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Sony Cyber shot DSC-P52
Extremely easy to use, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P52 comes equipped with a 3.2-megapixel resolution, apart from some useful exposure modes and white balance settings.
Running on the NH-AA-DA rechargeable NiMH battery, the DSC-P52 weighs 280 g with the battery and memory card in place and has dimensions of 123.2 x 57.7 x 52 mm. The menu can be read in six different languages.
For better photography, you are provided with 5 scene modes; twilight, twilight portrait, landscape, snow, and beach. Flash options include, red-eye reduction, auto, forced on, forced off, and slow-syncro modes.
The ISO setting can either be automatic or you can manually adjust them between 100, 200 and 400.
Exposure compensation of DSC-P52 is +/-2.0 EV, 1/3 EV step.
White balance options comprise Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent and Incandescent.
The 1.6-inch LCD is accompanied by a true-zoom optical viewfinder for precise image capturing.
DSC-P52 provides 3-area multipoint autofocus which can prevent bad focusing.
Another impressive feature is the multi-burst mode in which you can continuously shoot 16 images. In macro mode, you can take close-up shots from a distance of 8 cm.
The disappointment lies in the zooming features. The Cyber shot DSC-P52 has a 2x optical zoom and 3.2x digital zoom for a combined 6.4x zoom.
For storage purposes, you are provided with a 16 MB Memory Stick. In addition, there is Memory Stick Pro media which has a maximum storage capability of 1 GB. This was among the earliest Sony cameras to be compliant with the Memory Stick Pro.
Using the MPEG Movie VX feature, you can capture 640x480 pixel resolution videos at 16.6fps. For emailing purposes shooting 160x112 resolution movie clips are facilitated at a rate of 8.3fps. Utilising the Memory Stick Pro media it is possible to shoot more movies of 20 minutes duration.
For transferring of images, you are provided with a USB cable.
A helpful function of DSC-P52 is the Slow Shutter Noise Reduction in which scenes are captured in two exposures. The second exposure minimises the noise from the first for a better final output.
The 3.2-megapixel sensor facilitating taking prints up to a maximum size of 11 x 14.
Start up time of DSC-P52 is just over a second and delivers good images in bright light but dim light shooting is disappointing. While the battery life is decent, the lens doesn’t deliver the desired results.
Despite producing reasonable image quality, the outdated zooming features of P-52 can’t be ignored.
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Only good for basic use and costly too
I purchased this camera some months ago and for a start wasn’t too dissatisfied with it. It gave good resolution pictures. But over time, I began to realize its faults. There were a lot of system errors. Shutter stopped opening or closing completely. Even the picture quality began to fade. I found the snaps taken in the night conditions to be especially bad. Zooming features too aren’t any better. Initially, I thought it was a good camera at a reasonable price. Now, months down the line, I not only feel it is expensive but also not really worth because even the basic features don’t perform as well.
User Rating : 6 /10  (
by :
sportrap on
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:04:45 GMT
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