A shiny chrome band runs around the edge of the camera, and a matte silver finish on the back completes the design. Controls are laid out well, if a bit tiny. Around the shutter release is a ring to operate the zoom mechanism during image capture and to zoom in and out of images during image playback. On the top right of the back of the camera is the mode dial. Since the surface of the camera is not flat below the dial it angles a bit , the mode dial is easier to access along its top edge.
Below the mode dial is the button that toggles the information on the display, the menu button, 5-way directional page, and the button to delete or change capture resolution. A button to access playback mode is along the top of the back of the camera, to the right of the optical viewfinder. Build quality is high. The camera feels solid and sturdy. The W70 demonstrated very good image quality. I was lucky enough to be able to take a stroll around the University of Notre Dame campus on a beautiful spring day with the camera.
It handled a wide variety of lighting conditions very well — sunlight filtering through leaves, shadowy entrances to various buildings, and long shots with a lot of blue sky. Color representation was also good. Reds were a bit oversaturated, in my opinion, but skin tones were not too ruddy.
The flash did a good job of illuminating things indoors. The claimed flash range of almost 14 feet was demonstrated well. For example, at wide angle, the camera used ISO for the shot. Zoom in a bit more and the camera will use something higher than ISO The problem with this is that the pictures get noticeably noisier.
To prevent this behavior, you can fix the ISO at a set value instead of Auto. Random indoor shot view medium image view large image. The speed of operation is very good on the W Start up time is easily under 2 seconds. Shutter lag is also very quick.
If you achieve a focus lock first by partially depressing the shutter , there is almost no shutter lag. For a full depress of the shutter, shutter lag is well under a second as the camera focuses, determines exposure, and captures the image. Cycle time is also very impressive, even with the flash enabled.
The flash was ready to go again within a second. A Few Concerns. My main concern is the size of the controls. Exposure, dynamic range and colour reproduction are all first class, focusing is accurate and apart from the close-range telephoto shots edge-to-edge sharpness is excellent. It is well made, looks good, is reasonably light and compact, performs competently and can take decent pictures. It has a couple of strong points, namely its excellent low-light performance and exceptional battery life, but it also has a couple of flaws, specifically image noise above ISO, and that unusual telephoto lens distortion.
A range of test shots are shown over the next few pages. Here, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it in order for you to gain an appreciation of the overall quality. In this ISO test shot, taken at a range of about one metre using the maximum telephoto zoom setting, you can clearly see the pincushion distortion.
The lines of chips on this circuit board should be straight and parallel, but instead the lines around the edges of the frame bend inwards towards the middle. This is caused by poor lens design, not something normally associated with the Carl Zeiss name.
The following pages consist of resized images so that you can evaluate the overall exposure. For those with a dial-up connection, please be patient while the pages download. Shooting thin dark branches against a bright sky is usually a problem, but the W70 has got the exposure just right, with enough dynamic range for both highlight and shadow detail. This percent crop from the top left of the previous image show no purple fringing and good edge sharpness.
The wide-angle end of the zoom range is equivalent to 38mm, not very wide but about average for a pocket compact. The W70 has a very good macro focusing range of just 2cm —-.
And yes, the white went down the side pocket. Two shots to me! This was taken indoors under a tricky combination of incandescent lighting and natural daylight, using auto white balance.
The W70 has coped well and got the colours pretty much perfect. I keep this game around in case the Grim Reaper comes to visit. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. It is because with the manual, both users and enthusiast will be able to get required information about a certain product. With this manual too, learning process upon the camera product is started. So, we can say that manual is the best reference when we want to understand a digital camera.
With this manual we hope that it can help you to understand this Sony camera better and easier. In this article, firstly we will talk about the specification first before hitting the manual.
And for now, we will talk about this camera Look. The size is about the size of a deck of cards. The weight of this type is only 5. That size makes it easily to slip this camera into your pocket or purse and still performs well indoors.
The colors on the screen are accurate, but it is not completely fluid with some minor lag time while the screen updates. In bright sunlight, it remains very visible. But you can choose optical viewfinder if you find difficulty in capturing image under direct sunlight. The color choices of this type are black and silver.
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