The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX30 is an ultrazoom, mobile device-mountable,
lens-type compact camera manufactured by
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professiona ...
. Announced on September 3, 2014, the QX30 is one of Sony's ''"Smart Lens"'' cameras, alongside the ''
QX1'', ''
QX10'' and ''
QX100'', that are designed to be specifically used with a smartphone. It has a 1/2.3 inch backside-illuminated
Exmor R
Exmor is the name of a technology Sony implemented on some of their CMOS image sensors. It performs on-chip analog/digital signal conversion and two-step noise reduction in parallel on each column of the CMOS sensor.
Exmor RS is the world ...
™
CMOS sensor
An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) active-pixel sensor, MOS field-effec ...
with 20.4 effective
megapixels
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device.
In most digital display devices, pixels are the sm ...
, sitting behind an ''ƒ''/3.5 (wide) to ''ƒ''/6.3 (telephoto) Sony G Lens. Its highlight feature is its 30x lossless optical zoom.
Like the other Sony ''Smart Lens'' cameras, it is Wi-Fi-controlled using an
Android or
iOS
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device though the downloadable Sony Imaging Edge (formerly ''PlayMemories'') Mobile application, utilizing the device's screen as its viewfinder and camera controls, while also serving as additional storage medium via its integrated wireless file transfer feature.
Specifications
Technical specifications
See also
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Sony QX series
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Sony Cyber-shot
Cyber-shot is Sony's line of point-and-shoot digital cameras introduced in 1996. Cyber-shot model names use a DSC prefix, which is an initialism for "Digital Still Camera". Many Cyber-shot models feature Carl Zeiss trademarked lenses, while othe ...
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Sony DSC-QX10
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Sony DSC-QX100
References
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Superzoom cameras
Camera lenses introduced in 2014
DSC-QX30
QX30