Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T900
Digital Camera Review
Jun 09, 2009
- By Tim Barribeau
4.2
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T900, priced at $379.99 captures 12-megapixel images and HD video. However, photos tended to be noisy, and the small lens produced major distortion and chromatic aberration problems.
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Video Mode (14.75)
There are only three shooting settings while in Movie Mode on the Sony T900: Auto, High Sensitivity and Underwater. The movie controls are similar to those available when shooting stills, but not as complete. Exposure compensation runs ±2EV at 1/3 steps, there are the same choices for white balance as there are when shooting still photos, focus mode can be set to either multi or infinity, metering mode is either multi or center, and the stabilizer is either on or off. The front of the camera has two microphones, so it records sound in stereo.
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Video Color (6.77)
The color can be set to standard, sepia or black and white. The graph below shows the color error, a measure of deviance from known values, so a smaller line is better. The T900 didn't perform very well on this test, partly due to an automatic white balance setting that struggled to correctly deal with the incandescent bulbs we use for testing this section.
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Video Sharpness (6.02)
The movie resolution can be set to 720 fine, 720 standard or VGA. All the video resolutions run at around 30fps, with the fine and standard settings referring to a higher bit rate. Our test here looks at how much detail can be resolved when moving horizontally, then vertically when recording in the highest quality mode. The T900 had quite poor horizontal resolution, but very good vertical.
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