lenses by default, but Kúla will also release additional lens adapters for other lens sizes. The add-on has four high precision mirrors that create two images and then reflect those two images on the lens. You can immediately enjoy the stereosopic 3D on your camera’s LCD display with the glasses that come with the Kúla Deeper. Kúla will also release a free software called Kulacode that will let you convert the images and videos you captured into various 3D formats.
Cross your eyes and pledge at least €59 (approx. $78 (USD)) on Karolina Fund to get a Kúla Deeper as a reward.
[via Digital Trends]
OPPO recently announced the R819 smartphone. This news came earlier in the month and it looks like the company had recently been promoting the handset over on the official OPPO Google+ page. The post did not offer anything new in terms of details on the OPPO R819, however the comments did offer some details in […]
Oppo’s N1 smartphone has been sitting on our watch list ever since we first got wind of its strange N-Lens camera add-ons, which will apparently offer a choice of zooms up to 15x. Now we can flesh out another key spec: the Chinese handset will run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor, which should more than cope with its equally unusual dual touch inputs and possibly help it to rival other imaging-centric Androids like the Galaxy S4 Zoom and Sony’s upcoming Honami. The HSPA+ Snapdragon processor (MSM8274) was shown on a photo of the N1’s internals that was “leaked” by an Oppo marketing staffer on Sina Weibo — and unless we’re horribly, horribly mistaken, the photo also seems to show a microSD slot to store all those optically stabilized, 16-megapixel images. Barring other significant pseudo-leaks, you can expect the next big N1 update on September 23rd.
Update: Oops! Oppo just reached out to us to say that the N1 doesn’t actually use the Snapdragon 800. Looking back at the original Sina Weibo post, the leakster only said “large screen, flagship” and not “N1,” so perhaps this is actually the rumoured Find 7 instead?
Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Mobile
Source: Oppo N1 (Sina Weibo)
This is Acer’s new giganta-smartphone, the Liquid S2, and it’s sitting on a fairly impressive secret: it’s the world’s first phone to pack a 4K-capable video camera.
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Sony is tipped to announce yet another two new concept imaging devices when IFA 2013 kicks off in Berlin next week. The pair of new ‘lens-camera’ devices which will arrive has already been spotted in the past – and they are the DSC-QX10 and the DSC-QX100 (whose user manual has already leaked out), where they happen to toy with the idea of being mounted onto a smartphone, while containing a built-in imaging sensor, Bionz processor, Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity, an SD memory card slot and of course, a battery.
Not only that, it seems that there are suggestions going around that Sony will christen these lens-cameras the ‘Smart Shot’, which is a mash-up of the words Smartphone and Cyber-Shot. The lenses will also see the incorporation of optical steadyshot stabilization so that even beginners can capture some decent looking shots. Of course, there was an earlier rumor that this particular camera accessory could be known as EspressOn. You know what the Bard has mentioned in the past, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, so we would like to think that regardless of whether it is called Smart Shot or EspressOn, it would still get the job done in a satisfactory manner.
Sony Lens Cameras Could Be Called “Smart Shot” original content from Ubergizmo. 
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We expect our devices to know what’s going on. Automatic doors, smartphones, temperature control systems and beyond all perform actions when they detect certain conditions. And it seems like it would just be convenient to put cameras on everything so devices could have eyes on all different situations. It would also be creepy, but we’ll leave that aside for now.
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