Sony cybershot t2 manual

I had no trouble finding features or options, which is saying something. The lens is a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 3x optical zoom lens with a 35mm equivalent range of 38 to mm.

That's not particularly fast, but it's coupled with Sony's Super SteadyShot image stabilization to make up for it handsomely. Two More Buttons. On the right side are the Telephoto and Wide Angle buttons. To take a picture, you slip the lens cover down, focus, and press the large Shutter button. In spot focus mode, you can just touch the screen where you want to set focus. A small white frame will be displayed where you touched.

Even with a card in the camera, images are saved to the 4GB of internal memory until it is full. You have to export the images from internal memory to the Memory Stick. The T2 groups images into albums depending on the shooting interval and frequency. And the Scrapbook button plays back images stored internally with backgrounds. It also powers the camera on but not off , like the Playback button.

Both the small Power button and the large Shutter button are flush with the top panel. Finally, an application called PMB Portable is embedded in the camera so when you save an image as a sharemark, the app uploads them to the Web using a computer when cabled by USB. Startup was quick at 1.

I got pretty deft at flipping the cover open with one hand as I was raising the camera's LCD up to my eyes. The trick is to press the top edge of the cover down.

So there was no noticeable startup time for me. While the Sony T2's shutdown ranked average at 2. Once you shut the cover which takes just a fraction of a second , you can pocket the camera without worry. Power does stay on a second or so more, but there are no moving parts. So, again, there was no noticeable shutdown time for me, either. What really counts is shutter lag, however, and here the Sony T2 was very, very good.

Its combined wide angle and telephoto autofocus lag was an above average 0. That's above average for any digicam. Certainly having just a 3x zoom avoids the autofocus penalty of a long zoom, but consider that average dSLR autofocus lag is 0.

Prefocus lag, where you half-press the shutter button to set focus and then completely depress it to capture the shot, was blindingly fast at 0. Cycling time with the Sony T2 was above average, another place where built-in memory may make a big difference. The flash recycles quickly, taking just 3. But that's a misleading number.

It often indicates a weak flash, and that's what we have on the Sony T2. The manufacturer-specified flash range shots do well from That's bolder than most digicams dare. And there's a good bit of noise in those images to remind you why. That's good news because the Sony T2 stores your images in its internal memory, not the card you pop in.

So your most efficient workflow would be to cable it up and copy the images from internal memory, rather than copy them to the card and then put the card in a reader to copy them a second time.

Weight ranks average by just a hair, and LCD size is above average by just another hair. Neither bothered me. The Sony T2 package feels like a deck of cards in your pocket and the screen seems large enough. The LCD is high resolution with , pixels and was usable in bright sun, if just barely. That's important because you need to see the screen to operate the camera.

That's where the buttons are. Storage and Battery. With 4GB of internal storage, you can fit quite a few images in the Sony T2 before it off-loads them to a Memory Stick. That's many more than you would typically shoot in a session, but not many more than you might take on a vacation. And if you keep some favorite images in the camera or shoot video, you have plenty of space left over. The Sony T2 can capture images in six different sizes. You can also record x video at 30 fps for up to , nearly an hour, internally, or about six minutes on a MB card.

The proprietary lithium-ion battery is CIPA-rated for about minutes or shots. But several factors affect that performance.

Tapping into features like continuous focus Auto Focus set to Monitor and continuous SteadyShot, shooting more than once every 30 seconds, zooming, and firing the flash: all shorten battery life. Touch Screen. I love the buttons on my dSLRs, no question about it. But I also like touch screens. I like them especially for devices that can do more things than they have buttons for like an all-in-one printer.

Better a touch screen that can draw many single function buttons than an OK or Start button that may or may not do what you expect it to do. But organizing all those options takes some work, and some companies with touch screen cameras don't quite finish the job. Sony has. I never once had to look in the manual to find out where a command or control would be.

It would be on the screen, of course. But it has to be apparently where in the hierarchy of menus it should be, and Sony has worked that out rather elegantly. I say that after complaining about prior models. Sony retains its odd Main Menu arrangement, but it seemed less cumbersome on the Sony T2. Menus with a lot to list use multiple pages. These are clearly indicated and easily scrolled you just tap the Sony T2's screen, after all , although it's easy to get lost.

Your finger is all you need to activate screen buttons, although Sony supplied a Paint Pen or stylus that can be attached to the wrist strap. None was supplied with the Sony T2 review unit, but it's just one more thing to lose, really. You can turn off the beep a set of musical notes that I find particularly unnerving in public that accompanies every press of an onscreen button.

And if you're having trouble using the buttons, try that. The audio feedback isn't quite simultaneous, but the visual feedback is. Sony uses the four corners of the T2 screen for navigation.

The Back button is in the top right corner when you start burrowing into the menu system. Home is in the top left corner. You'll see strips of options along the bottom and left side of the screen. And you can tap any icon like the Macro status icon to activate its menu. In spot focus mode, tapping the screen also sets focus, which is a terrific idea.

In playback, tapping the screen enlarges the image, drawing navigation buttons which can be dismissed and providing zoom control. The touch screen doesn't recognize gestures like the iPhone, but it functions surprisingly well, both for beginners, thanks to its Guide mode, and advanced users, who are looking for things like ISO, EV, and White Balance options. But a few cameras have made that simple pleasure into a full-blown performance. In some, you actually run a program to build the show as in muvee-equipped cameras.

Sony has recently added pan and zoom effects with music to transitions in its very effective slide shows. This playback option groups images by the time they were shot and displays them against a background.

Very nice presentation. With the T2, Sony has rethought how to display the captured images. And I really like what they've done. It starts with the camera's ability to automatically group your images. The basic specification of the T2 is unremarkable. It is an 8. However it is exceptionally compact and lightweight, measuring However the T2 has a number of features that these models lack, particularly its Super SteadyShot optical image stabilisation system. One of the main selling points of the T2 is its four gigabytes of internal flash memory.

It has a number of playback options, including a scrapbook feature, slideshows and a number of in-camera editing functions, such as red-eye removal and the option to paint and draw on your pictures, add pre-set shapes such as hearts or arrows, or add filter effects such as radial blur, which can be positioned using the touch screen.

The T2 can be connected directly to a printer via the multi-connector socket, and pictures can be printed straight from the camera. It does have a slot for Memory Stick Duo cards, so storage capacity can be increased by currently up to 4GB. The first is the position of the lens.

In common with a lot of sliding-cover cameras the lens is in the top right corner of the body, and it is very easy to smear your finger across it when opening the front cover. My other concern is more specific to the T2. Touch-screens work well on PDAs and the iPhone, but the screen on the T2 is a lot smaller than those gadgets.

The screen is also quite soft and flexible, which results in a ripple effect when touched. The zoom lens control is slow but very smooth, allowing precise control over framing. The T2 has a fairly good movie mode, with the internal memory providing 51 minutes of recording time at the maximum quality x , 30fps setting.

It sounds like a good idea, or at least an interesting one, but in practice you have to grin like the Joker in order to get it to work. It starts up in just under three seconds, which is about average for a compact. In single-shot mode its shot-to-shot cycle time is and impressive 1. The multi-point AF system is very good, focusing quickly and accurately in all lighting conditions, including near darkness. The built-in flash is a little bit underpowered, with a maximum range of three metres at wide angle, but it works well at close range, with accurate metering and no burned-out highlights even on very close-up portrait shots.

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