Sony HX100V
08.02.12
Unshortened Review
Super-zoom cameras in a mini-DSLR framework are a segment that is seeing a lot of growth in just out times. Sony’s offering in this division is the HX100V which boasts of a 30x optical zoom lens. Its closest competitors the Nikon Coolpix P500 and the Canon Ixus 30IS from optical zoom of 36x and 35x respectively. But the HX100V makes up for the erosion of optical zoom with a plethora of features that may vie with me pages to pen down. Let’s cut the small talk and get fine hair to business.
Features and Specs
The Sony HX100V has a 1/2.3 Exmor R CMOS Sensor with 16.2MP crap megapixels resolution and apart from that it has 30x visual zoom lens. Sony is trying its square best to promote the HX100V as the ultimate super-zoom camera in the customer base with the smart-zoom feature. All things being equal it is better than precision digital zoom (120x on the HX100V) because it crops a allocation of a photo taken at the maximum image hugeness to obtain a zoomed image. When compared with run-of-the-mill digital zoom functions that momentarily enlarge the image data, smart zoom provides greater image quality by cropping the data. How in the world, test results show that these images are in the same way not appropriate for printing. These are the smart zoom points at which the camera works, 10MP: Approx. 37x, 5MP: Approx. 53x, VGA: Approx. 216x, 16:9(2MP): Approx. 72x.
Source: PC World India