This'll confuse the "a phone is not a camera" brigade

Crikey. What an oddity, but at the same time not entirely unreasonable.

I'd like to see what it looks like without a lens mounted. Is it going to be viable as a smartphone?
 
It lacks the one major advantage that I think some compact cameras have, a viewfinder. I will happily use a camera phone IF I can see the screen! That for me at the moment is the biggest drawback not sensor size etc..
 
From what I can see in that article, there's no mention of the camera having any phone capability. Possibly using a VOIP app? Wasn't there an Android capable compact a few years ago?
 
Plus the Canon mount adds bulk in what would otherwise be a very small package. The Oly pancake and body cap lenses would be a natural, with the ability to whack on a long lens if you wanted. Can't see it selling much in that incarnation, and the quality of current crop of phone cameras being what it is makes it a very niche product. Don't Sony do something where the lens is remove from the body/phone, connecting by wifi, or is that my fevered imagination?
 
Baloo said:
It lacks the one major advantage that I think some compact cameras have, a viewfinder. I will happily use a camera phone IF I can see the screen! That for me at the moment is the biggest drawback not sensor size etc..
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I agree about the view finder, on the other hand I have been known to use a 5x4 view camera and the ground glass on that is hard to see :-)

I do think this is a bit of a gimmick but Yongnuo must think they will sell some, my real doubt though is the use of Canon EF lenses rather than MFT lenses from a size and cost point of view. It seems to put it in an odd place in the market.
 
sexy-looking gear. :giggle:

I'd want a flip up screen to shoot from the hip. ;)
 
sirch said:
I agree about the view finder, on the other hand I have been known to use a 5x4 view camera and the ground glass on that is hard to see :)

I do think this is a bit of a gimmick but Yongnuo must think they will sell some, my real doubt though is the use of Canon EF lenses rather than MFT lenses from a size and cost point of view. It seems to put it in an odd place in the market.
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I have been watching what Yongnuro are doing with 4/3rds being a 4/3rds user myself, I think it is interesting, as soon as they bring out one with a viewfinder I will take a punt.
 
Nod said:
From what I can see in that article, there's no mention of the camera having any phone capability. Possibly using a VOIP app? Wasn't there an Android capable compact a few years ago?
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Samsung had a 3G Galaxy camera in 2012. I got one in Tesco reduced to £70, used it for one day while I prepared my ebay advert :D

https://www.samsung.com/uk/cameras/galaxy-camera-wifi-gc100/

Ham said:
Don't Sony do something where the lens is remove from the body/phone, connecting by wifi, or is that my fevered imagination?
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They did two variations, one with 1/2.3" sensor and one with the 1 inch sensor which basically made it the same as the RX100II. Thought about getting one for Mrs Sprout but after reading/watching reviews we decided that the faff involved with starting it up and connecting to phone would make it almost unusable for her.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1040220037/first-look-sony-qx10-qx100-mobile-cameras
 
Going on how uncomfortable I find actual phones to use for photos, I'd avoid this like the plague. Maybe, as a current M43 shooter, if it had the M43 mount I'd be more curious. They used the EF mount I believe because they are already invested into it, they have a number of lenses already available for that mount and none for M43 to date.
 
I really don't know. It's logical that cameras of the future will be much more like smartphones as that's where the majority of customers will evolve from, eg Zeiss ZX1 and others. But actually, for enthusiast photography I wonder if the gap is just too big to bridge, regardless. Proper cameras are just different - fish and fowl.

A few years ago, Sony launched the QX clip-on camera modules for smartphones that Barrysprout linked above. Basically a lens and sensor unit that used the phone's screen and control system.
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1040220037/first-look-sony-qx10-qx100-mobile-cameras
I liked the idea very much but after an initial flourish in the gadget-obsessed Japanese market, it didn't catch on. Maybe it didn't work as well or so seamlessly as it should, but it still seems like a better way forward than this Yongnuo.

Perhaps if Apple did it things would be different but they seem to have passed on that option and are pinning everything on smartphones and computational image enhancement. We'll know in a few years, but I wouldn't bet against Apple who are pouring huge amounts of R&D into all camera options.
 
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