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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T90

18 May, 2009, 3:30 pm IST | by Nikhil Singh | Point and Shoot

The DSC-T90 allows you to take shots up to 12.1 megapixels. It comes with only the most basic features you'd expect in an ultra compact, and no manual functionality whatsoever. I'm not talking about a manual mode or shutter/aperture priority here, I'm talking about something as basic as setting ISO sensitivity manually. The fact that every other ultra compact offers at least some form of manual mode, makes the fact that the T90 doesn't even have the ability to set the ISO settings according to what you require, shameful. Since it doesn't allow you that, you're always left at the Auto mode's mercy to decide what ISO settings to pick. More often than not, in indoor shots without flash, the camera seems to overshoot the ISO setting to up to 3200, making shots incredibly grainy and unusable.

All's not lost though, since the camera's image stabilization works pretty well, and managed to take averagely detailed shots at full (4x) zoom. The resultant image is below.

Even when not zoomed, detail levels in the camera's pretty average and color reproduction is accurate; so is the auto-white balance.

The camera's macro performance is pretty average, and it managed to focus on objects that were 3-inches close. Detail levels were fine here too.

The camera's biggest draw is its smile detection, which works quite well. It had no trouble in detecting faces, and clicked pictures as soon as the subject smiled.

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Tags: Sony , Cyber-shot

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