Hey! You should know that Sony has released a newer version of this product: the Sony Cyber-shot WX10.
Sony Cyber-shot WX9
Editor's Review
Sony excels at sleek, slim, feature-packed ultracompacts, so the WX9 should deserves a look. It's built around Sony's latest 16.2-megapixel EXMOR R CMOS sensor, which enables speedy performance, solid low-light shooting, 1080i high-def video, 10 frames-per-second burst mode, and a range of effects that mimic advanced features like background de-focusing (for that aesthetically pleasing blur).
The WX9’s 5x lens is impressive: it has a bright f/2.6 aperture and an effective optical image stabilization system. The lens has a nice wide 25mm angle, but if that’s not enough for your group portraits, the sweep panorama modes are sure to fit the crowd. The sweep panorama mode simply requires one push of a button and a pan of the wrist; the camera uses its high-speed burst to capture and stitch all the images automatically. There is an interesting sweep multi-angle mode that takes 15 pictures across a panned scene and combines them into one file that can be viewed on the camera’s high-resolution 3-inch LCD screen in a “3D-like view” -- maybe a bit of a gimmick, but you can always ignore that mode.
Rounding out the spec sheet are a 3-inch, 920k-pixel LCD and manual controls. For $220, this is a stylish, feature-rich, and hopefully functional package.
Specifications
- 16.2 Megapixels
- Back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor
- 5x optical zoom
- 25mm wide-angle lens
- Optical image stabilization
- 3-inch LCD (921k pixels)
- 1080/60i HD video
- 10 fps burst mode
- Background defocus mode
- 3D sweep panoramas
- ISO up to 3200
- Face detection
- Captures to Memory Stick Duo/ Pro Duo/ Pro-HG Duo/ SD/SDHC/SDXC
- Lithium-ion battery
- Release Date: Mar 31, 2011
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Sony Cyber-shot WX9 Comments & Questions (write your own!)
> I am 2nd generation photo-pro. I used to carry a Speed-Graphflex/Press Camera & 220-film twin-lens reflex & 35mm single-lens etc. …
The easiest way to comment is on this new photo-technology is WOW!
I wish, I was selling cameras in our family’s old camera-shop today.
> I’ve only had this Sony WX9 camera a couple of weeks. It is “tiny” and it works GREAT. I have been trying to stump this camera’s brian. But, I’ve not come across a situation that “THE CAMERA” could not solve or fix by it self, if, allowed.
-HOWEVER- while trying my hardest,
I shot almost directly into a bright-sun & I was able to pick-up little round-spec of glare. (exactly as is expected without a filter.)
Also…regarding little specs on insects:
>Hand-held, inside at night with only an energy-saving, table-lamp 3 feet away…
I was able to see a mosquito land ~ I got up to the bug and the camera focused and exposed clean & true as it “Captured” a picture of that little translucent blood-sucker’s “FACE" = head two eyes & all body-parts, even the mosquito’s butt parts can be seen.
> Earlier that night, the camera also gave me a GREAT…Full-Moon raising over my neighbor’s house & trees across the street… I used a tripod for that... WOW…+ it is the camera is smaller than a pack of nasty-cigarettes… I’ve never seen my tripod look so empty before…
WELL, I haven’t tried it’s Video or 3-D very hard yet, AND, at this point I don’t really care... if nothing else works. … ( I was going to buy that Nikon with the projector built in…but, this was in stock at the local Walmart…so! ) I’m am still going to buy one of those new picture projectors.
Kind Regards,
Jack
