Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 Review

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 captures landscapes with one bit using Sweep Panorama, get that excellent portrait with Smile Shutter, snap wider scenes with the 26mm wide angle lens, get prime quality photos with fourteen.1 megapixels, and automatically get clear shots with SteadyShot image stabilization and iAuto; all in a very sleek very little style.

Smile Shutter technology captures a smile the instant it happens. Merely press the Smile Shutter button and also the camera wills the remainder. You’ll additionally choose adult and kid priority and indicate the degree of Smile Detection Sensitivity. Intelligent Scene Recognition will currently be used along side Smile Shutter mode when the Intelligent Auto mode is on. This implies that lovely smiles are often captured with settings optimized for the actual scene, even in troublesome conditions like twilight and backlighting.

A powerful fourteen.1 megapixel ½.3-inch Super HAD CCD image sensor helps you capture beautiful pictures with very good distinction and clarity right down to the best detail. With 14.1 megapixels, you'll produce gorgeous, photo-quality prints up to A3+ (13x19-inch) size, or crop your pictures and still come back away with high resolution shots.

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 Review: Photo Quality

My initial day out indicated that they have made dramatic improvements in both quality and speed. Photos in daylight were crisp and clear in just about every shot, and any that weren't were only because I was shooting poorly on purpose to test the photos. I was also quite happy with the quality of shots in low light and indoors, which is where I noticed the most improvement over past Sony low-end offerings. There was some blurring in darker situations, of course, but for the most part the software was able to produce images that are well balanced and low grain. The 14 megapixel feature is great - there are many photos I've been able to crop and retain quality, and photos of, say, a stone sarcophagus can be zoomed in upon when viewing images later to see very good detail.

I must also mention that the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 is very good at balancing photos. It almost always produces a picture with an appropriate contrast, and only in the worst cases did the image wash out in an area. For example, a shot of Joan of Arc (the statue, not the person) in Notre Dame came out very well even with a stained glass window in the background. The stained glass was bright but distinguishable, and the detail of the stone statue was clear and well balanced. Only in extreme cases - such as a shot of a black sculpture in the Louvre with a window behind it with blaring sunlight - did the camera fail to balance the image, but these are the kind of bad photography shots one would never expect a camera to take well.

Types of Photos: Like most all snapshot photos, this Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 will perform best shooting still subjects with plenty of light. Moving objects didn't tend to blur, a problem I'd had with other cheap snapshot cameras, but the response time can make getting these shots difficult. Trying to capture a motorcycle passing an old church, my 7-10 attempts were mostly good photos, but getting the moving bike in the exact spot I wanted was nearly impossible.

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 Review: Features

Overall, this Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 lacks in features, although for most uses I found it sufficient, and at the price I didn't expect a lot of extras. The 4x zoom is relatively fast and easy to use, and about right for this type of camera. I was surprised there was no optical zoom given the high megapixels, but I can live with cropping on the computer. The panorama mode is nifty but not that useful - it works quite well in creating a long image, which of course will cause distortion in most cases. To use this feature, you set the mode and click the shutter. The camera will prompt you to move it from left to right, and then it will generate the image (which is always impossible to see on the display owing to its shape.) Here I would have liked some ads’ features - there is just 'one size' for panorama shots - you must sweep all the way across or the image will fail. This creates many shots that will need to be messed with on the computer later, which is okay but annoying. I was also disappointed panorama doesn't work in an up and down orientation - you always have to sweep the camera in the same manner. You can, of course, hold it sideways to create a vertical panorama, but I really wanted some vertical shots taking advantage of a larger width. Still, panoramas of the Tour Eiffel allowed me to create some fun, unique shots of the full height of the structure. There are not many other features - just some rudimentary quality settings, face detection, etc. Some might want to move up to a camera with more features, but I actually appreciated this in a point and shoot camera.

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 Review: Battery

Here the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W530 could use some help. Perhaps I'm spoiled by my Apple products, but digital cameras have more or less remained stuck in 2002 concerning batteries. It's annoying to have a separate charger, and battery life isn't great. Three hours of shooting...granted, constant shooting...at St Denis drained it. Given how light and small it is, I'd fully support doubling the battery size to get twice the life. I'd also love for camera makers to start to move toward USB charging options.

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