The Sony Cybershot T -550
One of the newest cameras to be put out by Sony does double duty as both a camcorder and an ordinary camera. It is called the Sony Cybershot T-550 and it is capable of shooting in high definition.
The camera is quite sleek and flashing looking. It is made out of high quality black plastic and metal parts.
It almost always takes a superb shot. It has a 10.1 megapixel function with a double anti-blur feature.It also has a function called theDouble Anti-blur with Optical SteadyShot so you are never looking at double people or snaky light trails ever again.
The 3.5 inch LCD touch screen allows for complete ease of functionality of the camera. To help keep everything in focus there is also a face detection function which makes sure that people’s faces in the scene are in the sharpest focus possible and that each shot has perfect exposure.
This ensures that you end up with fewer spoiled shots.
How do you like the sound of a camera that can shoot video and capture clean crisp images at the same time? You can get images that are 1280X 720 out of this camera without having to interrupt your video shooting.
The Cyber-shot T500 features Face Detection, ensuring that people’s faces in the scene are in sharp focus and with perfect exposure for fewer spoiled shots. Up to eight faces can be tracked at a time, making the T500 ideal for capturing large groups of friends and family.
The camera can also shoot 10.1 effective megapixels so the images that you end up with really are of a highly graphic, professional quality. If you are planning to shoot landscapes or celebrities and sell them to magazines
You can take it to sporting events or stadiums and get exactly the pictures you want using the 5X optical zoom. The lens capable of doing this is the Car Zeiss Vario Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom.
The camera is also beautiful to look at with an extra large 3.5 inch Clear Photo LCD Plus touch screen. This makes it a joy to look through when you are trying to frame or focus and image.
Shooting could not e simpler because it has several shooting modes including the regular features that all Sony Cameras come with including High Sensitivity, Auto, Soft Snap, Twilight, Portrait, Twilight Portrait and Landscape.
There is also a very High Speed Shutter function that captures more elusive images such as the Snow, Beach and Fireworks.
The Cyber-shot T500 will be available from October 2008. There is no information about the price for now but you can estimate it to be around five hundred bucks. It might be as low as 350 depending on where you buy it from but top of the line Sony cameras are already in the 450 to 600 dollar range in most camera stores.