The other side of this story is that the Sony DSC-QX10 is slightly fascinating.
I'm not a big photographer. I take a lot of photographs but not with any skill or knowledge and those DSLRs always seem too big and expensive. But I am envious of that depth of field your proper photographers get, so this seemed like it might be a cheapish way to do it.
It turns out to be more interesting than that.
It's not perfect AT ALL. The software is typically, oddly, bad, the support we've discussed. But the physical thing seems like proper old-school Sony, well-made, well thought about and at its heart there's a Walkman-like idea about removing something that once seemed essential.
It's a camera without a viewfinder, or a lens for a smart phone. However you think of it, it feels like something new.
It depends on the smart phone, it assumes its existence, it uses that existence to enable new behaviour.
Because having the lens and the viewfinder in different hands makes for different kinds of pictures. Not that I can show you many examples because those ones are mostly of my friends and I've not asked if they mind appearing on here. But you can imagine.
It seems a bit like the Sony Rolly, an object spat out of Sony's mad spiraling search for purpose that's actually a bit of the future. It's a companion object. And, one day, once they've fixed all the laggy, buggy connectivity and software it'll just be the way cameras are.
