Sony Smartphone Lenses - QX10 & QX100

QX100 lens turns your smartphone into a professional DSLR

When I first read about something new from Sony I was honestly very skeptical, it is because the last few years of Sony products and marketing. In the last ten years Sony has been able to lost the leadership in all the main markets and technologies (except maybe for the game consoles, PlayStation). This time instead Sony come up with something really innovative and appealing.
Bluetooth lenses that we can use plugged to our smartphones, Android or Apple, or remotely using the Bluetooth or NFC technologies to pair them  our devices.



These lenses, the QX10 and the QX100, have been  presented during IFA electronics fair in Berlin and the details are as following:

QX10 = f/2.3-5.9 lens and 18 megapixel sensor - probable cost about £180.00
QX100 = f/1.8-4.9 Carl Zeiss lens and 20.2 megapixel sensor - probable cost about £400.00

QX10 lens turns your smartphone into a semi-professional DSLR

The comfortable use of this portable lens can really change the photography vision and way to take pictures, especially for old people like me used to move around a studio with an heavy 6X6 Pentax. Using these lenses remotely will be possible to explore new angles and possibilities. Creativity will be more free to express itself and probably we will be able to plug those lenses to our laptops/tablets/PCs too.







I add to the article this short but enjoyable video from Sony. The video shows as comfortable and easy could be to take high quality images in any circumstances.

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by Claudio Pertini

PHOTOSHOP retouch gone wrong

Magic Hands

Photoshop or Gimp are amazing software that help to improve the images quality.

The results could be really satisfactory but as per any software/application from a wonderful instrument the human kind can create abominations, monsters or just funny images.

Please find a few of them on this post. I hope they will make you smile and I hope these will help you to think while you retouch the pictures, fingers crossed we will not find our images any soon on this post ;)

Extraordinary Muscles 

How to Improve your Popularity

New Bag Design - Invisible

When one is not enough

A Voluntary Disaster?

When the Press makes a Mess

Love is not always accepted as it is

I hope you enjoyed these catastrophic retouching, please feel free to post your experience or other funny/horrible pictures.

I have to thank the following websites from where I took the images:

http://www.psdisasters.com (aka photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com )

http://www.boredpanda.com

http://www.humorcraze.com

http://www.theyfailed.com

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by Claudio Pertini

Photography - the Best and the Worst

Monkey at Batu Caves in Malaysia by Claudio Todaro

As per any respectful so called photographer I will start this blog talking about myself :)

 No, the one showed in the beside portrait is not me.
I took this picture in Malaysia, Batu Caves, a very interesting and colourful location. This was taken inside the main giant cave where the main temple is located.

I have been working in photography for more than 20 years, I am 40 now so you can understand that this is a very long long commitment. I worked in different type of environments and I thought photography in different countries around the world. I can say that I have got a certain experience to judge the technical quality of the images. Photography is an art and so we can have beautiful extremes or horrible results. If you are interested in my opinion about your work send your images over and I will check them out.
The photography work is awesome... when it is well done and better when it is well paid. Unfortunately these qualities often are not associated.
If you want to have my opinion regarding your pictures, please, send them to me. In your post/email please specify if you want to remain anonymous or if I can publish your name. I will be honest and probably I will publish them on this blog. I will be your honest photography consultant.

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Saline (salt fields) with Flamingos in Trapani, Italy - photo by Claudio Todaro

Model in London UK. photo by Claudio Todaro

Mother with baby, murale as background, in Notting Hill - photo by Claudio Todaro