Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W220

Movie Mode
The WSC-220 can shoot at 640x480 or 320x240 resolution at 30 frames per second, 16 frames per second or 8.3 frames per second, storing trhe results in MPEG1 format, which means fairly large files. On the plus side, most image controls from the still photography side carry over to shooting video, including white balance, color mode and optical image stabilization.

Drive / Burst Mode
According to Sony, the full-resolution burst rate mode is 1.7 frames per second for up to 100 consecutive shots. There is also a self-timer, with 2-second and 10-second intervals, and exposure bracketing of plus or minute 0.3 and 0.7 EV..

Playback Mode
While reviewing images, photos can be magnified up to 8x, an adequate if not particularly generous range. Zooming out repeatedly brings up thumbnail image view, first with 12 images on screen simultaneously, then 25.
 

There is an odd assortment of editing options here. Some are clearly useful, including red-eye removal, soft focus, and perhaps the fisheye effect and partial color, which produces an interesting advertising-like effect. Maybe adding cross-filter sparkles will make you happy and, if so, more power to you. On the other hand, the Happy Face effect which imposes a smile on a recorded face by distorting the image is indisputably creepy.

Custom Image Presets
The Intelligent Scene Recognition system analyzes the subject and attempts to assign it to one of five built-in scene modes: twilight portrait, twilight, twilight using a tripod, backlight and backlight portrait. Unlike other cameras which implement this approach, the Sony version will snap two consecutive shots if more than one scene mode might be appropriate.

Altogether there are ten user-selectable scene mode presets, including high-sensitivity, twilight, twilight portrait, soft snap (for soft-focus backgrounds), landscape, beach, snow, fireworks, underwater and gourmet.