Macro The HX5V is at its sharpest in Macro, which it enters automatically, and can focus on subjects as close as 0. Hand-held Twilight mode This is a photo of part of our standard testing scene. The only light in the room is coming from the carousel. The top photo was taken with the Hand-held Twilight mode that rapidly fires off six shots and then compiles them into one photo in order to reduce blur and noise.
The bottom shot was under the same conditions but in Intelligent Auto. Both are at ISO 3, Overall the HHT mode turns out the better results significantly cutting back on noise and improving sharpness. Thought the carousel is in motion, the mode is meant for stationary subjects. The Anti Motion Blur mode works the same, but is better for indoor shots with subjects that might move slightly during the shot.
Don't count on it to capture the erratic movements of a pet or small child, though. Manual controls The Manual mode is limited to two aperture settings each at the wide and telephoto ends, f3. The Sony CyberShot DSC-HX5 handled chromatic aberrations well during the review, with some purple fringing present around the edges of objects in high-contrast situations, as shown in the examples below. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject in this case a compact flash card.
These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1. And here are some portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Forced Flash setting or the Red-Eye Correction option caused any red-eye. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 25 seconds at ISO DRO is Sony's solution for improving shadow and highlight detail in photos taken in contrasty light, significantly increasing the image's dynamic range.
The examples show the rather dramatic effect of turning this feature on. To test this, I took the same shot twice, once with the feature enabled, and once in either Program or Manual mode. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5 allows you to take panoramic images very easily, by 'sweeping' with the camera while keeping the shutter release depressed.
The camera does all the processing and stitching and now even successfully compensates for moving subjects. The main catch is that the resulting image is of fairly low resolution. Check out some examples below - note the absence of any "ghosting" effects around the moving people in the second shot.
The thumbnails below link to the full-sized versions, which have not been altered in any way. Download Original. Please note that this 16 second movie is Sony may be new to the travel-zoom game, but they've certainly made a bold entrance with the CyberShot DSC-HX5, which offers virtually all of the key features that several of its rivals collectively offer, wrapped-up in an easy-to-use package with an eminently sensible 10 megapixel sensor.
We're struggling to think of a first-generation product that gets so much right and so little wrong as the DSC-HX5. It may not have the bigger 14x zoom, high-resolution LCD screen or more megapixels that its key rivals offer, but it does combine an awful lot of well-chosen wish-list features that instantly propel it to the status of serious contender for the travel-zoom crown.
The 10 megapixel backlit sensor provides excellent results from ISO , with only the fastest settings of and suffering from too much noise and smearing of fine detail. Chromatic aberrations were well controlled and colours accurate, and the mm lens commendably didn't suffer from much distortion at either end of the zoom range. The Manual mode lets you set a shutter speed of up to 30 seconds for effective night-time shooting, and if you don't want to use a tripod, the Hand-held Twilight mode delivers great results.
Sony's ever popular Sweep Panorama mode now copes admirably with moving subjects, while the new Backlight Correction HDR feature dramatically increases the detail in the shadow and highlight areas. In addition to the excellent still images, the Sony GX5 is one of the few digital compacts to offer full i video recording, gaining the upper hand on its rivals. You can use the 10xzoom during recording, sound is stereo rather than mono, and the AVCHD format ensures that file sizes don't get out of control.
The addition of a fully Manual shooting mode is very welcome, although I missed the Aperture and Shutter Priority modes that several rivals offer, and only offering two possible apertures does somewhat limit what you can achieve.
Beginners shouldn't be scared off the HX5 either, as Sony's excellent hand-holding Intelligent Auto mode is as effective as the competition's, with an even more straight-forward Easy mode available for complete point-and-shoot novices. And we haven't even mentioned the frankly astonishing 10fps burst shooting mode, welcome support for Secure Digital as well as Sony's own format, and a price-tag that while not cheap is at least on a par with the other main contenders.
Like most of its peers the HX5 is designed more for practicality than for style, but it's still a good looking camera, and is available in black or silver. It has an all-metal body which is rather box-like, but which has a rounded grip moulded into the right-hand end making it very comfortable to hold.
It's quite small by long-zoom compact standards, measuring Read the full review ». Announced in January it features a 10x optical zoom with impressive wide-angle capabilities, Full HD video recording, very fast continuous shooting, a built-in GPS receiver which records your position, altitude, compass heading and local time onto images, and a 10 Megapixel CMOS sensor which claims great low light performance.
Sony's earlier Cyber-shot DSC-H20 may have also sported a 10x zoom, but it wasn't anywhere near as small, nor did it share the HX5's impressive array of additional features. Just remember to pack a pile of memory cards! Quality : Movie quality was excellent but sound recording quality is less than OK, thanks to the tiny onboard mics.
Stills quality: as good as you can expect with a compact. But the panorama feature is to die for. Why you would buy this camera : you want to shoot AVCHD or MPEG4 movies without the need to lug a camcorder; you want to enjoy a superb panorama camera; you want the burst feature.
Image Sensor : Metering : Multi-zone, centre-weighted; spot. Sensor Size : 11mm. Lens : f3. The graph display indicates a bright image when skewed to the right side, and a dark image when skewed to the left side. Page Flash Flash 1 Press Flash on the control button. Auto Flash automatically operates in dark locations or when there is backlight.
On Flash always operates. Slow Flash always operates. Synchro The shutter speed is slow in a dark place to clearly shoot the background that is out of flash light. Page Smile Shutter Smile Shutter When the camera detects a smile, the shutter is released automatically.
When the smile level exceeds the b point on the indicator, the camera records images automatically. Off Does not use the self-timer. When you press the shutter button, the self-timer lamp flashes and a beep sounds until the shutter operates. You can select normal single-image or burst shooting in [Burst Settings] page Burst Shoots in succession when you press and hold down the shutter button.
Viewing images taken with a different camera This camera creates a database file in a memory card and registers every shot image to it for later playback. Page Playback Zoom Playback zoom Plays back the enlarged image. The image is enlarged to twice the previous size, at the center of the image.
Turn the lever again to display an index screen with more images. Turn the lever yet again to view images with the Calendar while playing back in [Date View]. Page Delete Delete Allows you to select unwanted images for deletion. You can also delete images from the MENU button page Movie playback starts. Displaying the control panel Display the control panel, you can control slow movie playback and adjust the volume.
The Playback bar appears, you can check a playback position of a movie. The icon displayed may vary depending on image size and quality. Playback bar appears on the movie viewing Left Pan from right to left.
Up Pan from down to up. Down Pan from up to down. The larger the image size, the more detail will be reproduced when the image is printed on large- format paper. The smaller the image size, the more images can be recorded.
The higher the amount of data used per second average bit-rate , the smoother the playback image. If it contains a large number of pixels, the image becomes large, it takes up more memory, and the image is displayed in fine detail. Although you cannot see the differences on the screen of the camera, the fine detail and data processing time differ when the image is printed or displayed on a computer screen.
Refer to page for details. Burst Records up to 10 images in succession when you press and hold down the shutter button. Mid Shoots up to 5 images per second in succession. Low Shoots up to 2 images per second in succession. In the bracket shooting mode, you can record a series of 3 images with the setting changed. You can select the most suitable image afterwards. You can reduce image blurring in dark locations or moving subjects by increasing ISO sensitivity select a larger number.
Page 57 Hints for preventing blur Even though the camera is steady, the subject moves during the exposure and is captured blurred when the shutter button is pressed. Camera shake is reduced automatically, however, the function does not effectively reduce subject blur. Subject blur occurs frequently under low-light or slow shutter speed conditions.
Page White Balance White Balance Adjusts color tones according to the surrounding light conditions. Use this function if image color appears unnatural. Daylight Adjusts for outdoors conditions on a fine day, evening views, night scenes, neon signs, fireworks, etc. Page Menu Shooting To capture the basic white color in [One Push Set] mode 1 Frame a white object such as a piece of paper filling the screen under the same lighting conditions as you will shoot the subject.
Page Focus Focus You can change the focus method. Use the menu when it is difficult to get the proper focus in auto focus mode. Page Metering Mode Metering Mode Selects the metering mode that sets which part of the subject to measure to determine the exposure.
The camera determines a well-balanced exposure Multi-pattern metering. Page Scene Recognition Scene Recognition In Intelligent Auto Adjustment mode, the camera automatically detects shooting conditions, and then takes the shot. When motion is detected, the ISO sensitivity is increased according to the movement to reduce subject blur Motion Detection.
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