Sony Cybershot T700
[Editor's Note: The Sony Cybershot T500 is a great digital camera and here is a review of its more upscale sibling - the Sony Cybershot T700.]
The lightweight ultra-slim design with several beautiful colors to choose from: silver, gray, red, pink and gold lets you take this camera anywhere on the go. Make use of every unique feature in this camera to enhance your photo shooting experience such as the Smile Shutter Technology, Face Detection Technology, Intelligent Scene Recognition, In Camera Retouch and many more…
Face Detection, Smile Shutter and Anti-Blinking Technology
Capturing many faces and smiles in a picture but afraid of that blurry faces? Don’t worry. Face Detection Technology will do the job for you while all you need to do is juts point and shoot. With the automated Face Detection Technology, your camera can detects up to eight faces with controllable focus priority (adults or children) and also it controls flash, focus, exposure, and white balance to give you more accurate, natural skin tones with reduced red-eye.
Are you afraid to miss those great smiles? Just activate the Smile Shutter and it will captures every smile. When your camera detect smiles, it will automatically snap pictures. The Smile Shutter can also differentiate between adults and children so that you can choose which one will become the focus point or the subject priority. You can also select and adjust the degree of the Smile Detection Sensitivity.
Taking pictures also can be very irritating when you think you’ve captured a perfect picture and later you discover that one of your subjects blinked just as you pressed the shutter. The new Anti-blink function can help you to notify you when one of your camera object is blinking. When the anti blink is activated, the moment after you take a picture, a warning will be displayed if one of your camera object is blinking.
Snaps those bright, vivid, non-blurry pictures
Don’t worry that your image will results in a blurry picture because of the shaky hands while taking pictures or bad color because of the bad lighting. The combination of Optical SteadyShot image stabilization and High ISO sensitivity up to 3200 gives you a powerful Double Anti-blur Solution with minimizes blur and allow flash free shooting to preserve your picture’s mood and lets you to capture beautiful, bright, crisp and vivid pictures anywhere.
And also, with the Intelligent Scene Recognition, the Sony T700 can automatically detect eight different types of scenes: Backlight, Backlight Portrait, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Twilight using a tripod, portrait, macro, and landscape and then selects the most appropriate camera setting for you while taking pictures. No need for you to think which setting is appropriate, just point and shoot while the camera do all the settings needed.
Moreover, you can choose fourteen convenient photo modes to quickly adjust for specific shooting conditions: Auto, Program Auto, Easy Shooting, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Soft Snap, Twilight Portrait, Twilight, and scene selections such as Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Underwater, High Speed Shutter and the new Gourmet Mode. With this Gourmet Mode, you can capture those mouth-watering culinary creations with all the color and clarity of images you see in gourmet magazines.
Need a retouch or feeling in a high creativity mood?
Need to enhance your photos or add some fun effects on them? just try the editing-function in your camera such as: Trimming, Red Eye Correction, Soft Focus, Partial Color, Fisheye Lens, Cross Filter, Retro, Radial Blur, Unsharp Masking, Smile. Now, no need for you to know the photo editing skill with brushes and all that, just within a single button touch, the camera will do all the enhancement and effects for you.
More features…
Weights and Measurements
W x H x D: 3 3/43 x 2 3/83 x 21/323 (95.0mm x 58.4mm x 16.4mm) with approx. 4.8oz (135g)
Convenience
Burst Mode : Max 100 shots at approx.1.6 fps
Color Mode(s) : Normal / Vivid / Sepia / B&W
Date/Time Stamp : No/ No
Media/Battery Indicator : Yes/Yes
Memory Stick PRO Media Compatibility : Tested to support up to 16GB Memory Stick DUO PRO media capacity1; does not support Access Control security function.
Red-Eye Reduction : Auto / On / Off
Self Timer : Yes (10 seconds, 2 seconds, Off)
Still Image Mode(s) : Normal (JPEG) / Burst (JPEG) / Bracketing (JPEG) – AE(Plus / Minus 0.3EV / 0.7EV / 1.0EV)
White Balance : Auto / Daylight / Cloudy / Fluorescent 1 (White Fluorescent Lighting) / Fluorescent 2 (Natural White Fluorescent Lighting) / Fluorescent 3 (Day White Fluorescent Lighting) / Incandescent / Flash / Underwater White Balance Mode – Auto, Underwater 1, Underwater 2, Flash
Hardware
Docking Station : Yes, via optional HD cradle (CSS-HD2)
LCD : 3.53 Xtra Fine LCD 921k
Lens Construction : 12 elements in 10 groups(including 4 aspheric elements,1 prism)
Lens Type : Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar
Microphone/Speaker : Yes / Yes
Viewfinder : No
Power
Battery Capacity : 3.6V / 2.4wh(680mAh)
Battery Type : LITHIUM ION / InfoLITHIUM D type 3.6V
General
Imaging Device : 1/2.3 type(7.70mm) Super HAD CCD
Megapixel : 10.1 Megapixels
Recording Media : 4GB5 optional Memory Stick Duo Media, optional Memory Stick PRO Duo Media
Convenience Features
AF Illuminator Light : Auto / Off
In-Camera Editing : Trimming / Red Eye Correction / Soft Focus / Partial Color / Fisheye Lens / Cross
Filter / Retro / Radial Blur / Unsharp Masking / Smile
Movie Mode(s) : 640(Fine) (VX Fine, 640 x 480, Approx.30fps) / 640 (Standard)(VX Standard, 640 x 480, Approx.16.6fps) / 320 (QVGA, 320 x 240, Approx.8.3fps)
Multi-Pattern Measuring : Yes
PictBridge Compatible : Single / Select / Date / Event / Favorites / Folder
Power Save Mode : Yes (after approx. 3 min. of inactivity)
Real Imaging Processor Technology : BIONZ
Scene Mode(s) : Auto Adjustment / Easy Shooting / Program Auto / Movie / High Sensitivity / Twilight / Twilight Portrait / Soft Snap / Landscape / Beach / Snow / Fireworks / Hi-speed Shutter / Underwater / Gourmet / Auto Adjustment
Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization : Yes
Optics/Lens
35mm Equivalent : 35-140mm
Aperture Range : Auto(F3.5-F10) / Program Auto(F3.5-F10)
Digital Zoom : Smart Zoom / Precision Digital Zoom / Off
Exposure Compensation : Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
Face Detection : Detects up to 8 Faces – with Touch Priority / Auto Priority / Child Priority / Adult Priority
Filter Diameter : No
Focal Length : 6.18-24.7mm
Focus : 9 points / Center Weighted AF / Spot AF / Flexible Spot AF / Semi Manual (1.0m / 3.0m / 7.0m / unlimited distance)
ISO : Auto / 80 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200
Macro Mode : Auto Macro / Macro On / Close Focus Enabled
Optical Zoom : 4x
Shutter Speed : Auto(1/4 – 1/1,000) / Program Auto(13 – 1/1,000)
Total Zoom : Approximately 8x
Software
Operating System Compatibility : Microsoft 2000 Professional, XP Home and Professional; Macintosh OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.1-10.5)
Supplied Software : Windows: Picture Motion Browser Vers 3.0.02 + USB Driver
Operating Conditions
Flash Effective Range : ISO Auto: Approx.0.08-Approx.4.3m (Approx.0.262-Approx.14.12)(W) / Approx.0.5-Approx.3.4m (Approx.1.642-Approx.11.22)(T), ISO3200: up to Approx.8.6m (Approx.28.22)(W) / Approx.6.8m (Approx.22.32)(T)
Flash Mode(s) : Auto / Flash On / Slow Syncro / Flash Off
Inputs and Outputs
Accessory Terminal : Multi connector
Audio/Video Output(s) : Yes via Mutli-Use Connector
HD Output : Yes (1080i)
USB Port(s) : Yes – USB2.0 Hi-Speed
By: Chris Edward
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