Paul Worthington is an interesting addition to my Blogging referencing. He is somewhat of guru for the imaging industry. His note below is a great summary of the Sony camera direction for the point-and-shootist who digs Sony branding.
Sony adds sweep pano to entry cameras, 3D
For its Cyber-shot still cameras, Sony added high-end features such as its sweep panorama mode to “continuously capture wide landscapes or tall buildings in one easy “press and sweep” motion,” Sony says. “Images are automatically stitched together to create one stunning panoramic photo.”
The DSC-W510 has a 4x optical zoom, 12-megapixel, sensor, and 2.7-inch LCD for $110. The W530 widens the lens to 26mm, and ups the sensor to 14 megapixels for about $130. The $160 W560 adds HD video and a 3-inch LCD. The W570, at $180, takes the lens to 25mm wide and a 5x zoom, and the sensor to 16 megapixels.
The T110 features a 3-inch touchscreen, and 25mm wide lens with 4x optical zoom, for $230.
The H70, at $230, packs a 10x optical zoom into a compact body, one that starts at 25mm wide.
Sony added Sweep Panorama to its entry level line — so what will set off the five cameras in the mid-range? 3D Still Image and 3D Sweep Panorama, that’s what — taking 3D images using only one lens and image sensor. The camera takes consecutive shots in different focus positions to calculate depth, and creates left-eye and right-eye images to produce a 3D effect.
The $220 DSC-WX9 has a 16-megapixel backside-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor, 5x lens that zooms out from a 25mm equivalent, 3-inch LCD, 1080i video capture, and backlight correction HDR and background defocus. The $280 WX10 zooms to 7x from 24mm, although the LCD is down to 2.8 inches.
The WX10’s high-speed linear auto focus provides quick and precise focusing similar to the speed of a DSLR camera, Sony claims.
The DSC-HX7V’s lens zooms 10x from a 25mm wide angle. The 16-megapixel camera has a 3-inch LCD, and built-in GPS and compass for geotagging images, for $300.
On the rugged camera front, there’s the DSC-TX10: waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, and freezeproof. It has a 4x lens, 16-megapixel sensor, and 3-inch touchscreen for $330.
The large-screen TX100V has a 3.5-inch touchscreen organic LED display as well as a 4x lens, 16MP sensor, and GPS and compass for geotagging images. It’s $380 — and Sony says it is the world’s first compact digital still camera to capture full HD 1920 by 1080 at 60p, which “provides the least distortion for playback on a high definition television.”
All five cameras also offer fast capture with up to 10fps at full 16.2-megapixel resolution, Sony says.
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