Sony CyberShot W290

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Sony CyberShot W290

Nice colors light weight and simple design. And while today's most advanced photographic technology, which provides recordings, which lie close to the professionals. These are some of the benefits that come with when they choose Sony's popular Cyber-shot W-Series, which since its inception has accused consumers who want to record high quality images without having to drag a heavy bag with the photo.

With the purchase of all the new cameras you will get Picture Motion Browser 4.0, a program for management, viewing and sorting of images and video on your computer's hard drive.

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Compact digital Sony Cyber-shot W290
The new Sony Cyber-shot W290 is the high range of W's compact with a 12.1 megapixel sensor with a zoom wide angle 5x optical starting at 28mm. The objective is protected by an Optical Image Stabilizer Optical Steady Shot,in which the method has high sensitivity to 3200 ISO. It offers a beautiful screen Clear Photo LCD More than 3 inches.

Function for the Cyber-shot W290
The Cyber-shot W290 offers assistance functions such as detecting faces and smile detection that allows for the automatic recording, and an Auto mode that identifies the user of any adjustment or pre scene. Finally, the Sony Cyber-shot W290 offers the 720p HD video recording.


Key Features of the Sony Cyber-shot W290

• 12 megapixel sensor
• 5x zoom wide angle 28mm
• 3-inch screen
• Optical stabilizer of Optical SteadyShot image &S217
• High Sensitivity mode ISO 3200
• Face Detection, Smile Detection, Auto Mode
• 720p HD video recording

Design and control :

W290 has a strong aluminium body.Cybershot W290 and W270 are more efficient and easy to use. Available in a range of attractive colors,available in black, blue or silver.The Cyber-shot W series focuses on a superb image quality and on smarts.New cases is flexible designed to protect your device from scratches and dust.It weighs a substantial 164g and measurement the 97.6 x 56.6 x 22.6mm in size.

zoom switch control is not comfortable relatively large mode dial and a small D-pad.Thicker or large fingers people can find some trouble to operate its control as true modern ultra-compact standards.

The standard shooting mode with Auto, which provides optical image stabilization, face detection, red-eye correction and auto white balance.YOu will find some good option in main menu, such as a range of image sizes, face detection sensitivity, continuous shooting mode.The W290 has ten Scene mode.The W290 has built-in flash which is good.

With its wide-angle 28 mm with a 5x optical zoom, the Carl Zeiss lens increases the possibilities of shooting. The powerful BIONZ processor ensures images with a perfect definition of 12.1 million pixels and an excellent response time to ignition, with the outbreak or two shots.

This camera's LCD measures 3.0 inches diagonally, and it's easy to see, even in bright sunlight. The DSC-W290 even has an underwater housing unit available as an additional accessory, the MPK-WE marine pack, which I also had a chance to review. All in all the DSC-W290 is a great point and shoot camera.

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Large Screen
The large high resolution screen (3.0 inches 230 400 points on the W290 ) allows viewing and ultra net performance of your photos and your HD video even with condition high brightness. Intelligent Auto mode makes use of the device by providing the optimization settings to best adapt to each type of scene.You can shoot in 1280 x 720 resolution at 30fps


HD video mode
Combined with a High Sensitivity (ISO 3200), the stabilizer optical SteadyShot reduces the effects of oscillation of the device especially at dusk or in the interior scenes with low brightness. The detection of faces and smiles facilitates achievement of portraits and group photos more natural and spontaneous. The video mode HD 720p allows you to make movies in HD you can enjoy on your HDTV


Picture Motion Browser Software
All new Cybershot models come with the Picture Motion Browser software 4.02. In its latest version the image management software from Sony allows you to sort and browse through the photos and videos stored on the hard drive of your PC, as well as search for content. A wide range of optional accessories also allows you to exploit the potential of your Cyber-shot.

Image Quality

Image quality is much better due to the Carl Zeiss lens, which provides best detail resolution with better sharpness.Image stabilizer is good exposure and focusing are both considerably precise. For the the minimum ISO setting W290 has problem with image noise.You can use maximum 3200 ISO with good color .

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Conclusion :

Improved recognition of faces and smiles . Face Detection and Smile Shutter make it easy to focus on faces in the picture and taking pictures just at the moment the person in the picture smiles. The ease of use is further enhanced with the Intelligent Auto Mode which assesses the overall situation and therefore may engage in precisely the special program which optimizes the picture best. Movies recorded with HD 720p standard so you will get video clips with stereo sound that is razor sharp at any HD TV.Water proof ability they claim upto 40 meter which looks quite interesting.

Pros
Image quality good
Easy to operate
Large Display and bright
Waterproof
Dust proof


Cons
Shutter lag
Design is basic
small keys