Sony Cyber-shot TX9 Digital
The company is making an attempt to raise the stakes by passing the large-camera look downward to a camera that fits in your purse or pocket. There's a new feature labeled Background Defocus that adds a bokeh-like appearance to your background allowing isolation your subject. Also this function is available in Sweep Panorama mode. Moreover, the latest Superior Auto mode "captures multiple shots to decrease image noise and stretch dynamic range. The WX5 automatically distinguish the proper scene, then quickly release the shutter and if necessary, blend as many as six shots to create photos with better quality than achievable with only a single shot."
Regardless of how you feel about 3D, there's certainly no stop to the landslide of products coming out. Therefore we have the Cyber-shot TX9 and Cybershot-WX5 that provide the means to capture 3D panorama images.
The Sony TX9 replaces the Sony TX7, which is hardly 6 months old. The touch-screen LCD, camera body, and lens are the same as the previous camera, but the illuminated backside Exmor R CMOS image sensor receives a bump up in resolution from 10 to 12 MP. The Cybershot WX5 replaces the 2009 WX1 and once more is constructed essentially identical to its predecessor, but using a higher-resolution sensor. on the other hand, included with the intensified megapixels are other important shooting
function differences.
For starters, there's all this 3D stuff. Adding to the Intelligent Panorama Sweep instituted on Sony's early Exmor R-based cameras, the new ones also employ a 3D Sweep Panorama. Push the shutter button, pan the camera horizontally or vertically, and the WX5 shoots left and right photos and subsequently stitches them into one. You then use HDMI attach the WX5 to your 3D HDTV, add glasses, and then enjoy. The end results are respectable, especially when you consider how simple it is to capture them and all on a single-lens camera as compared to a dual-lens camera similar to Fujifilm's Real 3D W1.
Hold on, The 3D fun is just beginning. Each camera has a Sweep Multi Angle feature that shoots a series of images at dissimilar angles and then blends them into a single image. Tilt the camera left or right to browse through the images, producing a lenticular lens result. The outcome resembles what can be done with any camera using Start 3D, but the resulting images can only be looked at on camera. And if you believe what was claimed by the demo Sony presented, it seems to be just a sales gimmick to promote 3D cameras in retail shops to people who do not even have a 3D HDTV.
There's also an abundance of non-3D shooting choices, The Exmor R models feature high-speed shooting
capacities and Sony uses them for special multi-shot functions to improve dynamic range and to decrease image noise. Here's the thing, the previous models it was
mandatory to switch to the special modes and, well, everyone did not know when to use what mode. And now Sony's Superior Auto mode or, as some people have named it, Double Secret Auto, which
intuitively knows when to use this multiple shot technology. It functions pretty much the same as Fujifilm's EXR Auto on their Super CCD EXR digital cameras, assisting you to benefit from the camera's abilities wile doing nothing more than clicking the shutter button.
Before I go, the cameras also have Soft Skin option and Background Defocus. The latter captures two images and combines them into one, while maintaining the subject in focus, and at the same time causing the background to be blurred simulating Bokeh. The former digitally irons out blemishes on identify faces. Oh, and each cameras shoots movies in AVCHD at 1,920x1,080 resolution at 60i.
The Sony TX9 and Cybershot WX5 were released in September and the typical internet price is around $37o and $240, respectively.
Also announced was the Sony DSC-T99 which displaces the TX1, but also discontinues the Exmor R image sensor being displaced by a 14-megapixel CCD monitor. Not unlike Nikon's S4000, and Panasonic's FP3 the
Sony T99 is the company's more reasonably priced touch-screen digital camera. The $250 price, however, is more costly than either of those cameras. It, too, was released in September.
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Red Sony Cyber-shot TX9 Digital 12.2 MP Camera - Front Angle
Black Sony Cyber-shot TX9 Digital 12.2 MP Camera - Front Angle
Black Sony Cyber-shot TX9 Digital 12.2 MP Camera - Back LCD
Black Sony Cyber-shot TX9 Digital 12.2 MP Camera - Top
The really big headline for the sony TX9 is the capacity to produce 3D panoramic images with the 3D Sweep Panorama feature function of the camera, and it can even create underwater Sweep Panoramas. As the TX7 also could, the Sony TX9 can shoot 1920 x 1080 resolution movies at 60i in AVCHD format.
