And because of mini dwarf Sony suggests users regarding image quality surprisingly good. If you look closely (ie, the pixel peept), then you can already see that the internal software properly working on the pictures. The fine detail work with a magnifying glass looking at often a bit like painting, especially with rising ISO values, high zoom and special designs, eg forest. But the overall result is impressive absolute, ie, good sharp and high-contrast images with beautiful colors. What also surprised me that it creates Sony that the mini-sensor despite the bloated 18 megapixels even in the dark still deliver usable images. Nighttime images with ISO 800 or even ISO 1600 are mostly still very presentable, to use even without the special night mode.
An absolute highlight for me is the HR Panorama. Thus one swings across in portrait orientation and get a 40 megapixel image (!) Which corresponds to the perspective of a super wide angle. Compared with my DSLR the final image corresponds vertically the point of view of a 18 mm focal length (related to KB), even 180 degrees horizontally. If it succeeds, the sharpness is really incredibly good, but by the technique requires strong Verzeichung and backlight sensitivity. Neither Alpha nor the 57 Fuji X20 have something similar on board. But takes practice because you have to swing very quickly and clean, otherwise the image is nothing.
The video quality is surprisingly good, including sound quality. Videos are (purely subjective), eg better than the Fuji X20. Bin even though more interested in photos.
On the camera, there is little to complain about. However, the bottom former minus point for some reason might be, the camera not to buy.
What bothers me (for 1 star deduction):
- The time between shots is much too long. Probably it is due to the extensive internal image processing, but between two shots go by about 2-3 seconds. If you want to prevent children or animals photograph, you have already missed the best moments when the first shot is not sitting. Alternatively, you can put on serial mode, the camera takes a maximum of 10 images in rapid succession. But until you have changed the, Located awareness is already over. I would not measure the camera to their size, I would prefer it even from 2-3 stars.
- After each shot can be for the same reason no longer zoom even 2-3 seconds
- The WX200 tends sometimes to over-exposure, especially when shooting high contrast, such as outdoors on a dark foreground and a bright sky. Then the dark foreground is itself too bright. However, you can even adjust the exposure to +/- 2 stops in automatic mode. In my case, a correction to minus 1 in the described situations was very helpful. Alternatively, one could turn in P mode to spot metering. Thus, the camera offers considerable scope for engagement.
- With strong backlight, for example from the low sun, occur very strange and unsightly flare. Some nice shots dispensed by (have uploaded corresponding photo)
- One can only either Unignore all beeps or not (only shutter sound is extra). I would very much like the sound when focusing, but do not like Pieper when I click on the menu.
- The display brightness has no automatic mode, but must be fixed.
- The shutter speed is displayed in front of the prints only in P mode. In automatic you can see only the aperture value (the among small snapping eh hardly significance)
- For battery life I can not say anything definite. Since I have to wait a few charging cycles. However, I have found the same times on flight mode, as I suspect that the WLAN will unnecessarily draw current when I do not need it.
My conclusion: for what has the WX200 in the mini-size, it is without competition. Who puts on fast image sequence or pixel fidelity value, will have to look for another camera.
I have uploaded some sample images. However, are only visible when the black WX200.
