Sony CyberShot T500 digital camera : Everyone’s spoiled for choice with the camera that thinks it’s a camcorder. Now it’s easy to capture your favourite moments as sumptuous stills or HD movie clips with the slim, stylish new Sony Cyber-shot T500. Available in a choice of eye-catching piano black, silver and red finishes, the chic Sony T500 is packed with Sony technology to help everyone take better-looking pictures. Alongside sparkling 10.1 effective megapixel still image quality, the Sony CyberShot T500 is the first digital camera that can capture crisp, clear HD movie clips with stereo sound. New HD movie mode allows up to 60 mins (approx) of video to be stored on the supplied 4GB Memory Stick.

Sony CyberShot T500 features movie modes
Not sure whether that special moment deserves a photo or a video clip? It’s easy to switch instantly between still and movie modes at the touch of a conveniently placed button on top of the camera. You can even grab crisp still images (1280×720 pixels) without interrupting video shooting.

3.5″ touchscreen LCD included in the Sony T500
The superb Carl Zeiss lens on the CyberShot DSC-T500 features a new ring-type Zoom button, allowing easy adjustment throughout the 5x range while you’re shooting movies. Detail-packed stills and video clips can be viewed on the extra-large wide 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD. As well as giving a beautiful view of your images, the touchscreen also makes operation of camera functions beautifully simple. Touching anywhere on the screen while you’re composing a shot locks focus on that part of the scene.

Sony CyberShot DSC-T500 incorporates Face Detection
Touching a face turns on 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 Sony T500 ideal for capturing large groups of friends and family.

Sony DSC-T500 digital camera with optical SteadyShot
Shooting handheld without flash can mean blurred pictures, especially when light levels are low or with telephoto shots. Optical SteadyShot is teamed with an improved High Sensitivity mode to allow faster shutter speeds. This �Dual Anti-blur’ solution is complemented by Clear RAW Noise Reduction for clean, natural images, even in low-light conditions like parties or twilight.

HD Slide Shows for all your pictures
After you’ve finished shooting, HD Slide Shows add an extra dimension of enjoyment to your collection of photos and videos. Pick from a choice of musical accompaniments, or import your favourite music track from a connected PC.

Sony CyberShot T500 price & availability
If you want an even bigger picture, still images and HD movie clips can be experienced with extra impact on your HD Ready television. Connected via HDMI to your Sony HD TV, BRAVIA Sync allows on-screen control of Cyber-shot playback functions using the TV’s remote control. Supplied Picture Motion Browser software also makes it easy to upload favourite photos and clips to image sharing sites. The Sony CyberShot DSC-T500 will be available from October 2008.

Sony Cyber-Shot T500 Specifications
• Effective megapixels : 10.1 effective megapixels
• Image sensor : 1/2.3 type Super HAD CCD
• Movie mode : MPEG4 AVC/H.264, HD movies 1280×720 pixels at 30fps
• Shooting modes : Auto, Program Auto, Scene Selection (High Sensitivity / Soft Snap / Twilight Portrait / Twilight / Landscape / High Speed Shutter /Snow / Beach / Fireworks), Movie
• Lens : Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens
• Display : 3.5-inch wide Clear Photo LCD Plus with touchscreen
• Image stabilisation system : Double Anti-Blur with Optical SteadyShot
• Face Detection : Yes

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Nokia N95 8GB Review : At first glance the Nokia N95 8GB camera phone has a limited amount of buttons. It gives the device its placid look. The front side caries the buttons for the menu, the multimedia menu, answering and ending a call. Directly below the monitor the buttons are found for confirming an option in the menu or to go back one step. When you slide down the slider system, the multimedia buttons appear. We find the play, stop, pause, next and previous buttons here. The Nokia N95 8GB multimedia buttons make operating the multimedia functions a child’s play. When the slider system is slid up, the numeric keys appear. The numeric keys have good relief and give better tactile feedback.

Nokia camera phone
The 5 Megapixel digital camera incorporated in the Nokia N95 8GB features a Carl Zeiss lens, LED flash and auto focus. Unfortunately the camera does not contain an optical zoom. The competition, like the Samsung G800, features a 3x optical zoom. The advantage of an optical zoom compared to a digital zoom is that the image quality does not decrease when zooming in. The N95 8GB has a 6x digital zoom at its disposal with maximum resolution. When using maximum zoom, the picture quality decreases but the picture can still be used for example for Internet publication.

Nokia N95 8GB Review
We can be brief about the picture quality; it is excellent. The sample photos speak for themselves. During the time we were testing the camera, we had a trip planned to the CES in Las Vegas. This was a perfect time to take the Nokia 8GB N95 with us to the States. The environments of Las Vegas are very nice to take test pictures. The camera performed well, especially in good light circumstances. The colors are bright and the captured pictures are clear. When shooting in badly lit circumstances the quality drops dramatically and we notice the shortcomings of the sensor and the pixel sensitivity. The usual shortcomings of today’s mobile photography. Continue to read the full Nokia N95 8GB Test at LetsGoMobile.

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Digital Camera Review has reviewed the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H9 and writes – “The Sony DSC-H9 is a full-featured camera which focuses faster than many competing models. The Carl Zeiss lens, at 15X optical, is among the broadest range available. However, images are noisy at and above ISO 400. Also, the shadow detail loss and lens distortion characteristics tend to detract from an otherwise impressive feature set. Bottom line is that it seems a bit expensive for the performance demonstrated, but if kept between ISO 80 and ISO 400, it can capture quality images, particularly those that require the quick focus and shutter release.”

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