Sony DSC-W1 Top Reviews

High-end optics combine with everyday ease of use in the DSC-W1 Cyber-shot digital camera. The DSC-W1 features a 1/1.8-inch Super HAD CCD and a 3X optical zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, both come together to give you stunningly detailed 5.1 Megapixel (2592 x 1944 resolution) images. Other features include manual exposure control, 5 area multi-point auto focus and MPEG Movie VX video mode.

Even though it is packed with features, the DSC-W1 was designed to be incredibly easy to use. The huge 2.5-inch LCD monitor, live histogram display, 6 scene modes, and PictBridge compatibility all combine to make taking a picture and making a print simpler than ever before.

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Overview

• Imaging Device: 1/1.8-inch 5.1 Megapixel Super HAD CCD
  
• Recording Media: Memory Stick Media, Memory Stick PRO Media
  
• Lens Construction: 7 Elements in 5 Groups, 3 Aspheric Elements
  
• Zoom: 3X Optical
  
• Smart Zoom Feature: 0 - 4.0X (at VGA Resolution), 12X Total
  
• Digital Zoom: Precision, 0 - 2.0X Range, 6X Total
  
• Filter Diameter: 30mm, by required VAD-WA adaptor
  
• Focal Length: 7.9 - 23.7mm
  
• 35mm Equivalent: 38 - 114mm
  
• Aperture Range: f2.8 - f5.6 (W); f5.2 - f10 (T)
  
• Auto Focus: 5 Area Multi-Point AF, Center AF, 5-Step Manual
  
• Minimum Focus Distance: 19.7-inches (50cm)
  
• Macro Focus Distance: 3.9-inches (10cm)
  
• Shutter Speed:
  Auto: 1/8 - 1/1000 sec.
  Twilight: 2 - 1/1000 sec.
  Manual: 30 - 1/1000 sec.
  
• Exposure Compensation: +/- 2.0 EV, 1/3 EV Steps
  
  
  

Dpreview.com offers an excellent review on the Sony DSC-W1 and detailed pictures of the digital camera are professionally displayed. The review offers information on specifications, body and design, operations and controls, menus, software, lenses, comparisons and photo examples. Webmaster and Editor Phil Askey writes a majority of the reviews. Review was posted in April 2004.

ZD Net.com
Zdnet.com reviews provide in-depth looks at a wide range of technical products including the Sony DSC-W1. The site offers in-depth product specifications as well as expert reviews of the spotlighted products.

In addition to the proffesional reviews, zdnet.com provides a variety of outlooks on every product including reader reviews as well as a chance for you to share your own opinions on the product.

Imaging-resource.com
Imaging-resource offers a one page printout to take with you. They offer a technological overview, High Points, Comparison with other models and sample photos. Dave Etchells, the Publisher of the Imaging Resource does most of the digital camera reviews with the help of his "extended" family.

Two concepts are explained very well and reinforced throughout the book. No one will finish this book without a good grasp of resolution and memory cards. Johnson gets you comfortable with each term early and continues to develop both throughout the book. His handy glossary at the back of the book tackles computer terms as well as digital photography words.

The editing and special effects chapters were generically written so that you could easily relate to your own particular camera and software. Johnson makes sure you know how to show off your work with instruction on Displaying Pictures and Printing Pictures.

Much of the contact information and the What's Out There references are useful because they are so current. Yet, I'm afraid that information will find itself outdated rather quickly. Everyone knows the speed at which technology travels when a product is hot, and digital photography is definitely hot.

So get that digital camera out of the box. If you decide to let Dave Johnson and I just bought a Digital Camera, Now What?! be your guide, you will have plenty of courage to tackle the new technology of digital cameras.