Sony DSCWX350 Digital Compact Camera with Wi-Fi and NFC (18.2 MP, 20x Optical Zoom) - Black

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This increased to around five seconds when capturing and combining multiple frames, but it’s easy to switch from Superior Auto to Intelligent Auto to deactivate these modes when you don’t want to wait.

PayPal Credit and PayPal Pay in 3 are trading names of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. A dedicated video mode provides video-specific scene selection to help you get better results, and an additional scene mode is available for stills shooting.Switch to Multi Frame NR mode and the camera captures a burst of exposures in an attempt to minimise noise, but even this trickery can’t make images captured at ISO6400 or ISO12800 look attractive.

Now let's get in to more details of our Sony WX350 review by analysing its specs and features and listing out its pros and cons compared to average competitor cameras in its class.We found that if the pictures have any noise in at all, you're going to increase the appearance of it by adding any sharpening in post production. As on most Sony compacts, Optical SteadyShot can’t be turned off, so in place of my usual before and after shots, I’ve done something a little different. Whether or not the fresh processing power has boosted image quality is harder to quantify, especially as the DSC-WX300 was pretty handy in this department. But it’s packed with features designed to appeal to casual snappers, so includes Sony’s Creative controls, Picture Effects, smile/face detection, auto object framing, motion shot video, and, of course, sweep panorama.

When it does work, however, you can use your smartphone to adjust the zoom, self timer and flash, and you can choose to save the photos to your phone as well as on the camera, which is pretty useful. Exmor R CMOS Sensor and BIONZ X Image Processor Captures high definition images with sharp details and minimal noise, even in low light; offers fast performance and buffering speeds.

I zoomed the WX350 to its maximum 500mm equivalent focal length and took a sequence of shots in fading light with progressively slower shutter speeds. If first impressions count for anything in the world of digital cameras, the Sony WX350 makes a very positive one. Sensitivity on the WX350 ranges from ISO 80-12800, but you can only manually control it up to ISO 3200.

Sure, it's basic in terms of manual control, but Sony's ticked the right boxes for the target audience.

There’s no way to manually activate macro focussing either, but that’s no big deal as in all three automatic modes the camera reliably detects a close-up subject and focuses correctly without you intervening. An update to the 2013 WX300, the Sony Cybershot WX350 is available in black or white, is lighter than its predecessor by 20 grams and comes with a new Bionz X image processor and the ability to record movies in full HD. WX350 has a native ISO range of 80 - 12800 but unfortunately, Sony WX350 doesn't have RAW file support. Unfortunately you can’t take photos while in the middle of a movie recording, something Sony seems to be moving away from on recent models. Shooting landscapes and flowers with Cyber-shot This introduces techniques for taking shots of nature scenes such as spring greenery, autumn leaves, and flowers.