Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX7

Playback Mode

The TX7 has a big, bright sharp screen, and the playback options that it offers make the most of this, offering a variety of slideshow options, so you can show off your shots. Slide shows can be easily created with a number of transition effects, and it comes with four types of music, as well as the ability to upload your own MP3s with the bundled ‘Music Transfer’ application. Images can also be viewed in a number of different ways, including a calendar view, up to 28 thumbnails on screen at once. The event view that is present on other Sony cameras is not available on this one, though.

In-Camera Editing (6.25)

The TX7 provides you with a reasonable selection of editing tools: you can crop, resize and rotate images with ease. A tool for removing red eye is also available, as well as a rather basic image editing program. We question the usefulness of this: it allows you to draw directly on the image itself, but the touch screen isn’t of a high enough resolution to be actually useful. The only possibly useful feature is a tool to add a range of stamps (such as hearts, sparkles and the like) to images and to add frames to images. Actually, calling this useful is perhaps overstating the case: it might appeal to the bedazzler fan, but everyone else is likely to run away screaming.

Direct Print Options (6.25)

The usual direct printing features are included: the camera supports DPOF and PictBridge. DPOF allows you to flag images on the memory card for printing, and when you insert this memory card into a printer, the printer will detect the flagged images and print them. PictBridge support means that this camera can be connected directly to a printer that supports it to print without a computer.

This is also one of the first cameras to support TransferJet, a new wireless connection system that can be used to quickly transfer images between cameras. We were not able to test this feature as we don’t have another TransferJet device available, but Sony and several other manufacturers are releasing devices that support this new standard.