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DxO ONE Smartphone Camera Adds Stand-Alone Mode, Cuts Base Price $100

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DxO today announced a new "dramatically enhanced stand-alone experience" for its DxO ONE camera, granting users the ability to take pictures with the miniaturized device without needing to tether it to their smartphone. The DxO ONE's OLED display helps its users line up a shot, which they can then capture easily thanks to the on-board two-stage shutter button.

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The connected app allows for full customization of the camera's various settings like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, metering, and white balance. When using stand-alone mode, the DxO ONE remembers the most recent settings of the app and preserves them in the pictures taken without a smartphone. As the company explains in its press release, "For example, if you prefer to capture portraits at f/1.8, the camera will always be ready at f/1.8 when you pull it out of your pocket."
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In addition to the stand-alone experience, the new DxO update brings a couple of other features to the camera:
Version 1.3 also introduces a host of other features including motion blur alert, and an elegant new way to dial in white balance, metering and focus modes, which can also be viewed as overlays in the viewfinder along with your iPhone battery level. Browsing photos is faster than ever, with the gallery now sorted in the same order as in iOS Photos.

You can be sure your images were successfully shared thanks to a new visual confirmation message, and you can set a preferred JPEG compression level for photos, and bitrate for videos. Of note, an innovative Message Center now provides a direct connection to DxO, with in-app access to current information designed to help you get the most out of your DxO ONE.
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The company has also unbundled DxO FilmPack and DxO OpticsPro from the package, two pieces of software that gives users a more in-depth dive into picture editing, and will sell them separately. The removal of the software has dropped the price of the DxO One by $100, so those interested can buy the camera for $499 from the company's online store.

The DxO ONE app can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

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DxO should stick to what they do best: Catering to pixel peekers everywhere with their camera and lens testing benchmarks. If I remember right, doesn't this thing have the same sensor as the Sony RX100II? You can pickup that whole camera for $498—often times cheaper with sales. I got up the original RX100 for $300 during an after Christmas sale in early 2014 as a way for my wife to snap quality photos (that I could edit in RAW) of our then soon to be born child. Heck of a camera in a small package. If you have to carry both around separately in your pocket, why buy this? The RX100II also supports sending photos to your phone over WiFi.

For me, this thing is a non-starter at $499. It would have to be around $199, and that's if I didn't already have the RX100.
 
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I would like to see a version 2 with 4K video and better stabilization. It would also be cool to have an LED light that matches the intensity of the iPhone LED light. This would double the light intensity during night video recording and also make the light distribution more even.
 
macduke said:
DxO should stick to what they do best: Catering to pixel peekers everywhere with their camera and lens testing benchmarks. If I remember right, doesn't this thing have the same sensor as the Sony RX100II? You can pickup that whole camera for $498—often times cheaper with sales. I got up the original RX100 for $300 during an after Christmas sale in early 2014 as a way for my wife to snap quality photos (that I could edit in RAW) of our then soon to be born child. Heck of a camera in a small package. If you have to carry both around separately in your pocket, why buy this? The RX100II also supports sending photos to your phone over WiFi.

For me, this thing is a non-starter at $499. It would have to be around $199, and that's if I didn't already have the RX100.
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I agree that it should be cheaper, but $199 is too low if you consider that the only expensive component the DxO looses vs. a "real camera" is the display. A great 1" sensor and good glass just are not that cheap. Also, it's much smaller than the RX100, making it actually fit in a trouser pocket.
 
This is amazing! A camera that can take pictures without your smartphone? And it simply requires a smartphone to adjust the settings? Wow! /sarcasm

Seriously, what am I missing about this product? Someone above shared screen shots, and since I don't know which image came from the device all I know for certain is that I'm not the target market. So, who is?
 
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This is amazing! A camera that can take pictures without your smartphone? And it simply requires a smartphone to adjust the settings? Wow! /sarcasm

Seriously, what am I missing about this product? Someone above shared screen shots, and since I don't know which image came from the device all I know for certain is that I'm not the target market. So, who is?
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According to the Facebook link, the top photo is from the iPhone. And apparently, Bloom also doesn't think the DxO ONE is "worth it."
 
I love the camera but its still just too expensive. At $299, i might think about it. But $499 extremely limits their market and i just cant amagine anyone buying it for recreational use.
 
I really thought the top photo was the expensive add on. I was wrong. The iPhone 6s+ camera is more impressive than I realized. I should experiment with it more than just taking random shots.
 
Phillip Bloom says the DXOOne is the bottom one.
The answer should be obvious. Sign of a quality sensor is highlight roll off. Nothing more challenging than sun in shot.
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I'd be willing to bet that the DXO's "lack" of sharpness is correctable in post-- yay for raw-- while the iPhone's rendition of the sun isn't, and wouldn't be, even if the iPhone had a raw mode.
 
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I agree that it should be cheaper, but $199 is too low if you consider that the only expensive component the DxO looses vs. a "real camera" is the display. A great 1" sensor and good glass just are not that cheap. Also, it's much smaller than the RX100, making it actually fit in a trouser pocket.
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The RX100 is fairly small. As I said, both fit in a pocket. I own one. So why choose this gimped version for the same price? It's gimmicky. People should just buy the real one and not be so limited, like nearly half the battery life, no zoom, no 60fps 1080p video, no hot shoe, and a lack of physical controls. The size difference isn't significant.
 
Cwolk said:
I love the camera but its still just too expensive. At $299, i might think about it. But $499 extremely limits their market and i just cant amagine anyone buying it for recreational use.
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I own one and it is absolutely too expensive. I managed to lobby DxO for a discount since I"m already a user of their processing software and didn't need the bundle, so they knocked $150 off for me, but even then, $299-$399 is a better ballpark I think.

It is, however, hands-down better than my 6Plus's camera at everything except video, since it has no stabilization. Since I do quite a bit of trailrunning and chasing after kids, having something just in my pocket that is simple to turn on and just click-away makes for keepable pictures in situations where the effort would be much greater for lesser quality otherwise. So it fits my admittedly narrow niche.

But still.. too pricey.
 
Not worth it. Once you start carrying another object besides the phone, it should be a small quality point and shoot and call it a day. Especially considering the price. The iPhone alone disappoints when the scene has a combination of significant lights and darks with some intermediary tones that you want to capture. It cannot handle it and there's no control for modulating the capture.
 
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