Review on 📷 Sony DSCWX220/N 18.2 MP Digital Camera - Gold | 2.7-Inch LCD Display by Troy Houston

Recently I was looking for a compact budget soap dish as a gift for my daughter. th birthday and had a chance to play and review three cameras available for under $200 at local BestBuy: Canon PowerShot ELPH 350 HS (Black) Canon PowerShot SX610 HS - Wi-Fi Ready (Black) Sony DSCWX220/B 18.2 MP Digital Camera with 2.7-inch LCD (Black) My main criteria for evaluating the relative merits of these cameras was the quality of the images captured in low-light conditions where point-and-shoot is commonly used. In my experience with all of our family's previous budget point-and-shoot cameras, they all generally perform well in bright ambient light, but most of them fail miserably when shooting indoors in dimly lit rooms, leaving them unacceptably noisy, grainy, and washed out to produce. Pictures from. When I brought the groceries home, I waited until the kids went to bed and performed a decidedly non-technical test by putting all three cameras in P mode (software) and setting everything automatically (ISO/shutter speed/ aperture/white balance) other than the flash by placing them on a desk in my dimly lit home office a few feet from a random piece of paper with text on it and taking two consecutive shots with the 2 second timer (to avoid shaking hands), one with flash and one without. An image showing a direct comparison of the test results using a small fragment of each frame is attached to this review. Both Canon cameras produced nearly identical grainy and noisy images with and without the flash. On the other hand, Sony has handled visual noise much better, to the point where you can read text even in the "no flash" image on the right. Auto-adjusting the white balance in a non-flash image to compensate for the bluish ambient light from a nearby computer monitor also worked slightly better. I noticed similar clear differences between the Sony and the two Canons in video mode. The former delivers remarkably sharp, noise-free footage compared to Canon's crappy picture, which lost fine detail to annoying pulsing digital noise. I also noticed that the Sony shots were very close in brightness and overall color to how my own eyes perceived space, while Canon went overboard in brightening the image at the expense of noise and color accuracy. Sony is able to record Full HD progressive video at 60 frames per second (frames per second) compared to Canon's 30 frames per second, making it the best choice for capturing action-packed scenes such as sports, pets , small children and toddlers playing makes with pets. Based on my previous Canon point-and-shoot experience, I found the menu structure on the two Canons easier to navigate. The menu navigation from Sony took a little getting used to at first, but overall it is logical enough to get used to it quickly. Physically, the Sony is similar in size, weight and grip to the Elph 350, the smaller of the two Canons. Although I have fairly thin fingers for a grown man, both cameras are too small and slick to hold comfortably and there is nothing to snag my fingers. In comparison, the curved bulges and little rubber finger grips on the larger Canon PowerShot SX610 were a really nice touch. Both Canons have very similar controls, typical of all other Canon compact cameras. The controls on the smaller Elph 350 are easier to use than those on the Sony DSC-WX220, where you have to use your fingernails to press tiny thin MENU and DELETE buttons too close to the spinning wheel. This can make the Sony problematic for most adults, but since I'm buying a camera for a child, its small size and tiny controls are an acceptable compromise for a noticeably better image in low light. PS Full review posted on my website. Blog: https://caspiancanuck.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/point-and-shoot-cameras