Sony Cybershot W80

[gxsaurav]

I bought a Sony Cybershot W80 digi cam today from Sony world for 15k on EMI, Total cost 15.5K.



I needed this for as point & shoot camera which even my mom can use, the good thing I liked in this is that once I have manually set the exposure, autofocus etc.....it's just point & shoot.

The digi cam's memory card which is a Memory Stick Pro duo similar to the one I use in my Sony Ericsson K750i.

Now, I use ACDSee 10 & Photoshop CS3 for all my digital image management & editing, but due to this digicam I switced to Adobe Lightroom which is a tad better cos even my family members & sisters can use Lightroom. Photoshop is over kill for them. Lightroom automatically copies the photos from memory card, makes a folder with today's date & copies them to the computer & deletes from the memory card. Colour correcting images, resizing them etc is also very easy in Lightroom.

Bundled with the camera were the usual stuff

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W80 camera
• NP-BG1 rechargeable lithium-ion battery
• Battery charger
• Wrist strap
• USB + A/V cable
• CD-ROM featuring Picture Motion Browser and drivers
• 1 GB Memory Stick Pro duo free

The charger is a seperate device, you have to take the battery out of the camera, put it in the device & then charge using a wall charger. It would have been better if Sony would have provided USB charging too. This is now the charger looks like..



The good thing I liked about this camera was that it can capture videos at 640X480 pixel at 30 FPS. That's near DVD quality videos, but it captures in MPEG Codec format due to which file size are huge. Capturing in MP4 would have been better.

The face detection system works flawless, & just like any K series phone from Sony having autofocus, in this camera to activate autofocus press the click button halfway to hear a familiar tone, which means it has focused automatically. For my usage, ISO 200 works flawlessly.

The menu system is good & the changes u make show up immediately on the LCD. I still have to buy a pouch for the camera.

Another good thing is that If i capture a movie, I can output it directly to a TV with the bundled Cable.

Here are some of the unedited pics taken from the cam. I decided to take the pics at 3 MP cos anything more then that is not required.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gxsaurav/2102775429/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gxsaurav/2102775433/

Now, I m not a review writer & I still have to play with the cam, so you can read a better review here.

More to come....

[azzu]

Congrats on ur New buy
looks like a Gr8 Cam also nice Simple Review

[dOm1naTOr]

wow, i was misleaded with the thread name.
I was shocked to see a Cybershot Walkman.

[anurag_online]

Well I hve Canon S5IS..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anuragbhateja

Have a look

And yes it show 7.2 MP but this matter only if the sensor is according to that. If the image sensor is small then there is no use of 7 MP lens.

My cam is 8 MP with effective 8MP!!! also it has 12x optical zoom. Th cam relly rocks in quality it gives. The super fine quality of image can be pinted on A3 size wih best quality easily. Also it has many modes for both amatures and pros.

[azzu]

^^ Anurag bhai plz post a Detailed Review

[gxsaurav]

On the advice of anurag, I have decided to keep the settings at auto right now & will play with the exposure & AF settings one by one...

Oh! & I m back to ACDSee, ditched Lightroom. All my sister has to do is to connect the camera & copy files.

I also checked the TV out of the Camera, well...Videos play gorgeous on my LG Flatron TV (4 years old model)

[iMav]

which is the cam u used to take the pic of the cam thats a sexy cam too

btw i got the Sony t200 for 15k without bill it rox my uncle took it said u get another 1

[arunks]

gx_saurav

u must have purchased Sony DSC T200

this was available at 19990rs. 2months back and now it is available in 14990

so this is better to purchase in 15000 rather than w80.
nways w80 is very decent digi cam...
congrats on purchasing it

[x3060]

how is sony t200 mate ? did you fiddle with it . how are the pictures . . post a review please .

[iMav]

i fiddled with it boy i damn fiddled with it for 3 days (i was banned the whole time so the review was shelved)

The touch screen is simply spectacular 3.5" i mean damn that screen is so cool u jus love clicking with it

The video shooting is mind blowing i took 20 min vdos and saw them on a tv the audio was very clear from a digi cam it is better than expectations atleast IMHO and the video well on the 29" it was a treat to watch

The fotographs during the day - oh man boy have no words to describe them full hd 1080p the pix are gorgeous

i uploaded a very few of them in full size on devainart:

http://mav3.deviantart.com/gallery/ - the 3 pix u see are the cam's result me and my brother went berserk and took a lot of pix and there are pix which are more beautiful than these

during the day this cam was nothing short of spectacular

but the night pix were a lil disappointing werent so clear not bad but didnt come out as beautiful

The zoom OMG the zoom i took nudes in Goa from a distance where the subject wont even realize im clicking them and damn the pics were crystal

The software:

i just loved it

There is a music while slideshow option u have 4 pre-loaded tunes which play while watching a slideshow on the cam - i mean how cool is that it just makes the slideshow viewing on a 3.5" a really good experience

and guess what u can load ur own tunes to be played

image editing basic image editing features like rotating; resizing; red eye on the cam itself and u can save the re-sized image in hd or vga upto u which again is something wow

ok what else was there ....

ya again the software - face recognition it will detect a face and focus on it u even have the option of manually clicking on a part which is a face so the cam focuses on it; it also has a smile recog thingy but i couldnt get it to work properly so cant say now

The cam as is looks very sexy the black 1 is too sexy man though i liked the maroon 1 in pics but wasnt available

Theres a lot more in the software which iv forgotten like u have cliparts which allow u to fiddle with the image which was fun u had footballs; hearts; clouds all sorts of stuff

and yeah this reminds me there are 15 pre-defined frames for the images which is seriously 1 cool feature add frames to ur image within the cam all touch

now the bad:

other than the night mode which i didnt find so upto the mark (after tweaking with the modes too) the problem is that the camera is very thin and flash bulb is positioned at the top left of the cam so while holding the cam to take pix is a lil un-comfortable as its a weird finger position u need to take much like u need to hold the cam with 2 fingers of ur left land thumb down and middle or pointer on top else chances of ur fingers covering part of the lens are more (iv screwed some good pix like that but in such cases the auto-resize feature is handy)

damn i just posted a full review of a device i used 3 weks ago and i still remmber every bit of those 3 days so u can well imagine what the device is like

for 15k without bill theres no cam that match it

Sony Page for T200

PS: im not so excited about technological gadgets generally and am known for being very critical but this baby just made me go bonkers

[x3060]

. . so its a good one . . i will buy a cam sometime later in next year . just for point click . but its sad that you gave it away . . snatch it from your uncle mate

[x3060]

. . so its a good one . . i will buy a cam sometime later in next year . just for point click . but its sad that you gave it away . . snatch it from your uncle mate

[gxsaurav]

which is the cam u used to take the pic of the cam thats a sexy cam too

That's my "personal Camera", K750i

this was available at 19990rs. 2months back and now it is available in 14990

so this is better to purchase in 15000 rather than w80.
nways w80 is very decent digi cam...
congrats on purchasing it

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr why does all the advice is coming after I have purchased the cam. Anyway, T200 was 24k so had to skip it.

I tried the videos, uploading one video i made of my doggie today, I m converting videos to DivX cos that's the best for archiving at 1 mbps bitrate. Quicktime H.264 is good but it takes lots of time to encode in H.264

http://cid-eccd256d4687f1cc.skydrive...les/Munmun.mp4

Just took some more pics of the day light, that's my garden,...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gxsaurav/2105247412/

The zoom OMG the zoom i took nudes in Goa from a distance where the subject wont even realize im clicking them and damn the pics were crystal

Nooooooooooooooo that's the only reason to buy this cam....iMav where were u 2 days ago..

(P.S - Send me those pics ASAP )

There is a music while slideshow option u have 4 pre-loaded tunes which play while watching a slideshow on the cam - i mean how cool is that it just makes the slideshow viewing on a 3.5" a really good experience

and guess what u can load ur own tunes to be played

image editing basic image editing features like rotating; resizing; red eye on the cam itself and u can save the re-sized image in hd or vga upto u which again is something wow

All these are there in W80 too.

Theres a lot more in the software which iv forgotten like u have cliparts which allow u to fiddle with the image which was fun u had footballs; hearts; clouds all sorts of stuff

and yeah this reminds me there are 15 pre-defined frames for the images which is seriously 1 cool feature add frames to ur image within the cam all touch

nice....

I m planning to go out today, will take pics of outside places...then have to study for SNAP too...c ya

[j1n M@tt]

Is this better than Canon Powershot A710s??

[Batistabomb]

i always prefer my Canon

[gxsaurav]

Damn...now I m feeling bad for my purchase, Canon has 6X optical zoom...

but canon is also big, & not that good of a point & shoot cam like cybershot.

[Batistabomb]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

Damn...now I m feeling bad for my purchase, Canon has 6X optical zoom...

but canon is also big, & not that good of a point & shoot cam like cybershot.

i think canon is always guru in cam world, as how apple in i-pod's,no need to worry already you purchased cybershot, what we can do now

[gxsaurav]

no need to worry already you purchased cybershot, what we can do now

I can still use Photoshop to enhance the Pics

[Batistabomb]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

I can still use Photoshop to enhance the Pics

great, which version are you using

[Ankur Gupta]

I also bought the W80...
I also got it for 15k...
Detailed review coming up in a few days

[iMav]

1 thing i liked about the t200 is that it records vdos in mpg which a hell lot better than my previous nikon's mov; mpgs plays on most comps and easy to convert

[Ankur Gupta]

^^Its not specific to T200...Its what all Sony Digicams do...
I think Canon also records in mpg...

[gxsaurav]

^^^ ya, & that is bad. Direct DivX recording would have been better

[Ankur Gupta]

Too much to expect from a digicam processor...
BTW just wondering if W80 Bionz processor is capable of that coz its used in SLR cams so must be powerful.

[gxsaurav]

Who knows, I uploaded some more pics of today on my flickr account. Have a look

Here is a pic of my K750i running Mac OS X

[x3060]

me too using 750 . . the thing is the joy stick is becoming sad stick

[go4saket]

Dont want to depress you but I guess you should have gone for W200 without bill in arounf 12.5K. Its a 12 MP camera and the results just cant be compared...

[nix]

hey gx, on the camera its written full 1080p.. can you tell me what that means...? you can take HD quality pics?

[Ganeshkumar]

Close Competition in this segment r betweeen ....

Sony T200
Sony W80
& Canon A710s!!

Is there any other very good model in this same busget of 14K-16K???

Any1 used all three???


So frnds wat came can i go for wat reason??
Pls let me know....

I am very much intrested towards.. T200 bcoz of its high defn video...

@iMAv & gx Saurav: Nice review...

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by Ganeshkumar

Close Competition in this segment r betweeen ....

Sony T200
Sony W80
& Canon A710s!!

Is there any other very good model in this same busget of 14K-16K???

Any1 used all three???


So frnds wat came can i go for wat reason??
Pls let me know....

I am very much intrested towards.. T200 bcoz of its high defn video...

@iMAv & gx Saurav: Nice review...

Depends on your budget....W80 is good but if you can pay for T200 , do so.