Sony Cyber-shot TX9 Review
More: www.amazon.com The good: Speedy shooting performance; slim, stylish design; plenty of fun, useful features; very good low-light photo quality for its class. The bad: Soft photos, videos; poor battery life; 3D photos are of limited use. The bottom line: As long as image softness doesn’t bother you, the fast-shooting Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 is a quite capable camera for taking photos under a variety of conditions without much effort from the user. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 is very similar to the TX7 released earlier this year. It has the same 25mm-equivalent wide-angle lens, high-resolution 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD, and 1080i movie capture at 60 frames per second–all in a body that’s just 0.7 inch thick. It uses an Exmor R high-speed backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, too, but the TX9′s is 12 megapixels, up from the TX7′s 10. But that resolution bump would be a pretty lame reason to update a camera. No, the reasons to go with the TX9 have primarily to do with new shooting modes. These include two 3D-shooting modes as well as a Superior Auto mode, which combines all of the multishot modes found on previous Exmor R-based Cyber-shots and makes it so you don’t have to decide which will work best for your subject. Though the 3D stuff proved less exciting than we expected, the TX9 overall is a winner. If you’re looking for a stylish fully automatic ultracompact with a near-dizzying number of features and don’t mind paying for them, this is your camera. Available in dark …
