Digital Camera Review - Sony Cybershot DSC G1 - Photo Gallery, Specification

Friday, May 1, 2009




The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G1 was a surprise announcement back at PMA in February, and is only starting to appear on store shelves now. The Sony G1 digital compact camera is a curious mix of exciting and rather more humdrum features. It offers a very large 3.5 inch LCD screen with an amazing 921,000 pixels, providing much higher resolution than most cameras. On the other hand, the DSC-G1 "only" has a 6 megapixel sensor, losing it marks at least from a marketing point of view, and the zoom is just the standard 3x optical model, equivalent to 38-114mm on a 35mm camera. Back to the plus points, the Sony G1 has 2GB of built-in memory - yes, you read that correctly, 2Gb of memory - enough for 600 images at the highest resolution available. The DSC-G1 offers Wi-Fi connectivity to any DNLA certified device and can cleverly connect to other G1 cameras without requiring an existing Wi-Fi hotspot. In addition the DSC-G1 features what Sony call "Double Anti-Blur", which is actually optical stabilisation via Super SteadyShot, and electronic stabilisation via the ISO 1000 High Sensitivity mode. .