Great handy camera, but not quite perfect

Great handy camera, but not quite perfect

Sony DSC-WX350 digital camera (18 megapixel, 20x opt. Zoom, 7.5 cm (3 inch) LCD display, NFC, WiFi) (Electronics)

Customer Review

The Sony DSC-WX350 comes with USB cable, camera strap, adapter, which allows the loading on request directly from the wall outlet, a special handout that explains the WiFi access, and delivered a Getting Started manual in paper form. From the support page of the manufacturer can then still various software (including for the WiFi-functionality of the device) download. There you can find a help file that corresponds to a detailed user manual; but it is only available in web format and can not be downloaded. Such a thing I see here is actually the first time, I find that not only unusual, but also really bad, because I do not want to ever have to visit the manufacturer's website to find out more information about the operation, especially as the camera itself also not exactly cheap is.

The camera comes in plain black and therefore is actually for a camera with 20x optical zoom surprisingly compact and so very handy. About the optical zoom, you can by the way a magnification up to 40x to.

Disturbed from the outset that the big 3 'display with even less sunlight is barely readable. In fact, here the default setting of the device is just bad, but you can, as I soon found out, increase the screen brightness from the Adjust menu, which I did because even at maximum, with satisfactory results now.

The operating concept of the camera I find rather somewhat unusual because the user has here two levers on which he may organize: The wheel menu at the top of the camera on the one hand and on the other hand then additionally on everywhere else usual menu of a hub pressure point from. About the latter can be about flash, sequence mode, brightness, color and different visual effects set on the wheel you can choose between two automatic functions, a Scene Selection, the Panorama function, Program and film (here as is the possibility of Scene Selection for films such. Portrait mode , landscape or just select the default Auto). For Filmchendrehen there on the camera also has a larger, extra special button, which is great.

The zoom of the camera works well and quickly, and it blurred not too strong especially at high zoom factor. Overall, I find the statements made by me with this camera of very excellent quality. The default Automatic mode provides very good results, the preset scenes and motifs for the camera are varied and numerous, they make me very happy. With the automatic mode to shoot good pictures so really creates even every beginner. It is nice that left the camera on the display always indicates there, for which mode the automatic decides z. B. macro, portrait or landscape. The twisted movies convinced me by superior sound and picture quality, as outstanding I felt that you do not hear the same when playing zooming during filming.

Most excellent is the performance of the battery: I could turn over 350 pictures and some Sekundenfilmchen before he no longer wanted.

Transferring images via USB to the PC without any additional software worked very well, but can not delete from your PC easily, the pictures on the camera, they are in fact provided with erasure prevention; the problem I then resolved by I put on the camera's menu from the images and so again managed space. I really liked that the images are stored in folders that are automatically provided with the date on which they are created. Very clear!

In addition, the camera offers the feature to transfer images via WiFi on both smartphones (Android and iOS), TV as well as PC and notebook, however, a function to which I can do without personally.

Conclusion: Overall, a great, handy camera that delivers very good images and movies!

Update 1/10/2015:
An attentive user has pointed me in a comment that it actually is a manual in PDF format to the camera on the publisher's website in the meantime laudably. So a deleted my criticisms! Thank you for your comment Note!

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