Sony Cybershot

Digital Cameras. There are a bunch of them out there - all competing for your hard earned money. What sets one above the other? Why did you pick the one you have?

I just purchased a Sony Cybershot DSC-T20. I did my due diligence and researched many products. Here are the reasons I chose this model...

• Sony reputation. I have owned Sony products before and have always been satisfied with performance and style of the products.


• Face Detection. If you take alot of portrait pics, this will interest you. The camera will identify up to 8 faces in the photo (highlighting them in the live view!) and automatically adjust focus, exposure, white balance & flash to favor the faces. This means that if the faces are not in the center of the exposure, the camera will set focal point to the face distance. Think about that for a second. Most digital cameras have square in the center of the viewer that serves as the focus area. Often you frame your pics so that the subject face(s) are not in the center of the frame. This feature handles those times perfectly.


• Large LCD screen (2.5 inch)


• Its compact - less than 1/2 inch thick.


• Better pics under low light conditions. Sony’s Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization counters camera shake and stabilize images so you can easily shoot with longer exposure times. Armed with high light sensitivity (up to ISO 3200), you can also shoot at higher shutter speeds without using the cameras’ flash and spoiling the mood of the pictures. Sony’s Clear RAW noise reduction technology will help reduce the picture noise common to low-light exposures.


• Response time. Sony’s new T-series cameras are powered by the Bionz processing engine, first used in Sony’s Alpha digital SLR camera system. Not only does this robust processing engine deliver the fast image processing speeds needed to produce color-rich, detailed pictures for true high-definition photo viewing, it also speeds up the cameras’ response times and extends battery life.


• 8.1 Mega pixels

I'll be posting pics from this camera in the coming weeks. Watch for this week's upcoming TGIF photo shoot.