Digital Camera Review

Digital Camera Review

Sep 28, 2006 - By Richard Baguley
Buttons are so uncool: all of the cool products these days come with touch-screen displays, at least that's what many seem to think. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-N2 follows this trend by replacing the conventional slew of buttons with a 3-inch touch screen menu system. Instead of buttons and dials for setting modes and controlling the features of the camera, it’s all done through the on-screen menu with a fingertip. It’s an interesting idea that leads to a clean design; there are only three buttons on the back of the camera, so novice users don’t get confused about which button to press.
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Picture Quality/Size Options
Eight image size options are supported, from the maximum of 10 megapixels down to VGA size. The on-screen menu doesn’t specify the resolutions of the different settings, but they are as follows: 10MP (), 3:2 () 8MP (3264 x 2448,), 5MP (2592 x 1944,), 3MP (2048 x 1536), 2MP (1632 x 1224), VGA (640 x 480) and HDTV (1920 x 1080).

Picture Effects Mode
The N2 includes four special effect color modes: Black and White, Sepia, Natural and Vivid. We generally recommend that users avoid these, as you can get better looking effects using an image editing program. Plus, if you don’t like the effect, you can reverse it, which you can’t do with the in-camera effects.

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