Noise is well managed — ISO images are close to excellent with very good resolution and lots of snap although very minor pattern noise is sometimes visible. ISO images are very good, but with a tiny bit less pop than ISO and marginally higher noise levels.
Results at ISO are a bit flat and detail is starting to soften due to higher noise levels. ISO images are seriously soft, colors are almost pastelish, and detail loss is evident. ISO images are useless. Shot-to-shot times are also very quick. The subject in the sample photo below is the fastest BMXer I have ever seen. I have tried repeatedly without success to get a good picture of him — static framing pre-focusing on a specific spot and waiting for the subject to move into the image frame and pre-focus were not good options because of his free-form riding style.
I had to track him from the time he started his run and try to anticipate the decisive moment and trip the shutter just before the action peaked. The W80 should be just another pretty face in the seven megapixel compact digicam crowd, but where it really counts — the ability to capture super images easily and consistently, the W80 delivers in spades.
Pros: Stylish, compact, fast, optical image stabilization, low noise up to ISO , 2. All content posted on TechnologyGuide is granted to TechnologyGuide with electronic publishing rights in perpetuity, as all content posted on this site becomes a part of the community. Check the media where the images to be imported are stored. If [LUN Setting] is set to [Single], only the images in the memory card will be imported when the memory card is inserted, while those in the internal memory will be imported when the card is not inserted.
Connect the camera to the computer by using the supplied USB cable. When you import images directly from the memory card, PlayMemories Home will start when you insert the memory card to the computer. One-point You can also open the importing screen from the main screen of PlayMemories Home. Select destination folder to which the images are saved. Its solid picture quality and fast speed make it a great choice for a small, reliable snapshot camera.
March 30, a. The Good Attractive new display; great performance and pictures. Small buttons can sometimes feel awkward. With a shiny new interface, fast performance, and great pictures, the DSC-W80 sits on the top of the budget snapshot heap. Shooting speed seconds Smaller bars indicate better performance.
Olympus FE 5. Take a close look at the construction site shot with the white concrete barrier in full sun. That's the kind of subject that typically gets blown out, but in the W80's shot, it holds onto quite a bit of detail. At the same time, the underbelly of the freeway and the column of rebar have quite a bit of shadow detail, too. That's the Bionz at work. Face Detection. While I usually don't find many occasions to shoot people pictures, I did rely on Sony's face detection technology to grab shots of a horde of visitors over the weekend.
It's amazing how quickly you get used to it, and how much you rely on it. Sony's version is quick, finding as many as eight human faces in the frame. It looks for a combination of eyes, nose, and mouth so only heads facing you are identifiable. No pets either. Available in Auto and Portrait modes, it controls more than focus, extending its reach to exposure control, white balance adjustment, and flash control.
That's more important than it may sound. Finding the faces to focus is a pretty clear benefit, but controlling the flash so it illuminates them both at that distance and for that subject is a big help, as is the white balance adjustment.
Even more so is adding that information to the exposure calculation. Think of all those brightly lit landscapes that don't expose the people close to the camera. Now your camera, detecting the faces, will expose for them rather than the blue sky behind them.
The Sony W80 does face detection so well, I really missed it when I shot a few portraits with a digital SLR that just couldn't understand that people were the important part of the shot. ISO Range. Of course, flash is holdover tech from the last century. In this century, you shoot with image stabilization. When that isn't enough, you crank up the sensor's gain control raise the ISO , which you do at the expense of adding a little noise to your image. Sony is to be applauded for including both options in its lineup.
The Sony W80 has only a 3x optical zoom that doubles to 6x with digital, so it doesn't really need image stabilization for long zoom in daylight; but for low light situations, it's indispensable. Super SteadyShot can allow you to hand-hold the camera at low ISO settings to get both good detail and good color. My low light shots in the Gallery include a stick shift and auto interior taken at several ISO settings. The thumbnails are remarkably consistent in color.
But if you study them you'll see that the detail starts to disappear as the ISO increases. Still, there are times when you have to crank up the ISO. The W80 will still deliver good color and you can smooth away much of the noise in post processing if it bothers you. That's my one disappointment with the W80's image quality, however. Sony tends to prefer to hang on to the color while letting the detail dissolve away. Again, let the full resolution gallery shots show you what I mean.
The Sony W80 held the highlight detail in the concrete barrier and shadow detail in the rebar column. In-camera retouching.
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