Fantastic Camara (Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1)

Member Name: garryciao

Product:	Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1
Date:	08/11/09 (18 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great Low Light Photos, Great built in settings & Features, Fast start up .

Disadvantages: Price, Slight noise on pictures at high ISO .

The DSC-WX1 features a 10.2-megapixel "Exmor R" CMOS image sensor, G lens for fast speed, high resolution, and Fantastic low-light sensitivity with improved image clarity and drastically reduced grain--2x better than traditional sensors of equivalent size and pixel count. 5 x Optical Zoom, 24mm wide angle lens, BIONZ image processor delivers extremely fast 10fps. Anti Motion Blur, Hand-held Twilight and 720p movie modes, battery: Li-ion rechargeable gives Approx 350 shots 150 min video shooting time, ISO 160-3200, In-Camera Editing : Trimming / Red Eye Correction
Program Auto, Scene Recognition Auto, Easy, Sweep Panorama, Anti Motion Blur, Handheld Twilight, SCN, Movie. Optical Steady Shot image stabilization, Smile and Face Detection, 10 frames burst mode, Movie, Auto Adjustment, Water Scenes, High Sensitivity, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Hi-speed Shutter, Underwater, Food, Pets.

Camera is very easy to use and set up, the large 2.7" LCD screen on the back looks very nice and makes reading and selecting menu text and items easy.
The low light photos this WX1 takes are fantastic, although i have not used it extensively all photos taken have been good with very little noise.

You can just put the WX1 in auto mode (easy) and it detects the scene automatically, again it does a fantastic job at this even as to use fill in flash.
Smile and Face Detection work really well and you can select who's face it uses (Up to 8), and how big the smile needs to be before it automatically takes the shot, keep a glum face and it will wait till you smile. It also has Blink and face motion detection.

Really love the sweep panoramic mode, Just select the Sweep Panoramic mode on the back, push the shoot button and move the WX1 slowly round and it automatically stitches the photo together for a great panoramic photo.
Video function is good Using the MPEG-4 (.MP4) format, Record up to 29 minutes (or up to 2 GB) per movie in 720p format, Camera mic is mono. You can also use the Zoom during recording. 1280 x 720 (Fine) (Approx.30fps, Progressive); 1280 x 720 (Standard) (Approx.30fps, Progressive); 640 x 480 VGA (Approx.30fps, Progressive)

Bracketed exposure, set it to automatically take 3 photos with the exposure set 0.3/0.7/1.0 apart. this it great for HDR photography or just to get the right exposure.
Has some in camera memory but uses the Memory Stick PROTM upto 16Gb sticks, i'm using the Sandisk 4Gb rather than the Sony Branded type and they work fine.

I'm using the camera with Windows 7 and it works fine.
This WX1 packs a lot of great features(which for the money it should).

Summary: it is so nice

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