You don't notice that the camera is actually doing anything different when anti-shake is turned on, just that you can use slower shutter speeds than normal and still take sharp photos.
Sony seem to have realised the importance of this system, as it is turned on by default in the menu system. Thankfully leaving the anti-shake system on didn't negatively affect the battery-life, with the camera managing over shots before the battery needed to be recharged. After a lot of hunting around , I discovered that the Face Detection feature offered by the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W is only available when you select the Soft Snap scene mode, a strange decision that severely limits its usefulness.
Most other cameras allow you to turn it on of off in the majority of shooting modes. Also Face Detection only really works if the subjects are looking directly at the camera, and the W takes a while to lock onto the subject. Overall it seems like a rather half-hearted implementation, so much so that the tried and trusted method of half-pressing the shutter button to focus and then recomposing the shot is a quicker and more reliable method.
If you have never used a digital camera before, or you're upgrading from a more basic model, reading the comprehensive and understandable manual before you start is a must. Unfortunately Sony have chosen to cut costs and supply the full manual as a PDF on the product CD, rather than in printed format. Only a brief 40 page guide to the basic operation of the camera is supplied in printed format. The 2. The various icons used to represent the camera settings are clear and legible, although a little on the small side considering the large LCD screen.
At the bottom is the Setup option, which displays another 7 options in a list format that you probably won't need to change. Following the recent trend set by other new Sony compacts, there's also a Home button below the Menu button which accesses more features, including image viewing, printing and sharing options, displayed in a slick icon-based interface. As a result, most shots taken with the W have serious artifacts.
The different lenses used by the cameras contribute as well, but both of these shots were taken at the camera's maximum aperture value at their respective 35mm-equivalent focal lengths. Our in-house test photos, shot in a controlled environment using a tripod, show that the W is capable of sharp focus, at least in the center of the picture. In the field, and despite the Super SteadyShot optical image stabilizer, I found it extremely difficult to capture a satisfyingly sharp photo, even just concentrating around the area of focus.
More Galleries Toyota debuts halo Capstone trim for Tundra pickup. Nintendo Switch: The best games to play right now. Movies coming in from Marvel, Netflix, DC and more. Chromatic aberrations appeared in more shots than I would have liked, with some obvious purple fringing effects appearing in high contrast situations. Macro performance is just about average, allowing you to focus as close as 5cms away from the subject. The built-in flash worked well indoors with good overall exposure, and the W's Red-eye Reduction setting also reduced the effects of red-eye quite effectively, albeit replacing it with a subtle green halo.
The night photograph was excellent, with the maximum shutter speed of 30 seconds providing lots of potential for creative night photography. The 12 megapixel images are very slightly soft straight out of the camera, so they don't require further sharpening in an application like Adobe Photoshop.
The anti-shake system worked well to reduce the effects of camera-shake at slower shutter speeds. Latest Reviews Popular Reviews. Macro Shot. Suppressed Flash - Wide Angle 35mm. Nothing unusual when you press the power button—the camera is ready to go in just over a second. Using the 12MP setting, the camera saves x pixel files at only one compression option. I know this is a point-and-shoot digicam but Sony should offer more than one setting, just like Nikon does with its Coolpix cameras including the recently reviewed Nikon CoolPix P This is a shortcut Kodak typically takes; Sony should march to a different, better drum.
I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the LCD screen for framing images, since it worked nicely indoors and out. A flick of the four-way controller makes it gain up. I purposely shot with the sun shining directly into it and I never had to use the viewfinder. Where the lack of pixels makes its presence felt is during playback. Although saving 12MP files, the camera barely labored as I snapped away. If you go into Continuous or Burst mode, it will take five shots in a row at 2 frames per second before pausing with the flash off.
After a few seconds, it takes another five-shot burst and so on. This is pretty amazing for a point-and-shoot digicam.
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