Sony DSC-T1 5MP Digital Camera First Look Review
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Introduction: We just received the Sony DSC-T1. Currently the World's Thinnest 5MP Digital Camera. We reported about this new Sony Camera the first time in October. I see a lot of Gadgets, but honestly when I opened the box of the Sony DSC-T1 removed the handbooks and CD and was looking at the tiny Digital Camera I got a really big smile on my face. This Camera is not only thin but it is actually looks very small to. And this big screen (2.5") is out of this world. The Sony DSC-T1 is only on sale in Japan right now. It is supposed to be in stores in the US early 2004. The people at Dynamism shipped it to I4U for review and I am very excited about the fact that this first look is the first hands-on review of the Sony DSC-T1 available on the Web. I found two reviews (dcresource, LetsGoDigital) that take a look at a pre-production model of the Sony DSC-T1. Those reviewers were not allowed to post sample photos yet. The DSC-T1 that we got is an official japanese market release, and we did not get it from Sony directly so we can say and write what we want about it. This is a first look at the Sony DSC-T1, describing my first impressions with the Camera. We will over the next couple of days provide a much more detailed and full review, including what other people say about this new Sony Gadget to find out if its a head turner or not.
First Impressions: As I said in the introduction, I really got excited when I put this cool looking camera into my hands. The package includes, a Cradle, power cable, USB cable, Lithium-ION Batter, Sony ImageMixer and ImageTransfer Software on CD, Video Cable to connect Camera to a TV, 32MB DUO Memory Stick, Memory Stick Adapter and Wrist Strap. After being able to put it out of my hands, first thing was to slide in the small lithium-ion battery into the camera. On the bottom of the camera is a little sliding door that covers the battery slot and also provides access to the Memory stick slot. I placed the DSC-T1 on the cradle and connected the power-cable to it. Then the wait began. After about 2 hours the little yellow charging light on the camera went off and the Camera was ready for a first spin. Pressing the little power button on top of the camera and it takes maybe a second and the big screen comes to life. If you forget to slide down the lens-cover on the front it will display a message telling you so. The lens-cover design is great, because it has no loose parts. It is mounted directly on the camera casing. I put the function button on the side to the green icon, which puts it into the still image mode. It was dark when I got the Camera so the first amazement came, that the DSC-T1 has a little red light lamp (so called AF-assist lamp), that lights up the dark room enough that I can see on the screen what I am going to shoot. The light comes on when start pressing the Shutter button. This feature is great, it always annoyed me with other cheaper digital cameras that I cannot see on the display anything when it is dark. The Sony DSC-T1 is a 5 Mega Pixel Camera. By default it takes photos in that resolution. I just took a couple of photos around the house. Pushing the left button on the touch pad next to the screen, I can preview my last shoot. Using the zoom buttons I can zoom in and out on the screen and also pane around the photo. The big (2.5") high resolution (211,000pixel) screen just pays off right here. I can get a real good feel if the photo was good and with the zoom I can see any detail. The image processing is very fast. there is no wait time between moving in and out of the photo or moving around on it. The flash works pretty well, I usually get red-eye photos of people very easily, but so far without changing any settings, no red eye shots yet. The zoom works very well too. The DSC-T1 features a Vario-Tessar® lens from Carl Zeiss (see Zeiss Press-Release). A prism deflects the beam path inside the camera housing by 90°. The movement of the lens element group permitting the 3x zoom range therefore takes place inside the camera. That's one of the secrets behind the small size of the Sony DSC-T1 (Sony US DSC-T1 Press-Release). To transfer photos to my Notebook, I first
just connected the USB cable from the cradle to my Windows XP
Notebook. The Camera is immediately recognized as a drive and I can
drag and drop the photos. When installing the Sony ImageTransfer and
Sony USB drivers, the image transfer gets a bit cooler. During
transfer a window displays previews of the photos flying in. The
Sony ImageTransfer software comes with most Sony Cameras.
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