Digital Camera Review - Sony Mavica CD1000 - Photo Gallery, Specification

Friday, May 1, 2009




The CD-1000 features automatic exposure using one of five programmed modes (Auto, Night, Night+, Landscape, Portrait) or you can switch it into shutter speed-priority (18-steps, 8 - 1/500 secs) or aperture-priority mode (F2.8, 3.4, 4, 4.8, 5.6, 6.8, 8, 9.6, 11.) Lock in a fast shutter speed to freeze even the fastest moving subjects easily. Or open up the aperture to blur the background or close it down for maximum depth of field.    Still image capture modes include 1600 x 1200, a 3:2 aspect ratio mode of 1600 x 1072, 1024 x 768 and 640 x 480 image sizes. It also captures 5, 10 or 15 second full motion video clips with sound in 320 x 240 HQ, 320 x 240 or 160 x 112 pixel modes.    The CD1000 uses much less compression than the FD95 (about 7:1 vs 18:1) in the JPEG modes and delivers a 1600 x 1200 image with a file size of about 900KB vs the FD95 at 330KB. The difference is immediately noticeable, especially when printing. For the ultimate quality there is now an uncompressed TIFF (~6MB!) mode. .