sony camera review
November 4, 2010A blogger’s best friend is really her laptop, her fingers, AND a camera.
I often take pictures and capture moments so I find cameras a necessity. A MUST! Hence, I am super picky about cameras.
I wouldn’t just do any camera review, but I just HAVE to tell you guys about the Sony Cybershot DSC-TX9 camera!
It comes in 3 colours; black, pink and gold.
I was given the pink one, but I think gold is nice too 🙂
It followed me around to work today and I was so jakun taking pictures of everything,
The colour is very sharp, don’t you think??
This is just me trying to see if this camera can make me look nice. Sigh…like my mom always says, “Dah Tuhan bagi muka macam tu, nak buat macam mana?” whenever I complain to her that she always makes me so uggers.
Ignore my face, but look at how vivid the colours are? I was quite amazed.
Ok, I had to give the camera a rest as I continued working.
That night, I had a sleepover at Toots. She’s traveling so as usual, our tradition: we’ll have a sleepover the night before to soak up all the I’ll-miss-you-ness. We’re romantic like that.
I drove to her house looking like this.
In my super comfortable kaftan, I just brought my handbag, laptop and some documents.
To my surprise, this was how SHE looked like.
Matching kaftans!!! Man, we’re so meant to be.
I was excited to test out the camera properly with her, so we went through the features together. Seriously right…I love this camera! So many features and modes!!
You can choose which colour background you want. I’m not a pink kind of girl, but since we were both all in pink and the camera I got was pink, I thought might as well go all out and choose pink as the colour of the screen.
It’s touch screen, so all we have to do is tap! I don’t like fingerprint marks on screens, so I like this camera because you can just tap with your nails so you won’t have oily fingerprints on your beautiful screen. Oh, and because it’s touch screen, there are no buttons at the side which allows the screen to take up the whole camera.
Ok so we tested the features right…
There’s the normal Auto mode which admittedly is my most-used mode -____-
Then there’s the Scene Selection mode; dark, bright, food, pets, snow, beach, etc.
Taken with the Gourmet mode.
There’s also this Soft Skin mode that Toots and I immediately LOVED.
Normal mode
Soft Skin mode.
Any blemish on your face is gone and you’ll seen like you have flawless-like skin!!
We both went “Omg, Soft Skin me!!!” and shoved the camera to the other person as we smile and pose.
Toots with Soft Skin mode.
Ignore her hair. We both had a long day la ok?!
Soft Skin with Flash
Ok I look crappy after a long day (all shiny some more!) but look at Toots! She had a big pimple on her forehead and using the Soft Skin mode, it disappeared!!!! I swear!!
Can you imagine how much fun girls will have with this camera?! Deceiving, man!
Then I tried this Anti Motion Blur mode.
I made a big wave with my hands and it captured a perfect still picture. Wasn’t blurry. Ok, well, that’s probably because I was moving my hand slowly.
So I tested it further and moved my arms faster.
Not bad right? On other cameras, fast movements cannot be captured! It’ll just be a big mesh of colours.
Then, I tried to move furiously!
And it captured this!
This one, I was moving really really fast. Almost trying to shake myself off. And it still managed to keep a relatively still picture since you can still recognize my face and fingers. You can probably see that brown patch on my umm…chest. That was where my hands were a nano-second before.
There’s also a Hi- Speed Shutter mode where you can take a moving picture and make it seem like a still one. Good for live sports games if you’re into that!
The level of amazement increased when I found this Background Defocus mode.
It looks so professional!!!
I just love this blurry effect to create a dreamy-like photo and pull more focus towards a wanted point. No more need for Photoshop if you want to blur background. Just one click with this camera.
And my most jakun picture of all!
THE iSweep PANORAMA MODE!!
You know those really wide photos that capture a huge area? Well I thought you can only achieve that with SLRs! But with this Sony camera, you can get that effect too.
You just click and move the camera slowly like making a semi circle. It will process and TA-DA!!
Really good when you have a huge group of people to take, or at events where you want to take a wider angle to show more in the photo!
And if you’re really artsy fartsy, you can combine all these features together into a photo that really does not need any more editing. It’s like having a mini touch screen no-fuss SLR!
The TX9 is RM 1,499.
For more info log on to www.sony.com.my/cybershot
nak komen dalam BM boleh?haha
PD,saya sangat2 kagum dgn awak sbb awak sangat urban tapi masih suka pakai baju kelawar!sangat cool…(apa ek bahasa melayu bagi cool?=p )
sapa yg bagi kamera itu?bertuahnya awak
i have this camera and i am sooo in love with it.. you can take self potrait with at least erm.. 4 friends because it has wide wide screen.. and best part is.. you dont even need to have lights anywhere near the object you want to capture under the auto mode.. you should try it.. and remember one part in 500 days with summer where they went jogging photography? this camera could achieve that!
i love ‘soft skin with flash’ & ‘isweep panaroma’ pictures most! both of u still look good & pretty even in kaftan 😀
lovess the camera! lovesssss the colourrr!
anywayy, hello im new here and i think u blogged about amazing stufff!..soo yeah keep it up and i hope u dont mind that i link u to my blog as my fav blog!
regards,
lin
OMG!!!U both so think alike???*twin ka???*
CUTE tho..^_^
p/s:Hmmmmm,’seducing’la u PD!Tskkk,had to add another item in my WISHLISTla like this!^_^
So vivy…..u prefer leica or this cam….do let me know…cos im torn btw these 2
nice review …
OMG…
fall in luv to this cam already!!!!
I wish I can have this camera as my birthday present hahahaha
ooooh. I’m loving the features they’ve. Btw, Canon cameras take real good quality pics as well. I love the colours that canon cameras capture. It’s seriously worth a try.
Ooouhhh I love the isweep panorama mode! Looks cool. Anyways, opah is cute as always, kirim salam to opah 😀
I am so getting this camera!
Hehehe
Hi PD! 🙂
tapi sony kalau kte gerak2 its always blurry. unlike canon. been using sony for a while, nak tuka olympus or canon or leica.
u like kids in the photo’s but its look cute… u n toots have a strong instinct wearing same things… u still look pretty… 🙂
really love the sony gadgets! i’m using TX5 and satisfied with the quality…lovely colors come with good quality…weeee~ 🙂
aiyo.. first canon, then lumix, now sony?! you heartbreaker you.
p/s: there’s nothing wrong with your face. seriously, what don’t you like about your face?
pd: which cempaka did u go to? and which kindy did ur mum sent u? im impressed with ur upbringing, and am looking for better school for my kids. are all cempaka school the same in terms of performance? which is the best one, do u know? thanks in advance
Thanks for the camera information ^^
wow that’s a nice camera. if only it can shoot underwater picture…..
lin: of course boleh! 🙂 thank you, baju kelawar = my favourite kind of baju. hehe
siaolee: oh you have this camera! what colour did you buy? i’ve never seen that movie actually…any good?
soleil_m: me too! thank you for the compliment.
lin: of course i don’t mind. thank you for dropping by 🙂
appledia: my wishlist too!!
lulu: well, this sony definitely has more features and it’s more fun to use. Leica is expensive especially considering they have few features, but i like the colour on leica too.
nobita: thank you
fana164: haha when’s your birthday?
RS: i used to use canon.. it’s good too… choices, choices!
anisizaty: i know right…the isweep panorama is a cool feature!
liana: go buy!
gegey: really?? i guna ok je..maybe you have to really hold still?
abby haniz: thank you! 🙂
linda: yeah am liking sony too 🙂
passerby: haha fickle-minded.. btw i have never used lumix before.
coco: wow i think you overestimate me, but thank you for the compliment. i think it’s the same whichever cempaka you go too…all the teaching and extra curriculum there is good! i personally think cempaka has really high standards in terms of exams and gradings, so the training is more difficult but obviously good. for kindy, i went to an islamic kindergarten called Al-Hidayah. Not sure if it’s still around.
fionayjs: my pleasure…
DiN: maybe get underwater casing? not sure if they have.
oops. salah. leica, not lumix. 😛
pd: thanks for the info!
oh btw, that bed frame in ur gf’s room is gorge! where can i get similar ones?? 🙂 thx!