One of the most intriguing products to appear at this year's IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin is Sony's QX-series of "lens cameras."
At first glance both the QX10 and QX100 look like conventional lenses for an SLR (single lens reflex) camera but there's more to them. They are essentially compact digital still cameras without screens and control buttons.
Behind the lens in each of the devices is a image sensor -- the chip found inside every camera that converts light to an electronic image, an image processing chip and a WiFi adapter. Both come with a clip that can be used to mount them to a smartphone and it's software in the smartphone that is used to control them and replace the viewfinder.
The idea is that users get the best of both worlds -- compact digital camera quality images with the advantages of smartphone photography, such as the ability to instantly upload or share pictures.
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