Digital Camera Review - Sony Cybershot DSC S85 - Photo Gallery, Specification

Friday, May 1, 2009




The Sony DSC-S85 CyberShot has the distinction of being the first four megapixel digital camera to be priced below $1000, in fact it has an unbelievable MSRP of just $799. On the outside it's physically identical to the Sony DSC-S75 except it's finished in all black. Inside there's a new 1/1.8" 4.1-MegaPixel Super HAD CCD capable of creating images up to 2272 x 1704 pixels. Images can be stored as JPEG compressed with three quality levels or as uncompressed TIFF to produce the best possible photo-quality prints. The internal RAM buffer has been increased to allow for a three-frame burst mode and an AE Bracketing mode has been added to the exposure options.    The S85 is equipped with a sharp and fast Carl Zeiss F2.0 3X optical 7-21mm (34-102mm 35mm equiv) Vario Sonnar zoom lens and a fast accurate auto focus system. It has both an optical view finder and a 1.8-inch EX Bright, 123,000-pixel color LCD display. In addition to still images the S85 also captures motion video in MPEG format. MPEG HQ offers full screen playback and the MPEG EX mode can continuously record video up to the capacity of the flash media. This means that 90 minutes of video at can be continuously recorded on 128MB Memory Stick media. Both MPEG modes capture sound as well as video. JPEG, TIFF, Text or Clip Motion (animated GIF) formats.    .