Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5 is a digital still camera announced by Sony on February 18, 2010. It boasts advanced features like Backlight Correction HDR, Hand-Held Twilight aided by the Exmor R CMOS sensor, and the intelligent panorama stitching mode, called the iSweep. The camera also has a waterproof body (up to 10 feet), which also makes it dust-proof. It is also freeze-proof for up to -10° Celsius and shock-proof, when dropped from a height of about 1.5 metres. Sony describes it as a rugged camera.

Specifications

Technical specifications

Lens

The camera has a Carl Zeiss lens, with 4x zoom capability, though the digital zoom can go up to 8x. The focal length of the lens is 4.43 - 17.7 mm.

LCD screen

The camera does not have a viewfinder. It is equipped with 3 inch touchscreen TFT display, which covers the entire back side of the device. It has about 230,400 usable pixels on the screen.

Special Features

iSweep Panorama

The DSC-TX5 can capture large panorama shots. Up to a hundred shots are taken by sweeping the camera from one side to the other. The camera can be swept from left-to-right, right-to-left and even up-to-down and down-to-up for vertical panoramas. It intelligently stitches the photos together and reduces the blur from moving subjects. It has support for up to 258° panoramic shots, which gives a 7,152 x 1,080 dimension image