White balance color adjustment with six options. Design The Sony DSC-W1 is compact, stylish, and ready to go anywhere, with a boxy body style similar to other rangefiner digital cameras on the market.
Camera Operation Operating the Sony W1 in any of its automatic modes is very straightforward, with only two additional controls when you enter Manual mode.
In Playback mode, this button lets you erase the currently displayed image. Spot metering reads the exposure from the very center of the frame identified by a cross hair target on the monitor. Spot metering is handy for backlit subjects, or any time the subject and background exhibit very high contrast. Multi-Metering mode reads the entire frame to determine exposure. White Balance : Adjusts the overall color balance of the image, to suit the light source.
ISO : Not available in Scene mode. Adjusts the camera's light sensitivity. Options are Auto, or , , and ISO equivalents. Quality : Sets compression between Standard and Fine.
Mode : Sets capture mode, Normal single , Burst, and Multi-burst. Sepia : Records an image in monochrome sepia tone. Saturation : Adjusts the overall color saturation with plus, normal and minus settings. Contrast : Alters the level of contrast in images with plus, normal and minus settings.
Sharpness : Controls the overall image sharpness and softness with plus, normal and minus settings. Playback Menu : Folder : Selects the folder for playing back images. Also removes the print mark. You can set the time interval and whether or not the sequence of images repeats. When an image is resized, the original image is left in place, and a new copy is made at the selected size.
Very handy. Digital Zoom : Switches between the 3. If on, the light automatically illuminates in dark shooting conditions. Auto Review : Immediately plays captured image onscreen for two seconds. Beep : Controls the camera's beep sounds, turning them on or off. A Shutter option enables only the shutter beep noise. Setup 2 : File Number : Chooses between Series continuing the shot number infinitely or Reset, which resets the frame number by folder. Clock Set : Sets the camera's internal clock and calendar.
USB cable. AV cable. Specifications See the specifications sheet here. Picky Details Cycle times, shutter lag, battery life, etc. Test Images See my test images and detailed analysis here. Color : Good color, accurate hue, appropriate saturation. Some white balance difficulty indoors though. Overall, the Sony DSC-W1 produced good color, with only slight color casts with each white balance setting.
Outdoors, it did particularly well, with natural-looking skin tones, and a flawless handling of the always-difficult blue flowers in the Outdoor Portrait test.
While they appear to be virtually the same camera internally, I felt that the W1 actually did a slightly better job with color rendition outdoors than did the P, although the differences were very slight. Indoors though, it had a little trouble with household incandescent lighting, leaving more of the warmth of the lighting in its final images than I personally prefer.
Exposure : Very good exposure accuracy. As was the case with the P that I reviewed immediately before it, the Sony DSC-W1 seemed more accurate than most cameras I test, as it required less exposure compensation adjustment under difficult lighting conditions than I've generally found to be the case. Like most consumer digicams, its default tone curve is somewhat contrasty, causing it to lose detail in strong highlights under harsh lighting, but I found its low-contrast adjustment to be much more effective than that on most cameras, doing a very good job of taming the extreme contrast of the Outdoor Portrait shot.
As you'd expect from its 5-megapixel sensor and sharp lens, the W1 performed well on the "laboratory" resolution test chart.
I found "strong detail" out to about 1, lines vertically and 1, lines horizontally. Some reviewers might rate the resolution as high as 1, lines, but I tend to be more conservative in my resolution ratings. This is all very good, but I found that the W1 lost subject detail in areas of subtle contrast, due to somewhat over-aggressive anti-noise processing. Image Noise: Very low noise, but somewhat heavy-handed noise-suppression. Overall, I was surprised and impressed by how "clean" the Sony DSC-W1's images were, as its noise levels were lower than I'd generally expect from a five-megapixel camera, let alone a compact model.
BUT, the low noise came at the cost of flattened subject detail in areas of subtle contrast. Very visible in Marti's hair and features, on the Outdoor Portrait test. There was also some odd behavior in areas where a bright, highly-saturated color abutted a dark area, almost a "glow" fuzzing out from the colored region. And no, it wasn't lens flare, nor was it a focusing issue. I give the W1 high marks for low noise levels, but wince at how much subject detail is swallowed up by its noise-suppression processing.
Closeups : A small macro area with good detail. Flash is blocked by the lens. Resolution was high, showing a lot of fine detail in the dollar bill, coins, and brooch though the coins and brooch are soft due to the close range and limited depth of field. As is often the case with digicams I test, all four corners of the frame are somewhat soft, an unfortunate limitation of digicam lenses in macro mode.
The W1's flash almost throttled down enough for the macro area, but was still a little bright, and was blocked by the lens in the lower portion of the frame. Plan on using external lighting for your closest macro shots. Night Shots : Excellent low-light performance with great color, exposure, and focusing at the darkest light levels.
The W1 does an excellent job controlling image noise here, as even at ISO , noise is only moderate. A great job overall. Quite impressive.
For reference, a light level of one foot-candle corresponds to typical city street lighting at night. The Sony DSC-W1's optical viewfinder was a little tight, showing about 82 percent frame accuracy at wide angle, and about 86 percent at telephoto.
The LCD monitor proved to be a little loose, showing just slightly more than what made it into the final frame. Still, frame accuracy was near percent. Given that I like LCD monitors to be as close to percent accuracy as possible, the W1's LCD monitor is pretty good in this regard, but I'd like to see a more accurate optical viewfinder. Optical Distortion : Average barrel distortion, but very low pincushion, low chromatic aberration. Optical distortion on the W1 was about average at the wide-angle end, where I found about 0.
The telephoto end did much better, showing only 0. The Zeiss lens quality showed in the P's images, which were sharper from corner to corner than those of most cameras. There was also relatively little chromatic aberration, as the color fringes around the res target elements, while a little broad, were pretty faint. This distortion is visible as a very slight colored fringe around the objects at the edges of the field of view on the resolution target.
Shutter Lag and Cycle Time : Very! On the down side, the DSC-W1 is a camera that "penalizes" you for pressing the shutter button too quickly after a previous shot.
If you mash down the shutter button immediately after capturing an image, the camera will just sit there until you let up on the shutter button and press it again. A number of cameras do this, but I consider it to be a pretty significant design flaw. Overall though, the DSC-W1 is one of the fastest cameras on the market, regardless of size or price range, with its cycle time performance being one significant area in which it pulls ahead of its sibling, the P Battery Life : Couldn't measure the power drain, but battery life should be quite good, based on the P's performance, and Sony's own battery-life numbers.
Because it uses a custom power connector, I couldn't perform my usual exacting measurements of the W1's power drain. Its sister camera, the DSC-P had excellent battery life though, and Sony's battery-life numbers call for a run time of minutes in capture mode with the LCD on, minutes with it off, and minutes in playback mode, all with the supplied set of NiMH AA cells.
These are excellent run times, particularly for a camera powered by two AA cells, but I still highly recommend purchasing another set or two of high-capacity NiMH batteries. See my battery shootout page for rankings of various batteries, based on actual performance measurements.
Conclusion Free Photo Lessons Simple pro lighting and use tips let you snap stunning photos. Functionally, the Sony DSC-W1 is nearly a dead ringer for the slightly more compact DSC-P, offering nearly the same functions in a differently-shaped and slightly larger body, with a larger 2. It competes with models like Canon's PowerShot S in the "subcompact" digicam category, and should be a strong player there, with its excellent mix of features, functions, small size, and image quality.
It provides more manual exposure control than most compact models permit, yet is easy to use in full-auto mode, and its six preprogrammed scene modes help with tricky subjects. Its photos show excellent color and sharpness, although it shares with its P sibling some white-balance weakness under household incandescent lighting, and likewise achieves its surprisingly low image noise levels at the expense of image detail in areas of subtle contrast.
It seems to have a very aggressive anti-noise system, which does indeed deliver low noise in flat-tinted areas, but which also tends to flatten-out fine subject detail in areas with low contrast, such as hair, grass, etc.
In my testing, the W1 did a very good job with dynamic range and highlight detail when I employed its optional low-contrast setting, a feature that I really like to see, given how common it is for digicams to lose the highlights when trying for "snappy" photos under harsh lighting.
The Sony DSC-W1 also has very good macro capability, and is unusually capable when shooting under low light conditions. Finally, while I couldn't test its power consumption directly, Sony's specs and my own anecdotal experience both speak of very good battery life. Add in a surprisingly fast shutter response, very fast shot to shot cycle times, and a relatively huge and very readable 2.
If you're looking for a great "take anywhere" camera with great versatility and excellent color and tonality, the Sony DSC-W1 should be an easy choice. A " Dave's Pick ," although I have to say that I'd be happier with it if its noise-suppression processing were a bit less aggressive. Related Links More Information on this camera from Megapixel. Follow Imaging Resource:. Drivers are the property and the responsibility of their respective manufacturers, and may also be available for free directly from manufacturers websites.
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