Customer Rating : 4 / 5.0
Sony DSC-HX5V 10.2MP CMOS Digital Cheap Price Reviewed by D. Pierce (USA)

I’ve had the HX5V back I replaced my Canon SD800IS in March, ‘10 and accept been actual admiring with what it has to offer. It captures abundant images but with a caveat. It is not, strictly, a point and shoot. It has appearance such as the hand-held twilight, anti motion becloud and iPanorama that yield some ability and convenance to accomplish the a lot of of. A lot of of the complaints I accept apprehend actuality chronicle to a confounding of the camera appearance and not a abortion in design. I’ll abode some of the the issues and how I accept abhorred or dealt with them.

Colors: A lot of bunched agenda cameras appear with auto-ISO and auto white-balance as the defaults. I consistently over-ride the auto-ISO with the everyman ISO ambience and acclimatize manually from there if needed. Auto WB is larboard on, but around no accepted camera will analyze the odd mix of ablaze that bunched beaming lighting puts out. That’s why there is a custom WB setting. When custom white-balance is acclimated properly, colors are rendered nicely. In daylight, I accept had no problems and beneath beaming alfresco lighting it seems to cede colors absolutely well.

Distortion: A lot of P&S cameras don’t alpha out at 24mm agnate on the advanced end (one of the affidavit that I bought the camera). If you are not acclimated to basic application a wider-angle lens, your shots can aftermath some bend distortion. Buildings and interiors charge to be attempt anxiously at advanced angles to abbreviate the “leaning walls” aftereffect acquired by the abstract bend of advanced bend lenses that is generally mistaken for lens distortion. The lens itself is appreciably chargeless of baloney at both the advanced and continued end of the zoom range. BTW, humans attempt up abutting with a wide-angle lens will NOT like how they look!

Lack of detail: The HX5V is not a DSLR. Its 10MP files will never abutment the detail that you can get with a ample APS-C sensor. If you are bedeviled with detail and like to appearance your pictures in minute detail at 100% zoom with your adenoids 12 inches abroad from your monitor, this is not the camera for you. That said, it will fit in your abridged and aftermath sharp, abundant images acceptable for 8×10 prints or even larger…if acclimated properly. Auto-ISO will automatically addition ISO in low-light conditions. As declared before, this camera is a compact, not a DSLR. Though it does bigger at ISO 800 than most, it still has a tiny sensor that is affected to babble and the accompanying accident of detail from babble abridgement processing at college ISO. In low light, I accept acclimated the hand-held afterglow action with accomplished results. This approach isn’t abracadabra and if the camera moves too abundant during the assorted exposures, it will not do the job. If you accept your accountable able-bodied and accumulate the camera steady, the images in this approach can be actual impressive. Agenda zoom can could cause problems at the continued end. Back this affection artlessly takes a abate centermost area of the angel and assault it up, resolution suffers. I’m blessed with the 10x optical zoom and axis off the “digital zoom” advantage prevents its use and adventitious angel degradation.

iPanorama doesn’t work: Nonsense. It is in fact one of the best in-camera panorama solutions out there. Like aggregate else, there is no chargeless lunch. You accept to convenance affective the camera steadily and calmly beyond the arena and accumulate in apperception that back it is application the video approach to abduction the 100 or so angel slices, you are bound to a 1080 pixel alpine angel (unless you ambush it and use the vertical approach alongside to get a 1920 alpine panorama).

In general, the HX5V will action as a point and shoot camera but to get the a lot of out of its arresting affection set, you charge to yield the time to apprentice the functions and how to best yield advantage of what they accept to offer. It is not a camera for anybody but it can be a abundant 24×7, take-anywhere apparatus with some class-leading appearance if use it well.

I accept acquaint some images on my allotment website with examples of low-light, indoor, outdoor, panorama and extremes of the zoom range.

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If you wish a abundant bunched camera with a amount of advantageous appearance and are accommodating to do some of the appointment all-important to get the a lot of out of it, the HX5V is an accomplished choice. Get one and adore it!

Happy shooting!

Dave

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