Sony Cybershot DSCW120 P 7 2MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom
The 7.2-Megapixel Cyber-shot(R) W120 features innovative Smile Shutter technology, which photographs smiles as they happen. A Carl Zeiss 4x optical zoom lens provides high quality close-ups, while Sony’s Double Anti-Blur solution gives you crisp, clear images. The advanced Sony Super HAD(TM) (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design allows more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise. Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, a 9-point auto focus measures the focus at 9 precision points instead of 5 giving you greater creative freedom to compose your image. The large, bright 2.5″ TFT LCD display makes it easy to compose shots, check results, and read menus in sharp natural color, even in bright sunlight. Face Detection technology automatically controls focus, exposure, color, and flash to help reveal faces in shadows, make skin tones look more natural, reduce red-eye, and eliminate harsh facial glare, so your photos bring out every expression on every face in every shot. Super SteadyShot(R) Image Stabilization compensates for shaky hands and minimizes blur with optical sensors that detect camera movement and send correcting signals to a stabilization lens. For great stills and movies, and simple use, the Sony DSC-W120 is a great, all-around camera. Shutter Speed – Auto (1/4 – 1/1,600) / Program Auto (1 – 1/1,600) Flash Modes – Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, and Slow Synch Movie Modes – MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640×480 at 30fps), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640×480 at 16fps), Presentation (320 x 240 at 8fps) Scene Modes – Auto, Easy Shooting, Program Auto, Movie, High Sensitivity, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, and Smile Shutter Operating System – Microsoft 2000 Professional, Me, XP Home and Professional, Macintosh OS 9.1, 9.2, OS X (10.0-10.4)
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Love It
While travelling at Salt Lake City, I was compelled to buy a camera. The surroundings demanded me to take them home, well at least as pictures. I was looking out for Digital camera for some time as our old Fuji 4100 was a bit bulky to carry on a business trip. I didn’t want to spend too much money on the camera. I didn’t want a SLR, that was too much for me both in terms of money, involvement and care. I just wanted to snap shots and I could get good pictures that is pretty much all I needed.
Of course, I started with Consumer reports. I didn’t want the tiniest ones; these introduce quite a bit of shake during the shots. The compact ones listed the DSC-W170 as a best buy. The W300 was what I ideally wanted, but about $300 wasn’t what I wanted to spend. At SLC, I hopped around Walmarts, Bestbuys, Targets but couldn’t find any of the DSC-Ws. These take wide angle shots, good for landscape pictures. I guess this model range is going out and will probably be replaced by a newer range. Hence, it was a tough search.
Finally, an Office Depot had the W120 and W150. I settled for the W120. The camera itself is about 3.5″ x 2.25″, which makes it easier to drop it into the shirt pocket. It has a built in flash and a view finder. Now a view finder is very important as in bright light, the LCD panel gets washed out and you can’t see well what you want to snap. It also has a 4x Optical zoom. Consumer reports says you should have at least 3x Optical zoom. And it produces 7.2 Megapixels photos. Yes, it is not 15 MP, but 7.2 is good enough for 10×8 prints; by the way I never print photos now-a-days. We only view it on the screen. It also has a smile shutter, that I haven’t tried. There are other loads of features – you can connect the camera to a HD TV and the camera somehow manages to show a great picture on the big screen. Consumer Reports said that worked well; I haven’t tried that. See, I just need a functional good camera to snap the moment and get decent pictures. You have many modes preset such as portrait, twilight (this is neat), soft focus (only subject is sharp, rest is blurred), self timer, 2 (or more) second delay so that it eliminates the shake introduced by pressing the button.
The battery is meant for the camera i.e., you can’t use AA/AAA batteries. The small size of the battery makes the whole camera small. The charger is neat, you can plug the charger right into the outlet without long wires hanging. After the charging, you can snap the charger’s prongs? back into the casing, making it easier to carry along on a trip. The Optical stabilization (Super Steady Shot, as Sony calls it) should be good, as I haven’t noticed any shake in the pictures I took, given the size of the camera.
You can view back the pictures as a slide show on the LCD panel and also play some music, if that is what you want. So far I have taken over 200 pictures and am quite happy with the camera. I read that there are some software bugs that prop up (some macro error), but haven’t seen that yet. Hopefully, I don’t ever.
You can connect the camera to your computer’s USB drive and transfer pictures directly without any special software, thought the camera comes with Sony’s own picture organizer and viewer. The camera requires the Memory Pro stick card, which is slightly more expensive than your typical SD cards. If you connect to the computer with the secondary memory on, you won’t see the built-in memory card. You have to remove the memory stick pro to access the internal memory.
On the rush to go to the mountains, I had to pick up a 2 GB MSP for about twenty two bucks, but if you plan ahead you can find a 4GB for a little less on the Internet. The built in memory is good enough for about 15 pictures at lower resolution. The menu is extensive and hence not exactly simple; given the vast amount of features, it is hard to make it a simpler one, I guess.
Overall for about $130 I paid for the camera ($22 for the additional memory), I am very satisfied with it. You can view the pictures I took at Picasa – http://picasaweb.google.com/ashwini.aragam/SaltLakeCityFeb200902?feat=directlink
4 Stars Nice results and good praise, except…
A holiday gift for my niece. She loves it a takes great shots. Crisp and everything and more than you’d expect from a $100 camera. We all noted that if you weren’t really still there might be a blur. That’s the shooters fault – but kids are hard to keep still. Good value and I think/hope it will give her three years of use till she gets to high school. 4 Star
4 Stars For $109 dollars
Pixel is dead on display upon arrival. Great little camera for cheap, so not a big deal if I lose or break it. Sony is still stupid for using proprietary memory cards
1 Star Awful Camera, Lousy Pictures
I bought this camera to replace my old worn-out Canon PowerShot A70 3.2MP camera thinking the pictures would be far superior. Wrong. The worst feature is the flash — on most settings you cannot override and make the auto flash work if there is any light in the room… so all my indoor photos are way too dark. I have had the camera a year and I hate it. I do the bulletin board for a church group and all my photos of people are awful; they used to really be good with the old Canon. The Sony Cybershot does take good pictures outside in bright light and the flash works well outside at night, but daytime indoor shots are the pits.
1 Star I do not like it.
I had this camera Sony DSCW 120 for about 4 months; and until now I do not know why sony has this big name. before it, I had a fuji camera and canon. the Fuji is 2MP and to me, it give much better photos that this 7MP sony. I was surprised with the bad quality of the images of sony DSCW 120 when you view them on the computer. My old Fuji camera (I think 7 years old) makes much better images. Then only good images from Sony are those when you have plenty of light and sun and in this case any camera gives you very good image. When you take pictures in-door with flash then the quality sinks. So, I rate sony one star out of five. I rate canon five stars. I am planning to buy a Canon camera.
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