Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700 Digital Camera Review

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700

Digital Camera Review

Oct 10, 2008 - By Tim Barribeau
2 Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-T700 is the beautiful new addition to the company's pocket-sized T line. Armed with a high-resolution 3.5" LCD touch screen, 4x optical zoom, and an impressive 4GB of internal memory, the T700 costs $399.99, and is an impressive camera on paper. While this 10.1-megapixel model is certainly easy on the eyes, its performance on our bevy of lab test wasn't always a pretty picture. Details on the T700's wins and losses follow.
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Speed/Timing 
One of the most critical features of a camera is how quickly it can react: you don't want to miss that YouTube-worthy moment when your friend does a header over an innocent park bench.

Startup to First Shot (6.40)
This is a measure of how long it takes the camera to power up, focus and take a shot. The DSC-T700 was actually quite slow, taking on average approximately 3.5 seconds from pressing the power button to the first image being recorded. While not cripplingly lethargic, by the time you pull the camera out of your pocket and power it up, there's a pretty good chance that the unexpected grab-shot moment will have passed --especially if you forget to lower the camera's front in all the excitement.

Shot-to-Shot (9.38)
The T700 has a relatively fast burst mode for a compact camera, capable of taking about 1.6 images per second at full resolution. It can take up to 100 images in this mode, assuming your memory card doesn't get filled up first, which should let you capture that perfect moment in a fast-moving event. Our only complaint is that burst mode isn't available at ISOs above 400, so capturing sports or other active pursuits in burst mode will prove difficult in less than blazing sunlight.

Shutter-Shot (10.00)
Shutter-shot is a measure of the time delay between pressing the shutter and the photo being taken. This used to be a major issue when digital cameras were in their infancy, but is mostly solved now. The delay between pushing the shutter button and the image being recorded on the T700 was so small as to be immeasurable.

Processing (6.43)
To measure how fast the camera can process large images, we record full-resolution pictures and time how long it takes to show the recorded image on the LCD. The T700 took, on average, 1.3 seconds from the image being taken to it appearing for review on the screen. This is slightly below average, but not bad.

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