Matt Warman reports.
Digital photography has revolutionised how we all take pictures – rolls of
film and bulky lenses have, for many, been replaced by the simple camera built
into a smartphone, while enthusiasts have upgraded to increasingly advanced
models that would have been impossible in an analogue age. The idea of editing,
cropping and improving a picture the second it’s been taken is commonplace, and
sometimes automatic.
But some things have become worse, too: while we take billions of pictures,
many languish impossible to find on memory cards or online, the lack of an index
rendering them useless and the far greater quantity more a burden than a
benefit. And while more photographs are printed out – thanks to innovative
services such as Stickygram you can even customise your own iPad case – the
quality of those pictures is often hampered by poor lenses and small sensors.
Cramming a proper camera into a tiny spare space in a smartphone is not easy.
Companies such as Nokia have long emphasised that their phones come with
excellent cameras, but the public has not seen that as sufficient reason to buy
them in enormous numbers. This year at the Europe’s enormous technology jamboree
in Berlin, Sony, however, took a different approach.
The ‘Smart Lens’ seeks to use the smartphone as a complement to serious
photography, by using its processing power and adding only a much better – and
totally independent – lens and sensor. Photographs taken at a much higher
resolution are stored on the lens’s own memory card, but all the editing can
take place on the smartphone. And while the lens can be mounted on the phone
itself, it can also work on a range of up to 10m. So in a crowd it’s easy to
hold the lens up above your head and use the screen held in your other hand to
see what’s going on.
Called the QX10 and QX100, and retailing at £149 and £399 respectively,
Sony’s lenses are not cheap. But the QX100, for instance, gives you everything
currently available in the £550 Sony camera on which it is based.
Read on at The Telegraph
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