3.5-inch touch screen for easy focus selection and photo viewing
10.2-megapixel "Exmor R" CMOS sensor for stunning low-light performance
iSweep Panorama Mode captures stunning panoramic images
Fast capture with 10fps at full 10.2 MP resolution; 1080i AVCHD Movie records high-quality HD movies
Accepts Memory Stick Duo/Memory Stick PRO Duo/Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo (not included)
This review is from: Sony DSC-TX7 10.2MP CMOS Digital Camera with 4x Zoom with Optical Steady Shot Image Stabilization and 3.5 inch Touch Screen LCD (Silver)I've got my Sony DSC-TX7 from Amazon just a few days ago. First impression - it's very small and thin. Feels very solid and a dark blue color looks pretty good. A wrist strap has been already attached at the factory; otherwise it can easily slip out of your hands. It is pretty good for a party - you can put it into your pocket and do whatever you want, even dance, and this camera will not bother you with its presence. PROS: - Very attractive stylish and solid design, especially in dark-blue color - Ultra-slim body fits any small pocket - Dust-free optics since the lens is not retractable - Big high-resolution 920K colorful display looks like a small TV - Pretty short startup time, no shutter lag, up to 10 frames per sec in burst mode - Accepts SD/SDHC memory cards as well as Sony's proprietary memory-stick cards - Wide 25mm (equiv.) lens - good for indoors and parties - High-precision auto focus and effective image stabilization - Sophisticated noise reduction algorithm greatly improves high-ISO pictures quality - Advanced Hand-held Twilight mode for low-light pictures - Special Backlight Correction HDR mode for high-contrast scenes - Wide auto-stitch panorama mode - High-quality front-side stereo microphones - Smooth and silent zoom, auto focus, and optical image stabilization - Very nice Full High-Definition 1080 60i video - Unusually good video quality and high sensitivity in VGA mode - Intuitive well-thought-out menu with the easy to use touch-screen CONS: - New "Exmor R" sensor seems much faster but more noisy than CCD ones - Aggressive noise reduction is prone to obliterate small picture details - Relatively short battery life and slow charger BUILD: The build quality is very good and I generally like its construction. The only issue is the shifting of the lens cover to turn camera on and off - that mechanism is pretty tight but the lens cover does not have any kind of prominence you could grasp to move that resisting shield up and down. STARTUP: The startup time is pretty short - about 1 sec. The time of recording of a single picture into the memory card might vary from 1 to 2 sec without flash and about 2 sec with flash. In the burst mode you can take 10 shots for just 1 sec but then you should wait for about 10 sec while they're being writing to the memory. The menu provides a friendly interface to manage those groups of shots. DISPLAY: TX7 has a big 3.5" bright high-resolution display with 920K pixels and a wide angle of view which is easily visible even in a direct sunlight. With its vivid colors and clarity it looks like a small TV with a 16:9 wide-screen. MENU: Most of the camera's functionality is accessible via that touch-screen display. TX7 has a very intuitive menu which is visually divided into 3 parts - narrow left and right vertical bars and a big central area. On the top of the right bar you can see the remaining battery charge indicator, available number of pictures, current shooting format and resolution. In the lower part there are the two buttons: Shooting Mode and Playback. If you touch the mode button a list of the available modes will appear in the central part: Intelligent Auto, Program Auto, iSweep Panorama, Movie, Anti Motion Blur, Hand-held Twilight, Backlight Correction HDR, and Scenes. The left navigation bar has a "Menu" button on the top with 4 predefined icons below. It you touch that "Menu" button the central area will display icons of the parameters which in conjunction with the left-bar ones represent all the available shooting attributes for the currently selected shooting mode. The most interesting is that if you touch the gearwheel icon on the top, then you can drag with your finger any of 4 icons from the left bar toward the center of the central screen area and drop it there. And then you can touch any other available icon from the central area and the similar way move it to the empty slot on the left bar. By doing this you can customize that quick-access menu separately for each shooting mode the way you need (make sure you touch firmly and drag slowly). And the same way you can choose those quick-access icons for the playback mode as well. ADVANCED FEATURES: TX7 has a number of advanced modes which could be helpful in the difficult light conditions.THH: "Twilight Hand-Held" mode can help either to improve a low-light picture quality when the using of flash is prohibited, or to get a pi...
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