Black and White view large image. Sepia view large image. The system is enabled in what the camera calls DRO Standard mode by default. DRO Standard view large image. Even more range expansion is possible, however, by selecting DRO Plus mode, which uses a combination of real-time processing adjustments and post-processing to further bring out shadows and make highlights pop. Although it does bring out a touch more detail in high-contrast scenes, in shooting with the DRO Plus option enabled, be prepared for some fairly serious color and saturation shifts when compared to the standard mode.
DRO Plus view large image. Tack a lag of a few seconds onto each shot for the W to process the image with DRO Plus selected, and it seems to me at least that the costs here start to outweigh the benefits in most cases. DRO Off view large image. Of course, DRO can also be disabled completely, which gives a slightly more neutral rendering altogether.
Under incandescent light, auto white balance on the W does a decent impression of a sepia shot. Auto White Balance, K incandescent light view large image.
This performance continues to place the latest Cyber-shot among the weaker contenders in its class where white balance performance is concerned.
On balance, poor white balance performance is a little limiting and frustrating enough to earn the W a negative mark in my book in this regard. Somewhat unusually, pincushioning at full telephoto is almost as pronounced, giving telephoto shots a noticeably puckered look. Wide-Angle view large image. Telephoto view large image. As I suggested in the last section, even when working on a tripod I could never consistently come up with the kinds of razor-sharp shots seen at wide-angle when using the W at the very end of the zoom range.
Step-by-step comparisons down the range suggests that this lens softens up in the last few positions of its travel, and stopping the aperture down has little impact on the overall sharpness. Ultimately, agonizing over slight sharpness loss of this kind is a technical consideration that borders on obsessive especially for a compact camera , though the obsessively technical may want to take note.
Finding the right balance in controlling noise has become a persistent issue for Sony compacts, but the company promised noticeable improvements in the aggressiveness of its noise reduction algorithm in the latest batch of Cyber-shots.
ISO 80 view large image. ISO view large image. Visible noise reduction still begins to soften up details almost immediately on the Cyber-shot, with an appreciable loss of very fine texture between the first two settings even. Still, comparing ISO crops from the W to those from a previous-generation Cyber-shot with the same 8. All in all, Sony deserves praise for listening to consumer concerns about this particularly weak area in previous Cyber-shots and making an active effort to improve it in the current generation.
In spite of all of the features it packs in, the Cyber-shot W surprised me in how cohesively it comes together. Performance qualms are all but nonexistent in this case, and red channel issues aside, you have to get down to the downright nitpicky to find much that will give casual shooters pause in the image quality department either.
The bigger question with the W is whether you can tolerate its gimmickry, which is admittedly a little forced at times and a little intrusive. Compared With. Related Deals.
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