Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700
Touch screen cameras certainly are nothing new at this point. Sony is renowned for making touch screen ultracompacts. Now it is Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700, a 10.1 megapixel digital camera that replaces Sony’s T300 premium touch-screen camera. Consumers looking for a stylish camera will find it modern and attractive.
The lens covers the equivalent of 35 to 140mm, for a total of 4x range. Photographic modes and features are relatively conventional, with the T700 providing standard range of auto, program, and scene modes.
The back of the camera is entirely devoted to a 3.5 inch LCD touch screen display. With a grand total of three buttons on top of the body, the user is dependent on it for all the other functions. A stylus is included to browse around the menu, this eliminates fingerprints on the screen.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700 is high in speed and performance, zooming is also fast and smooth.
A large drawback here is image quality. Though Sony is making improvements by degrees with some of the image quality issues T700’s pictures won’t satisfy a serious photographer. Especially maddening is the lens’s fringe issue. Even without looking for it, strong fringing is hard to miss.
Pros:
- Intelligent Scene Recognition technology
- Super SteadyShot system
- Dynamic Range Optimizer (or DRO) system
- Possibly the most stylish camera on the market
- Huge internal memory is easy to access with supplied software
- Auto focus speed among the best available from a point-and-shoot
- Auto options galore: face detection, smile detection, blink detection
- Touch screen idea is still neat after several generations
Cons:
- Menus are dense, confusing, and sometimes redundant
- Terrible fringing issues in boundary areas can ruin shots
- Erratic metering and white balance
- Noise beyond ISO 200 hasn’t improved much over older T cameras
- Average flash performance, battery life
- Premium price may limit appeal
- Grainy post-shot review images
Hands down, the T700 is certainly a good looking and solidly built small camera. If you’re not hoping for more than a camera for taking pictures of friends and family to post online or make regular-sized prints from, the T700’s image quality is generally very livable - that all depends on user expectations and preferences, though there’s no denying the presence of some objectively serious flaws. But you can’t get anything with more aesthetic appeal at the moment.
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