We’ve just got fingers on with the touchscreen Sony Cyber-Shot TX1 compact snapper, stuffed with HD video and panoramic skills. Want to know if it hits the sweet spot? Read on and see!
As well as outing a new slate of Alpha DSLRs, Sony also droped new Cyber-shots this month, and topping the line was then 10.2 megapixel Sony Cyber-Shot TX1, which like Canon’s latest little’un, packs a touchscreen LCD (3-inches) to help you line up shots and slide through albums.
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The Sony Cyber-Shot TX1 isn’t just a gimmick though: Sony’s sewn in some handy extra software like Sweep Panorama mode, which stitches together shots at speed to give you a 256 degree field of vision.
A 4x optical zoom, nippy 10fps continuous shooting speed and 720p HD video at a dry cleaned shirt smooth 30fps round off the package in the Sony Cyber-Shot TX1, but how does it handle in the flesh?
Well, actually. Prodding the Sony Cyber-Shot TX1, we were struck by how well touch has been integrated – unlike Canon’s IXUS 200 IS, with which you couldn’t tell what were buttons and what were plain old icons. No such problems here, and the Sony Cyber-Shot TX1 gives us hope for touchscreen tech to become standard in compacts. Have a peep up close here in our hands-on gallery!
Out September | £330 | Sony
