 True shirt pocket camera |
| Review Date: May 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: rwa, UK |
Just under 15 mm thin, 150 solid feeling grams. Fine 12 mp pictures in good light, gets softer in poor light. Quick on, and quick capture, unusually intuitive touch screen menu. Even has respectable 720p video, though not quite worked out how to download it!
Only complaints are that the charger is bigger than the camera, and it is very easy to get finger prints on lens. |
The cutest thing
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| Review Date: July 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: pindalep, |
My criteria for choosing a new camera were simple: small and cool. I wanted something that took nice, clear pictures, didn't require any fiddling around, had a big LCD screen, wasn't too expensive, was small, slim and easy to slip into a pocket or bag and just had a certain cool factor about it that would make me actively enjoy using it. You can see that as a consumer I'm not demanding at all.
So with this in mind I wandered into my local camera shop and had a wee shifty. As soon as I saw this camera I was in love. It was just so sleek and stylish. And when I found out that it had a touch screen I was hooked. No buttons on the back, just a nice, flat, clean space. No big buttons protruding out the top either. This was one streamlined mother. I could almost feel it slipping nicely into a jacket pocket already.
On that basis, I bought the thing and when I took it home I could only be pleasantly surprised by all the functions I hadn't even known it had. HD video, smile detector (wtf!! it refuses to take a pic if you don't smile, when set in that mode! Are we living in Star Trek here?), macro focussing, loads of different setup presets, a large array of manual settings, anti-blur, anti-red eye, anti-just about everything that can spoil a photo. I get the impression that I'll never have time to use all these functions. There's even a setting specifically for taking pictures of food! What kind of geeks are Sony aiming this product at? Funnily enough, I took a photo of a salad I made just to test that function. Yep, it certainly looked very good.
The touch screen is a delight to use and the menus are very intuitive. Photos are well classed, my favourite is the calendar view. This camera really helps you to keep track of everything you do, and the supplied software works well too.
On-screen icons clearly tell you what mode the camera is detecting it needs to be in if you have it on intelligent mode (automatic) and these can be edited at a single touch. The zoom works fine and the zoom button is pleasingly tiny and feels robust.
This whole camera just oozes quality. If you're looking for something sleek, professional and just plain fun to use you will not be disappointed in the Cyber-shot. |
Nice pocket camera
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| Review Date: July 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Chris Hoare, UK |
I take a lot of photos; and this is helping me take more. The T90 is a camera I keep in my pocket at all times for the unexpected. It fits this bill as its incredibly small. Next to my already small (but broken) Nikon S52 pocket it is still tiny. The photos are pretty good (i have high standards.) The stand out feature for me is the macro which seems almost 1:1 and it can focus on tiny objects that are more or less touching the lens.
Like most digital cameras there is no viewfinder; but new for my cameras is that the screen is touch enabled. You can control the focus using face recognition or touch the screen to focus (like the new iPhone.) All the menus are controlled through the screen too. It feels very solid and the photos are quite sharp. I haven't used it at night yet but the photos so far are well exposed (its still summer.)
The biggest downside is it uses memory stick; this might not be an issue for you if you are invested in Sony or this is your first digital camera; besides my Aibo dog this is my only Sony product. |
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